Everyone's portfolio proves they can code. Yours should prove you can choose.
The tutorial project and the clone are indistinguishable across a thousand applications, because they answer a question nobody asked. A project chosen from cited evidence answers a different one: here is a real, recurring problem, here is why I picked it over the alternatives, here is who would pay for it. That is the story that survives an interview.
Every opportunity comes with its evidence attached, so your write-up opens with sources instead of an invented premise.
Time to MVP is a scored dimension — pick something you can genuinely finish this semester rather than abandon in week six.
The Free plan opens two domains and scores five of your own ideas a month, no credit card.
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Live free-tier snapshots from domains where a well-chosen student project is genuinely useful.
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Live board- 2540Grade Integrity & Inflation Analytics for Higher Ed
- 2640Collaborative Project Matchmaker for Personalized Learning
- 2736CrosswordCraft: AI Educational Puzzle Maker
- 2835Federated Student Success Early-Warning Network for Multi-Campus Colleges
- 2934IEP Goal Coach for Special Education Progress Monitoring
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Free is a real plan, not a trial — two domains and five idea evaluations a month. Personal is there if a project turns into something.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use this without paying?
Yes. The Free plan opens two domains, shows the full analysis on the opportunities it covers, and includes five of your own idea evaluations a month — no credit card. It is a real plan rather than a countdown trial.
How do I pick something I can finish?
Time to MVP is one of the four Buildability dimensions, scored per opportunity, alongside feasibility and data availability. Filtering for a short time to MVP is the single most useful move for a project that has to ship inside a term or a job search.
What makes an evidence-backed project better in an interview?
It changes the question you get asked. A cited problem lets you talk about why this and not that — the trade-off, the evidence, the buyer — which is the judgement interviewers are actually probing for and which a clone of a well-known app gives you no material for.
I'm switching careers from another field. Does my background help?
Considerably, and it is worth using deliberately: pick the domain board closest to the field you're leaving. You will read the cited complaints faster and more accurately than someone coming to that industry cold, which is exactly the advantage a career switcher has and rarely uses.
Can I get my own idea scored before I build it?
Yes — submit it and it is scored on the same sixteen dimensions with the same evidence rules as every board opportunity, including which dimensions were capped for lack of verified evidence. That breakdown is also good material for the project write-up itself.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Evidence first. Then conviction.
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