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"Why I Don’t Have a Portfolio"

Elvis Sautet on January 04, 2025

Let me guess your excuse: “I’ve been too busy with client work.” Oh, so busy you can't spend 2 hours showcasing how “busy” you are? Nice flex, ...
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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

I don't have a portfolio because they're really not necessary. All the best developers I've hired have not had one, and a large percentage of the ones who did have a portfolio site were some of the weakest candidates.

Any hiring team that knows what they're doing will place little weight on a portfolio site (unless it's something truly interesting and original).

An active, interesting and unvarnished GitHub/Gitlab/whatever account will tell them FAR more about the candidate than a curated vanity portfolio site ever could.

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

It's also important not to confuse finding a job with finding a client as a freelancer: The bakery around the corner looking to improve its website might care much more about reference projects; a company looking for a new developer will look at vastly different things and, unless you're coming from a freelancing background, you probably won't have any work projects to show off anyway.

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Dragoș

your portofolio looks just awesome. but i want to point out that the modal asking about what i'm there for re-opens annoyingly, even if i close it it still pops up. also, you have 2 close icons on the same modal.

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Elvis Sautet

Thank you, have you tried to select an option, and proceed, please let me know

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Dragoș

no, i just visited to take a look, i dont want to select any option cause none suits me.

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Elvis Sautet

Oww okay, let me fix that, thank you for your feedback

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Boopathi

Makes sense. Building a portfolio takes effort, but it's an investment worth making and I have checked your's it was just incredible :)

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • Edited

Do yourself a massive favour and switch back to your old portfolio.

It's pleasant to look at, has a sense of professionalism and is super simple to navigate. The important information is easily visible and it takes next to no mental effort to find all the important info. The only thing that's a bit unpleasant about it is the contrast of the text to the background image, but that's an easy fix.

The new portfolio feels extremely cluttered. The code box on the right draws way too much attention, specially being animated. The annoying modal that repeatedly opens on its own would normally make me immediately close any website. The close button on that is broken, by the way.

It's just over-filled with toy-features that are technically cool, but make the finished website a pain to use. If you want to show off those things, have a section linking to your favourite codepens, or simply let your previous projects speak for themselves.

If you want a great portfolio, build a better project showcase for your old portfolio, with more screenshots and stuff, and call it a day.

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James 'Dante' Midzi • Edited

Agreed.

Also, it needs padding on the left edges, and the pop up that keeps showing up is annoying

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Saurabh Rai

I want ....

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You to complete your portfolio 💼

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CaesyDev

I want

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Dias Utsman

ほしい

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Athreya aka Maneshwar

Hey Elvis it's pretty slick, wishing you good :)

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Munib

I want

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abhilash mohanty

I want your complete portfolio

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Niharika Sahu

i want