Built my first side project
I wanted to build something outside of assignments. I had a few ideas but the idea of ranking linkedin seemed most interesting to me. It started with me thinking how could I see profiles better than me and learn from them. At the same time, I didn't want it to be boring and wanted some fun element to it. So, the idea of gamifying linkedin accounts came.
I built this using react and hosted it on vercel. to keep track of ranks, chess style elo seemed to be a simple choice. I used supabase to set up the backend. For frontend, I am not good at UI and design, so I went to claude.
This has been fun until now building it and sharing it on reddit and other places. I got hold of a bug yesterday where newer ids were repeatedly showing up for matches (some oversight on my queries). An addition people suggested: showing reasons why your id ranks that way (what could be done to make it better) - I have no idea how to add that idea as a feature yet but still brainstorming.
It would be nice if any of you could try the project out and share anything (how it works, what could be better, etc...). see it for yourselves: