Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects • Hacker News Board

Re: Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects

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Post by zooso » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 10:22 PM UTC

Raphmedia wrote: post #8

zooso wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. We were actually debating this for a while :) Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it.

If you really must use them, make them at least 80% width and height and change the opacity of the black overlay from 0.81 to 0.6. Have the purple header snap to the top, and have it slim down to something like 20px height and hide the title when you are scrolled down. http://snag.gy/LKED2.jpg vs http://snag.gy/ROfRO.jpg Also, test those things on mobile. Modals are tricky on mobile.

Thank you again. This feedback is really helpful.

Re: Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects

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Post by itsybitsycoder » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 10:33 PM UTC

It's a cool idea, but I'm not sure I would want to start one of the projects when none of the outlines are actually finished. Looks like there are 4 different courses but each one is only 25% done, so there's not a lot of meat there yet.

Re: Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects

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Post by cyxxon » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 10:45 PM UTC

This looks really interesting - especially since I am wondering where I want to take my career. I have studied CS and worked as a SAP CRM consultant for approximately ten years now, but always hang around sites like this one... and am getting more and more frustrated with the environment in which most stuff in my line of work happens (mid sized businesses in risk-averse sectors which see IT as a boring tool to sell whatever they produce). I had already wondered how I can polish my CV with more modern technologies, and this just seems to fit really well :)

Re: Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects

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Post by coolanymous » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 10:51 PM UTC

itsybitsycoder wrote: post #12

It's a cool idea, but I'm not sure I would want to start one of the projects when none of the outlines are actually finished. Looks like there are 4 different courses but each one is only 25% done, so there's not a lot of meat there yet.

Thank you for your feedback. We have just launched our startup and wanted to get feedback from the HackerNews community. We will be completing the roadmap for those projects and add more in other areas.

Re: Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects

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Post by ARCarr » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 10:53 PM UTC

coralreef wrote: post #10

This is pretty cool and seems like something I would use. However the design aesthetics simply aren't up to par for me. The colour choices and font choices are not great.

Too many colors and the text is tiny in boxes that are too big.

Re: Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects

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Post by zooso » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 10:55 PM UTC

cyxxon wrote: post #13

This looks really interesting - especially since I am wondering where I want to take my career. I have studied CS and worked as a SAP CRM consultant for approximately ten years now, but always hang around sites like this one... and am getting more and more frustrated with the environment in which most stuff in my line of work happens (mid sized businesses in risk-averse sectors which see IT as a boring tool to sell w…

This scenario is one of the main reasons we are doing this. We would love to talk to you more and see where we can help. I would really appreciate it if you could email me at alif@zyring.com so we can talk more.