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Comment by kemyd | Hacker News Reader

As stated in the first paragraph, the article is for the beginners. From my observation, they focus too much on adding next courses from Udemy, or making a clone of app X, instead of trying to build something more significant that they will want to use. I recruited dozens of novice developers and after seeing the same cv, with the same examples, I know that they have little or no chance to stand out.

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You still don't get it. The guy was lucky enough to build an app for his country that got extreme attention back in 2007 and sold it for 154 millions. Trust me, from that day there's not a single company that would be skeptical about him cause everyone's think he's sone kind of a Rock Star Dev for what he did.

I wrote this article :) I sold to Gadu-Gadu my bot for pennies. Owners of Gadu-Gadu sold the network to the Naspers. It did not have anything common with my small project (my bot had ~2k users when I sold it. Gadu-Gadu network had 11 million). They did not even buy it from me to work on it further. I edited the original paragraph because it could be misunderstood.

Creating something significant is certainly a good idea, but is also not easy at the same time. Standing out is certainly hard. Standing out by a meaningful creation, is in my opinion very hard and needs much work and luck. Only very few novice developers will fall into that category. I would not expect to recruit such people on a regular basis.

For instance, in my case, it's very clear that my CV weights much more than my creations on Github, if they weight something at all.

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