Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects

The landing page really needs to do a much better job of explaining what this does and who it&#x27;s for, preferably with some visual examples of whatever it is that it does viewable without a requirement for signing up.<p>Right now, I basically have no idea what this is - is it something like Dribbble but for programming? Or is it more like oDesk? Who comes up with the applications? Who does the code reviews? Et cetera. Nearly every sentence of copy is ambiguous.

At first I thought this is an article with tips to build a portfolio. Then I thought ah, they help me publish my stuff, like dribble or behance. Then I arrived at the node.js setup page and I closed it.<p>I recently started to update my GitHub profile for the same reason and created my username.github.io page with a simple landing that summarizes my interesting repos. My point is that the need is definitely there, but I think the message of the site is &quot;if you have zero imagination how to show off that you can code, here are some projects for you&quot;.

I find the focus on building portfolios frustrating. Mostly what I&#x27;ve seen it accomplish is people writing dumb scripts that don&#x27;t do anything particularly useful or basic web apps that would never be useful for anything beyond the toy case the author came up with. That&#x27;s not to knock building small programs like these to develop skills or become familiar with a new library, but it&#x27;s hardly an adequate way of showing your mastery of programming. I&#x27;d be much more impressed by one large, interesting project than by a bunch of small, pointless ones.

As someone who is hiring right now for a front-end position I really really hope this takes off. Far too many people have no realistic or publicly available code. Even for the back-end positions we&#x27;re hiring for it would be awesome to see a custom implementation of something like to-do app.

I&#x27;ve noticed people will look at it if you really have their attention, say an employer who is inclined to give you a job.<p>Having a site talk about requirements is useful. A lot of the times I don&#x27;t know about features or needs in a system until someone told me.<p>20-30 minutes talking with an engineer and whiteboarding a solution to a site helped me along immensely towards a solution that had more meat on it.

Work for free and don&#x27;t get paid, because, hey! You&#x27;ll get tons of experience and build your portfolio. Now on a crowd-source scale! Sucker!

Very similar to <a href="https://code4startup.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code4startup.com&#x2F;</a> but for a slightly different purpose.

Quick Q, probably not something you were expecting.<p>But, how do you, at least internally, pronounce your name&#x2F;URL?<p>ZeeRing? Like &quot;He Ring&quot;<p>ZaiRing? like &quot;Hi Ring&quot;<p>ZiRing? Like &quot;Zirring&quot;.

Saw Angular, closed tab.

Hmm... there doesn&#x27;t seem to be anything there <a href="http://i.imgur.com/2a9kUiu.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;2a9kUiu.png</a><p>I like the idea and aim of the site but was it really necessary to make it completely unviewable without JavaScript? What ever happened to progressive enhancement?