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What are your favorite portfolio sites for devs?

Monica Macomber on February 07, 2020

I'm looking for some portfolio site inspiration! I'd love to see your favorite sites by other developers or or even even your own site if you're happy with it.

My site is overdue for a refresh and the hardest part for me is always deciding on a design. It would be great to have some more ideas.

Monica Macomber • Feb 7 '20 • Edited

My favorite so far is brittanychiang.com. I like the way the content is structured, I like the dark theme, I like the monochrome color scheme and she has some really tasteful animations.

I don't love that you have to wait for a loading animation but maybe it's worth the impact of the site.

colender • Feb 7 '20

I love the feel of this site and the design I love the feel of a terminal.

Anand-Baraik • Feb 7 '20

Loved this portfolio. What are tech stacks of this site. @monica saltar

Karey Higuera • Feb 11 '20

Built on GatsbyJS, here's her github repo: github.com/bchiang7/v4

Anand-Baraik • Feb 12 '20

Thanks 😊

Monica Macomber • Feb 7 '20

Not sure, but her page has a link to the site's github that should give you some info.

Henry Quinn • Sep 28 '20

Check out the browser extension Wappalyzer.

Mike • Feb 7 '20

Oh wow that is super cool

qws_ • Feb 7 '20 • Edited

These are pretty cool...

bruno-simon.com/

rleonardi.com/

seanhalpin.io/

mazentouati.github.io/

gyrosco.pe/aprilzero/zero/

Rodrigo • Feb 7 '20

WOW! Bruno Simon took it to a next level.

Kyle Stephens • Feb 9 '20

OMG. That is incredible. That guy has serious skills.

Mike • Feb 7 '20

W. T. F. amazing

Robert • Feb 9 '20

Dayum Bruno Simon is so good

Oziel Perez • May 14 '20 • Edited

Bruno's site is god-like! However, I'm going to say this lacks some user experience as it requires you to navigate around with a car when sometimes people just want to look at your work without gimmicks. In other words, this site works best if you're solely a game developer, but if you're looking to get employers to look at your resume to decide if they want to hire you for a quick project, there's a chance that they will give up halfway trying to navigate the car around.

I'm sorry guys, 10/10 on web skills but 4/10 on content organization; just trying to call it as I see it. Also, my Macbook Pro overheated just trying to drive the car D:

eddex • May 19 '20

You can also navigate with the mouse (click and drag). But this isn't explained anywhere as far as I've seen.

Panda Quests • May 17 '20

My thoughts exactly. Cool game. But bad portfolio page

LyAVALE95 • Feb 11 '20 • Edited

Bruno's portafolio is amazing!!!

Also Roby's portafolio, so colorfull, I loved it <3

AWEMA - TA • Mar 2 '20

After see , i asking myself if one day i really can do something look like this ...

Ben Halpern • Feb 7 '20

benhalpern.com

Serhat Teker • Apr 22 '20 • Edited

fyi: Ben your site throws a certificate error:

SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

https://benhalpern.com/



Unable to communicate securely with peer: requested domain name does not match the server’s certificate.

HTTP Strict Transport Security: false

HTTP Public Key Pinning: false

Monica Macomber • Feb 8 '20

😂 impressive

Panda Quests • May 17 '20 • Edited

Best retro page I've seen. Lol

Joan Henry • Feb 11 '20 • Edited

jhenry081.github.io — my portfolio

Victor Mbamara 🇳🇬 • May 16 '20

if you designed that, then you're not aspiring.

Pachi 🥑 • Feb 7 '20

I got overwhelmed looking for inspiration 😂 so in the end I went with simple
pachi.dev

Monica Macomber • Feb 11 '20

Ha, looks good!

Sometimes simple is a good call 👍 In the past I would get caught up in these Big Awesome Ideas and then burnout because I didn't know when to let it go lol

Pachi 🥑 • Feb 11 '20

That is definitely a great point!

Dallas Reedy • Feb 10 '20

Nailed it!

Pachi 🥑 • Feb 10 '20

Thanks!

Anh Hoang Nguyen • Feb 13 '20

zach.dev/

Monica Macomber • Feb 13 '20

Woah, that is impressive

Andy Smith • Feb 12 '20

I recently redesigned my portfolio website to be more minimalist as it was very busy and ugly before. I'm quite happy with how it turned out!

andysmith.me

Monica Macomber • Feb 12 '20

Nice! I like your experience page, looks good and it's easy to see the important info at a glance 👍

I noticed you don't have projects listed like most people do, how come? Has anyone had an issue with that? Asking bc I might do the same, I'm not able to share my work projects from the last few years.

Andy Smith • Feb 12 '20

Thanks! Really appreciate the feedback

Honestly though, I don't know why I didn't add a projects page as my previous design had them. I think it's definitely good to include though if you do have them or are able to share them

Tuna Çağlar Gümüş • Feb 7 '20 • Edited

Devs

zainamro.com/ *minimalism in its core.

my fav kickscondor.com/

eggfreckles.net/ *apple messagepad

jackmcdade.com/

linkdot.link/ very interesting one

Not devs but be sure to check these out.

qws_ • Feb 8 '20

The first one (zainamro.com) couldn't be more minimalistic than that, haha!

Tuna Çağlar Gümüş • Feb 8 '20

Brutalist more than minimalistic :)

qws_ • Feb 8 '20

I literally sat waiting for it to load 😅

Tuna Çağlar Gümüş • Feb 8 '20

😁

Monica Macomber • Feb 7 '20

Lol Jack McDade's home page looks like the title of an action movie he stars in.

Kyle Stephens • Feb 7 '20 • Edited

AmeliaWattenberger.com - the site really invites you to play with the awesome visualisations. Great work from Amelia.

Monica Macomber • Feb 7 '20

Wow she has a ton of content too!

Will Matz • Feb 15 '20

My friends and I found that it took too long to build portfolio sites... so we teamed up and instead built a site that makes your portfolio for you.

Still under development, but here's my portfolio: joinhelm.com/portfolio/5d6c7f9c19e...

kaimckinney • Feb 15 '20 • Edited

Helm is cool! as someone who does more casual side projects, it's a lot easier to build a portfolio here than doing a custom portfolio site. Seeing other projects is also helpful

Benjamin Raffetseder • Feb 8 '20

alexacea.com
davidhellmann.com
michael-schultz.at -> this is my best friend
benjamin-raffetseder.com -> and my portfolio (I'll relaunch it in a few days/weeks)

Monica Macomber • Feb 10 '20

I like your site, it's simple but the overlayed text, staggered callouts and font choices keep it interesting 👌

Benjamin Raffetseder • Feb 11 '20 • Edited

Thanks, I currently work on a polished version of it, with some font changes and improvements. I also want to leave the old CMS behind and build it more modern.

I think, I usually redesign my site every six months or something like that. 😅

I'm glad you liked it! I'm also pretty interested with what you going to come up with!(:

Gabriel Felippe • Feb 7 '20

I like this one a lot: caferati.me/ by Rafael

Endy Tjahjono • Feb 7 '20

Sarah Drasner's website of course!

Monica Macomber • Feb 7 '20

I haven't seen that yet, thanks!

Anurag Hazra • Feb 8 '20

Nothing compared to all other awesome portfolios but here's another one

anuraghazra.github.io

Filipe Herculano • Feb 12 '20

I recently came across James Long and he has a pretty neat animation on his site jlongster.com/

But my overall favourite still is Jake Albaugh jakealbaugh.com/

Louis Low • Sep 29 '20 • Edited

The portfolio design should more close to your personality. I gave my portfolio a new design three months ago, I applied dark and bold elements that suite my personal taste. I built everything from scratch with my bare hands. I use my in-house dev tools such as krugurt.js MVP framework and Yogurt CSS for styling.