This is really good. I’ve seen recreations before but the attention to detail made this delightful to use. Agree with some of the other points that you’re recreating a design that already exists but it’s evident you spent some effort on this even with the help of AI (which was disclosed in the AUTHOR command in command prompt, thank you!)
Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
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#282Looks and feels solid. Only issue I noticed off the bat is that scrolling isn't working in Chrome on Android. Also, idk if it's an issue with mobile Chrome but the address bar doesn't drop down.
Will check out the chrome scrolling on android, is that in the my projects app?
Sadly the address bar does not drop down haha Maybe one day
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#283It’s neat: I like it a lot actually. But the problem with you billing yourself as a graphic designer and reimplementing Windows XP is that you’re copying a design that already exists rather than showcasing your own design skills, so I can’t immediately tell how good a designer you are[0]. I can look at your projects under the IE icon, which gives more of an impression, but some of the visuals there do look decidedly…
This was my concern too - as a little project, it's interesting but if it's a replica of XP it has been done before and much more accurately. As a portfolio, I think it doesn't work at all and is detrimental to what you're trying to do. I think now in design, it is more important than ever for your work to cut through the noise and show at least some attempt to create something original. I think sometimes graphic des…
I think now in design, it is more important than ever for your work to cut through the noise and show at least some attempt to create something original.
From what I've seen, at least half of design work is "make it look like x" where x may be "glass", "CRT effect" or "BigCo's design language".
This project looks like some light-hearted fun and demonstrates an ability to achieve a desired look. You seem to be looking for someone doing greenfield design work for a large advertising agency.
I see nothing in your profile that indicates any expertise in design, so it's really bold of you to level this kind of criticism at someone's project.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're still working on this, you can add a "Pedantry mode" ou "Really faithful" switch that turns some of the suggestions on. It could work as a way to show that you're really aware of the shortcomings of the first implementation without messing too much with what you've got already done. And it can also work as a way to show some kind of "appreciation" for the feedback you're getting here.. Personally, I've used…
Nothings off the table so maybe I’ll look into that eventually! Before that id probably go the other way and allow the viewing of a basic single page basic portfolio haha Maybe styled like a word doc or something
Go hardcore and render the word doc in HTML jspdf style
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#285hey i saw this a while ago on /r/vibecoding . Looks even better now .
thanks dude!
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#286Great job! Working on mobile is really a nice touch!
Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
#287It’s neat: I like it a lot actually. But the problem with you billing yourself as a graphic designer and reimplementing Windows XP is that you’re copying a design that already exists rather than showcasing your own design skills, so I can’t immediately tell how good a designer you are[0]. I can look at your projects under the IE icon, which gives more of an impression, but some of the visuals there do look decidedly…
I would hire this guy he stands out from the competition! He has tenacity, grit and more creativity then the majority. So much more creativity that multi thousands of HN(ers) have enjoyed his creation, their friends and tech journalists who some will write about it showing his work to many more thousands to millions. Getting a job isnt easy now but being like this guy will no doubt make it easy to get many offers!
Ive been needing to update my portfolio site as in August an out of nowhere opportunity knocked on my door. Seeing this makes me want to innovate my portfolio for said opportunity(thanks for the inspiration).
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#288Well it kinda feels like the optimal example of "if you cant make it good make it look good".
While, if the author reached its goal and is happy about it, thats fair and fine - tho for me as a former webdev looking at the source and how its build well it basically yells AI... and absolutly not in a good way....
If you really want to learn coding - put the AI aside and learn it by yourself. You may use AI to search for documentations and stuff, but dont try to learn coding style/sturcturing from it ... because its very bad at it.
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
In an alternate timeline where malware never existed and Apple had gone out of business in the 90s, all portfolios , presentations, and resumes would be packaged as .exe files as a de facto standard. It’s a great and flexible exchange format!
I often fantasize about this, late at night. That exe rule the world. You can have portable document formats inside exe (or nix binary) that contains its own reader. The glory days of self-extracting zip archives achieve the ultimate realization of their lofty ideals.
Add to this the ability to make it cross-platform executable[1] that has no dependencies to get the perfect file format.
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#290hey haha I tried to post this a few weeks ago but my post didn't go through - i'm glad you guys are enjoying it! edit: I'm new here! let me get some of that sweet sweet karma!
>> let me get some of that sweet sweet karma! You are going to be a wealthy man very soon now from all that karma.
I wonder why his karma is less than the points of the post. doesn't karma follow the total points of one's posts and comments?