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Anmol Baranwal on August 06, 2024

As developers, we are often confused about which type of projects we should build for our portfolios. That is why Iā€™m covering 17 iconic projects ...
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Marcus

These aren't project ideas, these are tool recommendations.

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Anmol Baranwal

I know a lot of people including developers think that tools are not side projects.

But they are actually projects like resume builder, SQL translator, Instrukt, CodeSnap, DevHub and 10,000+ themes... (from this list). Technically, they don't have a very large codebase and even SAAS are project ideas yk.

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Garrett / G66

Are you suggesting we use these tools or we build clones of these tools?

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Anmol Baranwal

Clones are fine, but you can build something similar and take it further. For example, you can use random color generation to change themes from 10k+ themes. Each one is unique from Matcha.css to Documenso.

Use it as inspiration and build something unique because there are already too many clones of popular projects which doesn't make a strong impression.

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Technica

Awesome article! We'd love to be on your radar for future lists, we've created a platform that lets developers create a portfolio very easily. Would love to hear your thoughts, or even better, get featured! (technica.dev/)

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Anmol Baranwal

It's a great tool, but I would recommend adding a landing page to build credibility. I'm aware there is a sample but a few sections explaining what's under the hood would be helpful.
By the way, I focus only on covering open source projects :)

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Technica

Thanks a lot for the feedback Anmol! Much appreciated!

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Rebeccca Peltz

Thanks for the article - lots of great tools! I tried the Copilot Kit but was unable to connect to the copilotkit.ai cloud. I get a 500 error connecting to https://cloud.copilotkit.ai/?ref=docs&session_id=01912fda-4c48-7f2d-acab-198039a62518. (clicking on the blue button). I love to see this working.

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Anmol Baranwal

You can join the Discord server where the team will handle all the problems you face. The cloud version needs access as far as I remember so just join the server.

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Dumebi Okolo

Aha! The list I need! Thank you for sharing.

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks Dumebi šŸ™Œ

People are often confused about unique projects so I thought covering some unique ones might help :)

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Martin Baun

Suuuuuch gems here!
I think goleko would be great to manage these projects :)

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for sharing Martin.
Do you have any plans to go open source?
It would accelerate your development cycle if you can manage to get contributors.

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Martin Baun

Currently, it's in the works. Thanks for the tip man :)

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Yahaya Oyinkansola • Edited

Thanks for sharing this list, ot was really insightful, especially about OpenAlternative, there are so many tools in the software development eco system someone can use and experiment with to build projects, it's astounding!

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Anmol Baranwal

Yes, it's a great way to find open source alternatives to software. That's where I found Documenso and used it for a couple of projects. We cannot imagine the world without open source. :)

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LevĆ­ Arista

Such a nice collection here. Thank you!! šŸ‘

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Jotty John

Interesting article.

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Antonio | CEO at Litlyx.com

This is amazing value added like always anmol. Thanks for your work!

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for reading Antonio šŸ™Œ

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Zachary Loeber

Fun list, thanks!

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mohamed karim

Thank for sharing

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Ferguson

šŸ˜‡ Great one

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uliyahoo

Awesome list for any developer building up their portfolio!

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks Uli šŸ™Œ

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Jeremiah

As always, a well-researched list. Great work Anmol!

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Anmol Baranwal

Thank you for reading, Jeremiah šŸ™Œ
I always research and use my dev journey to create original value, so it feels great to receive support from community members like you.

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Ansh Saini • Edited

This is a great list!

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Kiran Naragund

Amazing Anmol!
Thanks for sharing

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for reading Kiran šŸ™Œ

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David Asaolu

These are great tools, Anmol! šŸ”„

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks David šŸ™Œ
There is nothing more exciting than coding something useful and showing it to the world :)

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This is absolute GOLD. Thank a milly

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James

Cool projects

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks James šŸ™Œ

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Harry

Very frontend heavy list

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Anmol Baranwal

I'm more focused on frontend, so I must have included projects based on intuition.
I'm sure you will find projects on all tech stacks :)

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Harshith Mullapudi

Hey, we are building opensource project management in typescript github.com/tegonhq/tegon. You can check it here