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JC Smiley
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Tracking your technical skills and career, Level Up Dev app

This is an app that helps developers visually track their technical skills and career progression. AKA, a how-to model of leveling up your inner developer to the best version of yourself. In today’s job market, you can’t just learn skills. Starting a career requires a combination of projects and experiences that demonstrate those skills.

What is this:

  • Map of what you plan to learn, build, and experience.
  • Vision Board of your accomplishments
  • Career guide that is adaptable enough to change over time and clearly show what’s next.

Sceenshot of Progress page

Tech Stack

Level Up Dev has been developed with Next.js/Tailwind, unit test with Jest, and deployed using Netlify as a proof of concept. Future versions will integrate Netlify functions and Sanity.io headless CMS as a backend service.

Functionality

  • Display, by category, what you want and what you have accomplished.

Screenshot of the Skills section

  • Nothing says “I ROCK” like a visual collage of wins in chronological order.

Screenshot of timeline

  • Simple 1-2 steps to add what you want to learn, build, or experience.

Wizard to add a skill

  • Quick wizard to confirm your achievement.

Wizard to confirm a skill is learned

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Michael Tharrington

Nice! This seems like a cool and helpful app, JC. Good stuff! 🙌

Is this open for folks to download and use themselves? If so, I'm curious if ya have a link you could share!

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Michael Tharrington

Awesome! I'll check it out. 🙌