Ready to use side project with wireframes and trello board + tickets

TLDR: Use this as a ready-to-go project with wireframes and tickets.

Finding a side project is one of the best ways to improve as a developer in my opinion, especially early in to your career. It’s even better if it’s a side project that you think could make money, or help improve someone's life or was just plain interesting to you — these will no doubt be easier to motivate yourself to spend time on.

The reality is that sometimes you just can’t think of one and I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen people avoid them because they don’t know where to start.

For that reason I’ve created a job application tracker side project that you can use (ideally alongside a mentor if you’re quite new) that just takes away any of the time and effort involved in designing a project.

You’re welcome to use the wireframes and then you yourself break them down into smaller chunks (with each chunk being a ticket that you pick up, raise a PR for and then merge into master). This is very valuable experience and that process of taking a big problem and splitting it into smaller ones is a non-negotiable skill as a developer.

Having said that, if your learning goal is to learn more a language or a framework or you just want to see how someone else might break it down (which is a valid way to learn through exposure) then you can also use the trello board that’s included in the README by copying it it over.

Here’s the project with wireframes and links to trello alongside a suggested workflow: https://github.com/codelix-org/job-tracker