My first clone would be the popular Nairaland clone.

A fullstack app, frontend on Netlify, backend on heroku.

[url]Nairaland-clone.netlify.app[/url]


Judge my new portfolio design, tell me it's lapses from your point of view.
[url]Www.snotat.com[/url]

First off, who makes clones of an already shitty looking website? like what are you trying to achieve? And secondly, if I'm to be brutally honest with you, that your portfolio website is the ugliest looking website I've ever seen in my life. Like what the 4uck? I just can't believe that someone with 75% front end skill would build such an eyesore. 75% ohh, not even 20%. I've seen 1000 times better portfolio sites even from devs who've only been learning front end web development for only 6months, not to talk of someone claiming to have 70% front end skills.. Guy, that thing is ugly and looks
extremely unprofessional..

My rating?
-10/10

Snotat:
My first clone would be the popular Nairaland clone.

A fullstack app, frontend on Netlify, backend on heroku.

[url]Nairaland-clone.netlify.app[/url]


Judge my new portfolio design, tell me it's lapses from your point of view.
[url]Www.snotat.com[/url]

I am really wondering what you were trying to achieve by cloning Nairaland. Because if you were doing so by coding with your head without any assistance, I would give you thumbs up. But, if you really wanted to replicate Nairaland, then it's thumbs down. Why? It's because you simply could have copied the source code of nairaland and get the exact 'carbon-copy'.

Ikechukwu183:

I am really wondering what you were trying to achieve by cloning Nairaland. Because if you were doing so by coding with your head without any assistance, I would give you thumbs up. But, if you really wanted to replicate Nairaland, then it's thumbs down. Why? It's because you simply could have copied the source code of nairaland and get the exact 'carbon-copy'.

Ohh, I did it all by myself actually, I got tired at some point, after several hours writing the scrapper with puppeteer, I couldn't deploy it on heroku, after some days, I rewrite the code with cheerio, and it's even faster. Having clones of popular websites on ones portfolio nowadays is one of the things employers looks for. You are talking about copying Html and css source code from the inspector or a web tools, isn't it?
A clone should work like a real site actually, that updates itself. The clone is not static, you can check back later to see .

TastyFriedPussy:
First off, who makes clones of an already shitty looking website? like what are you trying to achieve? And secondly, if I'm to be brutally honest with you, that your portfolio website is the ugliest looking website I've ever seen in my life. Like what the 4uck? I just can't believe that someone with 75% front end skill would build such an eyesore. 75% ohh, not even 20%. I've seen 1000 times better portfolio sites even from devs who've only been learning front end web development for only 6months, not to talk of someone claiming to have 70% front end skills.. Guy, that thing is ugly and looks
extremely unprofessional..

My rating?
-10/10

Alright, thanks.

Your portfolio website looks like 90s website.
Get the fuckin monitor off the site and the mono background image should be discarded.It may be better if sections have different background image or background color.
Thanks.

Lol if you no get strong heart, no come nairaland come show off your work ooh. Some people's comments might let you quit your career.

mrfizy:
Your portfolio website looks like 90s website.
Get the fuckin monitor off the site and the mono background image should be discarded.It may be better if sections have different background image or background color.
Thanks.

okay , thanks

TastyFriedPussy:
First off, who makes clones of an already shitty looking website? like what are you trying to achieve? And secondly, if I'm to be brutally honest with you, that your portfolio website is the ugliest looking website I've ever seen in my life. Like what the 4uck? I just can't believe that someone with 75% front end skill would build such an eyesore. 75% ohh, not even 20%. I've seen 1000 times better portfolio sites even from devs who've only been learning front end web development for only 6months, not to talk of someone claiming to have 70% front end skills.. Guy, that thing is ugly and looks
extremely unprofessional..

My rating?
-10/10

Una nor get joy for this nairaland. It's very clear he is not good at designs. I was like that when I started. Op try to get portfolio templates online then change one or two stuff to suit your use case. Also like some of the bosses here normally say. Try building real world projects that people can use. Cloning nairaland in my opinion isn't something you spend your time on.

Also try building designs on frontend mentors this greatly help me to better understand designs and how to convert most designs to mobile if I was only given desktop design. But all in all kept pushing you can only get better

Don’t be discouraged by those baselessly criticizing your work and website. There’s nothing wrong with cloning “Nairaland”, it surely helped you learn something new and that’s what is important in my own opinion.
Your portfolio website doesn’t look back either, in fact I must say kudos to your use of animation though you might want to reduce it a bit because a lot of it may distract users from the main contents. Also you might want improve on it’s accessibility and background colors.

jikins:


Una nor get joy for this nairaland. It's very clear he is not good at designs. I was like that when I started. Op try to get portfolio templates online then change one or two stuff to suit your use case. Also like some of the bosses here normally say. Try building real world projects that people can use. Cloning nairaland in my opinion isn't something you spend your time on.

Also try building designs on frontend mentors this greatly help me to better understand designs and how to convert most designs to mobile if I was only given desktop design. But all in all kept pushing you can only get better

Thanks.

Op, frontend is not your calling o.
Your porfolio website no be am at all.

noxy1962:
Don’t be discouraged by those baselessly criticizing your work and website. There’s nothing wrong with cloning “Nairaland”, it surely helped you learn something new and that’s what is important in my own opinion.
Your portfolio website doesn’t look back either, in fact I must say kudos to your use of animation though you might want to reduce it a bit because a lot of it may distract users from the main contents. Also you might want improve on it’s accessibility and background colors.

Thanks.

aktem:
Op, frontend is not your calling o.
Your porfolio website no be am at all.

Okay thanks

Not that I'm really a programmer, but I've seen Indians and other Asians on Twitter getting remote frontend jobs with projects and designs that are honestly not any better than what the OP has.

They just do a Udemy bootcamp and put generic projects on their portfolio and they get remote jobs. I mean, stuff like calculators and random quote generators. Sometimes, I see amazing web apps from Nairalanders and I wonder how they're not as fortunate in their job search.

The thing is that they always make sure to learn DSA and advise their followers to do the same. So I think that's the most important thing for programmers first and foremost. People with apparently subpar frontend skills are getting jobs out there with DSA.

OP no mind them... u actually tried

Believe me, those commenting negatively above don't have even calculator project on their portfolio just click on their profile and previous post and you'll be consoled

I'm saying you tried because of the scrapper u built lol.
It's really frustrating after writing the script and heroku don't let you host it... I know because I had written a scrapper with same puppeteer and nightmare.js for days and they didn't let me host it.

Fact u had to rewrite is impressive.

You know programming ... but your UI skills sucks.


Maybe you're a backend developer.

GREATIGBOMAN:
OP no mind them... u actually tried

Believe me, those commenting negatively above don't have even calculator project on their portfolio just click on their profile and previous post and you'll be consoled

I'm saying you tried because of the scrapper u built lol.
It's really frustrating after writing the script and heroku don't let you host it... I know because I had written a scrapper with same puppeteer and nightmare.js for days and they didn't let me host it.

Fact u had to rewrite is impressive.

You know programming ... but your UI skills sucks.


Maybe you're a backend developer.

Come write inec Scrapper for me na

Qinglong:
Not that I'm really a programmer, but I've seen Indians and other Asians on Twitter getting remote frontend jobs with projects and designs that are honestly not any better than what the OP has.

They just do a Udemy bootcamp and put generic projects on their portfolio and they get remote jobs. I mean, stuff like calculators and random quote generators. Sometimes, I see amazing web apps from Nairalanders and I wonder how they're not as fortunate in their job search.

The thing is that they always make sure to learn DSA and advise their followers to do the same. So I think that's the most important thing for programmers first and foremost. People with apparently subpar frontend skills are getting jobs out there with DSA.

When he talk they go remove our head

GREATIGBOMAN:
OP no mind them... u actually tried

Believe me, those commenting negatively above don't have even calculator project on their portfolio just click on their profile and previous post and you'll be consoled

I'm saying you tried because of the scrapper u built lol.
It's really frustrating after writing the script and heroku don't let you host it... I know because I had written a scrapper with same puppeteer and nightmare.js for days and they didn't let me host it.

Fact u had to rewrite is impressive.

You know programming ... but your UI skills sucks.


Maybe you're a backend developer.

Please give the phone back to the original owner

The original great Igbo man go don mud the OP

But really I wonder where those discrediting the OP left their brain. They don't know there is a lot to learn from the backend of that project?

That project could get him a role.

TastyFriedPussy:
First off, who makes clones of an already shitty looking website? like what are you trying to achieve? And secondly, if I'm to be brutally honest with you, that your portfolio website is the ugliest looking website I've ever seen in my life. Like what the 4uck? I just can't believe that someone with 75% front end skill would build such an eyesore. 75% ohh, not even 20%. I've seen 1000 times better portfolio sites even from devs who've only been learning front end web development for only 6months, not to talk of someone claiming to have 70% front end skills.. Guy, that thing is ugly and looks
extremely unprofessional..

My rating?
-10/10

Zero Joy

Snotat:
My first clone would be the popular Nairaland clone.

A fullstack app, frontend on Netlify, backend on heroku.

[url]Nairaland-clone.netlify.app[/url]


Judge my new portfolio design, tell me it's lapses from your point of view.
[url]Www.snotat.com[/url]

Firstly, it's ok to replicate designs and prove your skills. It shows you know how to use your developer tools to "pip" designs

Secondly, you really need to take design classes on your front end. You seems to lack affinity with colours

JoyousFurnitire:


Please give the phone back to the original owner

The original great Igbo man go don mud the OP

But really I wonder where those discrediting the OP left their brain. They don't know there is a lot to learn from the backend of that project?

That project could get him a role.

I swear! Great Igbo man wey I know go don slaughter the guy head, pound am then use an do manure

Hannania:
Zero Joy

me I no dey like lie for pesin when it comes to stuff like this... If the thing good, I go tell am sey e good..

airsaylongcome:


I swear! Great Igbo man wey I know go don slaughter the guy head, pound am then use an do manure

Lmao

TastyFriedPussy:
First off, who makes clones of an already shitty looking website? like what are you trying to achieve? And secondly, if I'm to be brutally honest with you, that your portfolio website is the ugliest looking website I've ever seen in my life. Like what the 4uck? I just can't believe that someone with 75% front end skill would build such an eyesore. 75% ohh, not even 20%. I've seen 1000 times better portfolio sites even from devs who've only been learning front end web development for only 6months, not to talk of someone claiming to have 70% front end skills.. Guy, that thing is ugly and looks
extremely unprofessional..

My rating?
-10/10

I just checked your profile and I saw that you are about to start your own tech journey
it so bad you made comments like this on another person's post out of pure hate and dishonesty

Snotat:
My first clone would be the popular Nairaland clone.

A fullstack app, frontend on Netlify, backend on heroku.

[url]Nairaland-clone.netlify.app[/url]


Judge my new portfolio design, tell me it's lapses from your point of view.
[url]Www.snotat.com[/url]

I don't know wtf is going on in your portfolio website that makes it hard for me to scroll

Ajibade123:

I just checked your profile and I saw that you are about to start your own tech journey
it so bad you made comments like this on another person's post out of pure hate and dishonesty

Don't mind the guy.

The guy will be no better than the OP in the future. And come to think of it, the yeye trash talker is just barley starting his tech journey. We'll be here waiting for the time when he will ask us to rate his design work.

Even if you want to criticize someone, do so constructively. If there is nothing to commend the op about, at least commend him for the effort he put into building something.

That's one thing I hate about we Africans, we're just too quick dampen the zeal of fellow black folks like us... feeling like alpha and omega

@op didn't mind the trash talkers. You tried. Continue putting in the effort, with time you'll improve and get better.

Snotat:
My first clone would be the popular Nairaland clone.

A fullstack app, frontend on Netlify, backend on heroku.

[url]Nairaland-clone.netlify.app[/url]


Judge my new portfolio design, tell me it's lapses from your point of view.
[url]Www.snotat.com[/url]

Like the way you where able to make use of effects to make ur portfolio site interactive.

You need to work on your use of colors and images to make d site mor professional.
Good work!

TastyFriedPussy:
First off, who makes clones of an already shitty looking website? like what are you trying to achieve? And secondly, if I'm to be brutally honest with you, that your portfolio website is the ugliest looking website I've ever seen in my life. Like what the 4uck? I just can't believe that someone with 75% front end skill would build such an eyesore. 75% ohh, not even 20%. I've seen 1000 times better portfolio sites even from devs who've only been learning front end web development for only 6months, not to talk of someone claiming to have 70% front end skills.. Guy, that thing is ugly and looks
extremely unprofessional..

My rating?
-10/10

There are better ways of passing your message without being degrading

Snotat:
My first clone would be the popular Nairaland clone.

A fullstack app, frontend on Netlify, backend on heroku.

[url]Nairaland-clone.netlify.app[/url]


Judge my new portfolio design, tell me it's lapses from your point of view.
[url]Www.snotat.com[/url]

TastyFriedPussy:
First off, who makes clones of an already shitty looking website? like what are you trying to achieve? And secondly, if I'm to be brutally honest with you, that your portfolio website is the ugliest looking website I've ever seen in my life. Like what the 4uck? I just can't believe that someone with 75% front end skill would build such an eyesore. 75% ohh, not even 20%. I've seen 1000 times better portfolio sites even from devs who've only been learning front end web development for only 6months, not to talk of someone claiming to have 70% front end skills.. Guy, that thing is ugly and looks
extremely unprofessional..

My rating?
-10/10

you clearly lack insight about front end inspirations. Front end at times needs to just be neat looking and light weight. In Nairaland's case, that's what is needed. If you go all the way to include topic images, multiple fonts, icons & CSS for frameworks then average front page size rises to above 300kb. Imagine all the traffic here daily multiplies by that. Cost of hosting such a design, would almost, if not, eat all the revenue from adverts. Nairaland isn't shiity looking but minimalistic in nature.

@topic, grab a screen shot of your desigh in large screen(above 1280px), medium screen, between (700px and 1200px) and then small screens, all separately. Upload them here and let's appraise for you.