roberja90 (u/roberja90)

roberja90 commented on Using my side project to get noticed in this brutal job market–and It's working job-application-zeta.verc... · Posted by u/roberja90

themkmaker · a year ago

Pretty good! I would say start showing something interactive from the beginning so that the viewer doesn't loose interest thinking it's just a normal video. I was about to leave but then saw it's interactive.

roberja90 · a year ago

Thanks for that. I think your right. I had a version where there was some profile links form the very start. Will switch back to that approach.

roberja90 commented on Using my side project to get noticed in this brutal job market–and It's working job-application-zeta.verc... · Posted by u/roberja90

roberja90 · a year ago

Man, the job market for software engineers is rough right now. I'm back on the hunt for a new gig. Second time in just a couple of years. It’s a grind. The ghosting, the rejections… it never gets easier.

But earlier this week, I got a little lucky and found some inspiration. I saw a job posting that mentioned they were open to video applications. That got me thinking: why not use on of my own project to make interactive video applications? Figured it’d be a cool way to stand out, connect with the company, and show off what I can do in a more creative way.

So, I gave it a shot and sent out a few of these interactive video applications. And so far, the response rate has been shockingly high. Fingers crossed it keeps going like this.

If anyone else out there is struggling with the job search and wants help setting something like this up, just hit me up. Hang in there, everyone—we’ll get through this.

Posted by u/roberja90 a year ago

Using my side project to get noticed in this brutal job market–and It's working job-application-zeta.verc...

roberja90 commented on Show HN: Open-source video smart cutting github.com/skeskinen/smar... · Posted by u/skeskinen

roberja90 · a year ago

Really cool. Hoping to try this on my project. It relies a lot on chopping down vids programatically. Hoping this will help with workflow. Nice work. Great video demo too.

roberja90 commented on Ask HN: What was your win this week while working on your project? · Posted by u/mhrnik

roberja90 · a year ago

Think I finally got my open source project to the bare minimum where another developer could understand, run and make use of it.

https://github.com/james-a-rob/KodaStream

If anyone want to give it a go that would be cool.

Posted by u/roberja90 a year ago

Ask HN: Advice on getting from 10 to 100 GitHub stars?

roberja90 commented on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? · Posted by u/david927

roberja90 · a year ago

Open source interactive video API.

Main use-case right now is shoppable live streams. Getting about 20,000 shoppers a month currently.

Demo: https://www.sneakinpeace.com/ Repo: https://github.com/james-a-rob/KodaStream