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A128 - As a developer, should I throw my projects on Github or build a site from scratch to grab attention?
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:05:15
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Let me provide some context to this question as I think it’s important for my answer here.This particular question comes from someone who is a web developer just starting out looking to get the attention of other companies looking to hire him.This person has no experience outside of school and pet projects. They don’t yet have a website either to speak of.The quick answer to this question is build a site.Yes it’ll take longer, but you need to keep in mind who you want to attract and where they are.Let me explain a little bit more of what I mean.Are you where your potential clients are?When you put something on Github, the other folks on Github are most likely to be developers.If your clients are developers, then by all means this is your best bet to help showcase your work effectively.However in this case, the likelihood that a decision maker or business owner is browsing around Github for well written code in order to go out a hire that developer is very slim at best.Having a website where you can link up yo