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Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects

63 points| zaryaf | 11 years ago |zyring.com

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Raphmedia|11 years ago

Nice website... but please, oh please... don't put the content of the website in a lightbox. Don't limit my access to your content to a 800x600 modal.

zooso|11 years ago

Agreed. We were actually debating this for a while :) Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it.

sreya|11 years ago

This is really cool from a first glance. I definitely think one needs to take this sort of approach when learning a new technology. Despite having enthusiasm about a new field of software development, it's far too easy to abandon any attempts education oneself due to the dryness of the material.

zaryaf|11 years ago

We couldn't agree more. Education on its own is not really sufficient to learn a new technology. Everyone need hands on experience, and our goal is to enable people to do so after they have finished a course. At a high level, be the lab for development courses.

Thanks much for your feedback!

cyxxon|11 years ago

This looks really interesting - especially since I am wondering where I want to take my career. I have studied CS and worked as a SAP CRM consultant for approximately ten years now, but always hang around sites like this one... and am getting more and more frustrated with the environment in which most stuff in my line of work happens (mid sized businesses in risk-averse sectors which see IT as a boring tool to sell whatever they produce). I had already wondered how I can polish my CV with more modern technologies, and this just seems to fit really well :)

zooso|11 years ago

This scenario is one of the main reasons we are doing this. We would love to talk to you more and see where we can help. I would really appreciate it if you could email me at alif@zyring.com so we can talk more.

itsybitsycoder|11 years ago

It's a cool idea, but I'm not sure I would want to start one of the projects when none of the outlines are actually finished. Looks like there are 4 different courses but each one is only 25% done, so there's not a lot of meat there yet.

coolanymous|11 years ago

Thank you for your feedback. We have just launched our startup and wanted to get feedback from the HackerNews community. We will be completing the roadmap for those projects and add more in other areas.

coralreef|11 years ago

This is pretty cool and seems like something I would use.

However the design aesthetics simply aren't up to par for me. The colour choices and font choices are not great.

ARCarr|11 years ago

Too many colors and the text is tiny in boxes that are too big.