What kind of projects that will get you hired as a Full Stack Web Developer in 2026 (im graduating in 2026)
I'm a fresher and have finished my exams. My placements are in the last stage, but I've lost hope in my college placements, so I'm trying off-campus.
My Tech Stack is : MERN
I have been building projects only by watching YouTube tutorials. I feel like I am just copying and pasting the code while watching the video. I understand the code and logic at that moment, but after a few days, I forget everything when I open the project again. I also cannot write code from scratch. It feels really bad to spend hours on a project and feel like I did not learn anything. So, I tried watching a short section of the tutorial and then tried to replicate it using active recall without looking at the video.
but i feel like the project is not enough to this job market, i need project ideas which will make me stand out of the crowd
I have read some reddit threads , they say to "build projects that solves real world problems and can be used by real users ".
But i have no project ideas to build projects like that , I need some solid project ideas that i can do and stand out (3 to 4 project ideas)
also i tried chatgpt to generate some ideas but its providing like:
"AI resume Analyzer"
"Expense Tracker with AI integrated"
so i need Guidance in this help me out