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Ask HN: Where do you keep your programming portfolio?

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I started and launched quite a few cool projects. Some of them had interesting front-end things to show, but since I'm a programmer the back-end usually had more focus. I started to realized that it would be a shame if these projects go offline and everyone just forgets about it. I think it's a good idea to keep a list of the cool projects that I did, with a description of what makes it interesting.

The problem is that I haven't been able to find a free portfolio website for programmers. I'd love to just create a profile somewhere, add a few projects, write something about them, etc. I could set up my own website, but I don't want to pay for hosting costs and domain name costs for just my portfolio. The existing portfolio sites are aimed towards designers, not programmers.

I could keep track of my projects on LinkedIn, but I don't want to clutter my LinkedIn page with all sorts of projects, plus the LinkedIn projects feature isn't really flexible (for example: I want to show a screenshot, thats not possible with linkedin).

Does anyone know a good place where I can do this?

If you are willing to share the source code for these projects, I think the canonical answer (at least in 2013) is to use Github as your portfolio page.

I don't think that's a good solution. Not all code is open source, and I might want to write 1 post about different projects (for example: I created a WP, Android and iOS for the same thing).

Wouldn't that be an interesting business opportunity? While both Github and Bitbucket offer privat repositories both free and paid, non of them can be shared or viewed without additional accounts and management.

If one could host or upload repositories which are private but can be viewed read-only by the means of a password, or a passphrase shared via mail, that would be great.

Although I wonder if a recruiter would even go trough the hassle of entering a password you provided on your resume.

Well, based on my experience with recruiters they don't even go through the hassle of even reading your resume.

I think $20/month for hosting is pretty small if it's a business expense that helps you win new clients. But if that is really too much, then you could use Github Pages (free) or a Wordpress blog with a "portfolio" page (free or cheap). But careers last a long time, so I'd buy a domain name and start building a web presence for yourself. You'll have the most flexibility if you pay for a VPS rather than going the WP/GP route. I haven't done anything particularly outstanding to create my own "web presence," but for what it's worth here is my own portfolio page:

http://illuminatedcomputing.com/portfolio

Well, it's not really going to help me get any clients, I'm working on a consumer-based startup right now, and those consumers don't give a damn about the projects that I did in the past. But I do, I want to keep track of the things that I've done :)

I'm drawing a blank on the website name but someone around here has an awesome start up for this with a great UI.

Found it!

http://hoverboard.io/

Looks pretty cool :) I don't like the resume thing because I'm already tracking that on LinkedIn and I don't want to duplicate this, but the project part might be interesting.

Not just cool, this is beautiful - how could I miss this before? Thanks for the suggestion.

i am using github pages: pages.github.com It is free and it is easy to setup

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