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Sylvia Pap
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Standing out in a job application / Twitter clone project using React

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Hello dev community! I am humbly asking for your time and attention and potentially retweets. This isn't really a tutorial or super technical post, so I hope I'm not being spammy here.

I applied to a twitter swe apprenticeship, and there's an application question 'tell us your life story in tweets.' It's just a basic text box/essay question situation, this wasn't required at all, but I'm really trying to do the whole 'standing out' and maybe 'getting a job after going viral' kind of thing, so I made this twitter clone of my 'life story':

https://sylviapap-futuretwitterapprentice.netlify.app/

I think someone was hired by Airbnb after going semi viral for making an Airbnb clone that was like her resume as a vacation destination? Link coming soon. I have like 70 followers on twitter so by 'going viral' I mean honestly anything more than 10 likes.

Here's my tweet if you are so inclined to RT:

But I'm only asking, if you look at this, and you genuinely enjoy it, throw me a like/comment/RT! No free lunch. And if you don't like it, please tell me why! The application submission is due in a day so the whole thing was a little rushed, but I can obviously keep editing forever and use it as a nice portfolio/beginner project regardless. So I'm also posting this to get feedback - on the code and content and everything!

But first here are some obvious problems I acknowledge:

  • No actual Twitter functionality (i.e. being able to like, share tweet) lol
  • No backend at all in fact (i.e. might add basic 'like' functionality first, then backend/data persistence, but currently have neither)
  • Search bar should at least refresh the page on submit
  • Might add some kind of 'info' or home page describing the project
  • I chose to make it chronological order (or would you call this reverse chron? idk but oldest on top) because it seemed to make the most sense to me, story/creativity-wise, but obv I recognize this is not how actual twitter works lol
  • It's more or less 'good enough' on mobile, but doesn't look like the actual Twitter mobile browser version, uses some hacky 'hide on mobile' css
  • Overall just messy code tbh. I combined a lot of existing tutorials' CSS. Did the whole thing in less than a day tho
  • I tried to be funny/just the right amount of political. If you don't think I'm funny and/or you think anything in here is unprofessional - i will fight you please tell me but let me down easy :'(

Finally here's my repo:
https://github.com/sylviapap/twitter-clone

Thanks for your time!!!!

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weisk

Thats a cool approach to the challenge! And very funny. However yeah, i dont know what the requirements for that are but, yeah it could use some easy css love!

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weisk • Edited

Then, to answer your points...

No actual Twitter functionality (i.e. being able to like, share tweet) lol

so what? this, if implemented properly, is a fantastic display of: funny idea, quick execution, beautifuly crafted (again, give it some more css love)

Search bar should at least refresh the page on submit

start by making it nice to the eyes, which I think was your intent, but focus on mobile...

Might add some kind of 'info' or home page describing the project I chose to make it chronological order (or would you call this reverse chron? idk but oldest on top) because it seemed to make the most sense to me, story/creativity-wise, but obv I recognize this is not how actual twitter works lol

yeah.. You can say that the reason is you not implementing a twitter news feed, but a twitter story tell. But even better, why don't you just sort them the same way (last item on top), but make the container on load scrolled to the bottom?

I tried to be funny/just the right amount of political. If you don't think I'm funny and/or you think anything in here is unprofessional - i will fight you please tell me but let me down easy :'(

Well, a little bit of humour is fine and even beneficial I would say. But what are you trying to prove to them? That you are super funny, or that you fuckin rock' the code?

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weisk

Well. the first thing I would do is at least make it look good on mobile... like...
can you tell which one is the real twitter??

what