The "cool project" antipattern
A lot of people came to me, arguing that it is hard to get a job even with a wonderful portfolio. When I start to check out the developed projects, quickly I can see what I call the "cool project" antipattern. When we're beginning to create things in our learning curve, we tend to replicate the courses, tutorials, etc. That compose our first knowledge, this is the first indicator, a lot of people have the same portfolio. The cool project antipattern starts after that, we already have some knowledge how the things works and what we can do. So the next step into the knowledge curve is created our own things. Example, thing that you have done an incredible interface with some cool framework that use an API in real-time to notify and response WhatsApp messages. It's really cool, but when you come to show this project into an interview. The interviewer want to know our knowledge about it. If we pause and look your project in details, we can see that as a lot of stuff invol...