Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?

Re:Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land you... by sabarasaba on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @05:05AM (#15025997)

Back in 2012-2013 I was learning about javascript and nodejs was the new kid in town. I started learning about express and mongodb and within a few weeks I manage to create a scraper for torrentz.eu to index a bunch of movie torrents and fetch their metadata from imdb/omdb and trailers from youtube. I built a pretty UI and publish the website in the chrome store as an app. It quickly began to grow and was averaging around 600-700 visits a day and even made it as a featured app in the store.

One local blog from my city in argentina picked it up and wrote an article about it and got a call from a big local company that they wanted to talk to me. Thats how I landed my first job as a javascript developer.

A year later my app got removed from the store because "it did not comply with their policies or terms of service".

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Re:Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land you... by andanotherthing on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @06:22AM (#15026347)

That's a great story! How long after you started learning JS did you start making the movie app?

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Re:Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land you... by sabarasaba on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:28AM (#15026912)

Maybe a year give or take, and I ended up building it to scratch my own itch of wanting to find a nice movie to watch over the weekend.

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