How This Course Works

Are the projects on your resume not helping you at all when it comes to impressing hiring managers and getting job opportunities? Let's fix that. Here are the core parts of the lesson:

• Your instructor Alex Chiou walks you through his extensive 10+ year Silicon Valley background with rapid career advancement, ending up as a high-performing tech lead making $750k at Robinhood. Most importantly, he goes through how he's built 30+ side project apps with 3 of them getting 500k+ users, getting him interviews at top companies like OpenAI, Google, Uber, Instacart, and more

• The exact definition of what a side project is and how it shouldn't be a startup

• You'll understand the many benefits of side projects and why they're almost always underrated by engineers. Side projects can do a whole lot more than getting you interviews and helping you pass them

• We walk you through the course objectives. By the end of the course, you will understand:

  • 💎 Understand what makes a side project valuable

  • 🫸 Avoid common traps that produce terrible ideas

  • ⚙️ Have a process to generate feasible, quality ideas

  • 💡 Follow a framework to judge a project’s quality

  • 💪 Set up the right mentality to build projects long-term

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