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I'm having the same thoughts. It's okay to have a couple of small side projects on the resume (I do), but for showing off real skills you would need a complete product which basically means starting your own business, at least in terms of time and effort

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Dont show some vibe coded hobby scripts. Show that you know how to build software AND how software engineering works. So build a small application that that shows you understood some basic architecture principles like oo, seperation of concerns etc. Then add a CI CD pipeline and Docker Images to show that you also have thought about deployments on production systems.

That still doesn’t show operating at scale - unless the business gains a lot of users.

It shows that you understand the fundamental concepts required for scaling in the first place

“Understanding” really doesn’t mean much without experience with actually working at scale.

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