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Build Side Projects With 500k+ Users: Coming Up With An Idea

2h 14m 19s
English
Paid

You have spent 50+ hours refining your resume and LinkedIn profile. You have sent out over 1000 job applications. Yet, despite all your efforts, interview invitations are almost nonexistent. And with top companies, including Big Tech, it's zero. What should you do?

Why Build Side Projects?

There are many ways to enhance your career prospects, but one of the simplest, underrated, and most powerful is to create meaningful side projects. The goal of any technology company is to develop scalable products used by hundreds of thousands of users. To do this, you don’t need to work with a team—just a computer and internet access is enough.

Course Outcomes

After completing this course, you will learn:

  • What makes a side project valuable
  • Common mistakes that lead to bad ideas
  • How to generate viable and implementable ideas
  • Methods to evaluate the quality of an idea and project
  • Strategies for developing long-term projects

Transform Your Career with Side Projects

This course will guide you in generating an idea for a project that you can develop in your free time, even if you are a beginner engineer. Aim for your project to gain traction and reach 10,000+ users; this milestone can significantly enhance your portfolio's attractiveness. When your project scales to 500,000+ users, top companies, including FAANG, will likely reach out to you for interviews.

About the Author: Alex Chiou

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Alex Chiou is a US engineer (formerly at Meta and Pinterest) and a co-founder of Tech Career Growth (originally Tech Lead alongside Patrick Shyu). His teaching focuses on the career-trajectory side of working in software at large tech companies — the unwritten rules of performance reviews, promotions, project selection, and the soft-skills that compound across an engineering career.

The course catalog covers technical interview preparation (algorithm / data-structure questions and the system-design rounds at the senior level), the career-side topics around landing and succeeding at FAANG-tier companies, and the engineering-management track for developers transitioning into leadership roles.

The CourseFlix listing under this source carries 9 Alex Chiou courses spanning that range. Material is paid and aimed at engineers preparing for interviews or actively navigating the career path at large tech companies.

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All Course Lessons (18)
#Lesson TitleDurationAccess
1
How This Course Works Demo
14:55
2
What Makes A Project Valuable
09:26
3
The Key To A Great Project Idea
05:39
4
Finding Inspiration
04:58
5
Tech Stack Rankings
09:40
6
Your Idea Is Worthless (For Now)
04:02
7
The Alex Formula
08:29
8
The 3 Levels Of Tech
10:32
9
Single Player vs. Multiplayer
06:11
10
Keep The Stakes Low
05:55
11
Simple Is Complex
06:40
12
Do A Search
04:55
13
Look For Gaps
04:09
14
Your Superpower: Thinking Small
04:41
15
Putting It All Together: Idea Scorecard
10:50
16
Bias Towards Action
04:44
17
Just Keep Building
07:00
18
Go Deeper: Follow Through
11:33
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Course content

18 lessons · 2h 14m 19s
Show all 18 lessons
  1. 1 How This Course Works 14:55
  2. 2 What Makes A Project Valuable 09:26
  3. 3 The Key To A Great Project Idea 05:39
  4. 4 Finding Inspiration 04:58
  5. 5 Tech Stack Rankings 09:40
  6. 6 Your Idea Is Worthless (For Now) 04:02
  7. 7 The Alex Formula 08:29
  8. 8 The 3 Levels Of Tech 10:32
  9. 9 Single Player vs. Multiplayer 06:11
  10. 10 Keep The Stakes Low 05:55
  11. 11 Simple Is Complex 06:40
  12. 12 Do A Search 04:55
  13. 13 Look For Gaps 04:09
  14. 14 Your Superpower: Thinking Small 04:41
  15. 15 Putting It All Together: Idea Scorecard 10:50
  16. 16 Bias Towards Action 04:44
  17. 17 Just Keep Building 07:00
  18. 18 Go Deeper: Follow Through 11:33

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You have spent 50+ hours refining your resume and LinkedIn profile. You have sent out over 1000 job applications. Yet, despite all your efforts, interview invitations are almost nonexistent. And with top companies, including Big Tech, it's…
Who teaches Build Side Projects With 500k+ Users: Coming Up With An Idea?
Build Side Projects With 500k+ Users: Coming Up With An Idea is taught by Alex Chiou. You can find more courses by this instructor on the corresponding source page.
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Build Side Projects With 500k+ Users: Coming Up With An Idea contains 18 lessons with a total runtime of 2 hours 14 minutes. All lessons are available to watch online at your own pace.
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