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Discussion on: How to build a side project that will impress future employers

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elisabethgross

Thanks! I totally agree. My favorite part of being an engineer is the ability I have to create with just a laptop in front of me. When you put a couple of us together, plus some good friends and mediocre ideas, the stars are the limit.

In terms of sub-components that could themselves be a product. Absolutely! Each company's scraper class is a bit of a subcomponent and one of our ideas was to really open source this and let other people add to the scraper library. Anyone interested in getting involved? Let me know!

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zakwillis

Hi Elisabeth, I have written my own scraping engine. On top of HTML Agility Pack and ScrapySharp.

inforhino.co.uk/innovation

Am not quite at the stage of selling this through my limited company as it underpins the processing framework for my property platform, but am thinking of launching other deployment/processing applications on this framework very soon.

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elisabethgross

Nice!! I'll be sure to check it out