LinkedIn right now is wall-to-wall "Software Engineer | Full Stack Developer | AI Enthusiast | Open to Work" — and almost none of it tells you anything. A title is not proof you can build something. It's not proof you can ship something. It's definitely not proof you can be trusted with someone else's product.
So here's a simple idea instead of another opinion post: show the app, not the title.
The rule
Drop a comment with:
- A live link — it has to actually work when someone clicks it right now.
- One line on what it does and who it's for.
- Your stack.
That's it. No "I'm a passionate developer" preamble, no CV, no "DM me." Just the proof.
If you don't have a deployed project yet, you still belong here. Drop what you're currently building, even unfinished, even with zero users — a personal project, something from a course that you extended yourself, whatever you're actually working on right now. The bar isn't "impressive," it's "real and yours." This is meant to surface actual work at every stage, not just finished products with traction.
What counts
This is for work you actually built — not a tutorial clone with your name swapped in, not a Figma mockup with no backend. It can be small. It can be in progress. It can have zero users. It just has to be something you're genuinely building or shipped yourself, not a copy-paste.
If it's not live anymore, say so and link a video walkthrough instead — that's fine, dead links aren't.
Why I think this is worth doing
I'm a solo full-stack developer myself, and I'm tired of scrolling past the same recycled "10 tips to become a 10x developer" carousel to find literally anyone showing actual work. The signal-to-noise ratio on tech LinkedIn right now is bad, and it's bad in both directions:
- For developers at every stage — from someone learning their first framework to someone who's shipped ten products — your work is buried under personal branding and titles that say nothing. This isn't about ranking who's "more real." It's about making it possible to find actual work at all, whatever stage it's at.
- For recruiters and founders, there's no fast way to see what someone can actually do, versus how well they write about themselves.
A thread where the currency is a real link — finished or not, big or small — fixes both problems at once. You can't fake something that actually exists.
For recruiters and anyone hiring
If you're looking for a solo full-stack developer — someone who can own a project front to back — this is a faster filter than a hundred LinkedIn profiles. You'll see everything from early-career developers actively building, to people with years of deployed, real-world products. Judge the actual work directly instead of a résumé describing it.
Keeping it going
I'll post this as a LinkedIn thread and keep it pinned. Reply with your project any time — this isn't a one-day thing, it's meant to keep collecting real, live work so it's still useful a month from now, not just for the first 48 hours.
If you've got something real — shipped or still in progress — drop it below. Link, what it does, stack. Let's see what people are actually building, at every stage.
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Going first — here's my real, deployed work:
Notions Promos — notionspromos.com/
Multi-tenant promotion platform running 5 country-specific campaigns simultaneously (Dubai duty-free, Kazakhstan and others), each with its own unique QR registration cycle. Combined 1.5M+ registrations across campaigns so far, with new campaigns starting as new product batches go to market.
Stack: React, Node.js, MongoDB
Leisurery — leisurery.com/
Booking engine built for the Sri Lankan market.
Stack: Next.js (frontend), Node.js (separate API backend)
AskLeya — askleya.io/
SaaS AI chat assistant platform I run — my main product.
Stack: Next.js, Node.js
Notions Group — notionsgroup.com/
Corporate site for a Dubai-based food manufacturer, migrated from a React SPA to Next.js.
Stack: Next.js, React
AAAC — aaac.ae/
Corporate site for a UAE chartered accountancy firm.
Stack: React
Chocodate — chocodate.com/
Brand site for Chocodate, a Dubai-based confectionery brand founded in 1992, now sold in over 70 countries.
Stack: React
This is just the public-facing half. I've also built a number of internal platforms and client projects under NDA that I can't link here — happy to describe them in general terms if it's relevant.
Solo/lead developer on all of these. Happy to answer questions on any of them.