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How I created devchallenges.io in just 3 Months in my free time

Thu Nghiem on June 29, 2020

About me Hi I am Thu. I am from Vietnam and I moved to Finland 5 years ago (all alone..). I came to study and I got my first job as a ga...
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Rodolfo

Thu, your site is really really beautiful, sleek, modern, sexy and VERY practical! It's such a great idea. I was looking for something like that to practice my skills. Thank you for sharing it. Just followed you.

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Thu Nghiem

Thank you so much for your comment Rodolfo. Hopefully to see you more in the future :)

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George Moraitis

Incredible work!!Congratulations!!!I am 60 to 70% in the Junior category right now and I can imagine how hard is to build this site !!!👍👍

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Thu Nghiem

The hardest part for me was not to give up :) thank you for your kind words

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George Moraitis

I understand completely !!

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Jason Leung 🧗‍♂️👨‍💻

This looks really nice and professional. Thanks for making this for the web!

Could you share what did you study in Finland and how was your life moving there all alone? I am exploring postgraduate study opportunities. Thanks!

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Thu Nghiem

I studied Business IT. I was a real struggle at the beginning - didn't know what I wanted, didn't have enough money to buy what I want. But I was lucky to meet nice people but still hard to do everything alone.

I have a nice job currently and people at work are super nice. Last year, I bought my own apartment and now I am living my best life :)).

I do plan to share my life in my youtube channel in the future, glad that someone was curious

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Jason Leung 🧗‍♂️👨‍💻

I bet you are happy with your decision and I am happy for you. Please do share more in your channel.💪🏻

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Abhijeet Singh

Mind blowing! dude, I am new to devchallenges.io platform, I am facing 1 small problem I can't copy the text from the web designs it just make it little hard because manually typing giving me headache, I hope you will fix it soon :)
I think your platform is a good competitor against frontend mentor.

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Alejo Garcia

This is great. Do you have a revenue model?

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Thu Nghiem • Edited

I have some in mind. But I don't expect too much. I do this because I want to start my own youtube channel. I really hope it will help people more than I earn more money. Tax in Finland is really high :))

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Julian Pufler

Awesome work, glad to be a small part of the bigger picture! 👍

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JagpalKooner

AMAZING! I been meaning to look for something like this. Thank you!

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Thu Nghiem

nice to hear, I hope you will have a fun time with it :)

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Saravana Kumar Putta Selvaraj • Edited

This really looks perfect to upskill myself. I should thank you for this.
Just a suggestion. Please have the Sidebar(navbar) fixed and let the scrolling be in the content area.

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Thu Nghiem

I'll add it to the todo list, please join Discord, you can suggest more features there :)

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Rahul Jain

This is so cool🙌

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Ankit Beniwal

And Now I am waiting for that full-stack path.

Meanwhile I will try other paths. Cool Stuff!

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Thu Nghiem

I am working on it atm, you can try Discord for updates :)

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Thu Nghiem • Edited

yes I'll consider that in the future thanks for suggestion

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ips-coding-challenge

Amazing work ! ;)

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Thu Nghiem

Thank you so much!

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Hebert Romero

Hey dude congrats for your work looks fancy, and its a an amazing work just for u

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Thu Nghiem

Thank you dude :)!

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Akshay090

What did you do for state management, like were context and hooks enough.
Did you use useReducer

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Thu Nghiem

yes :)

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G33kNoob

Seem interesting, maybe you can put patreon or bitcoin donation at bottom..
I will try to solve any problem listed due i learning frontend developer with vue

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Thu Nghiem

Sounds great, I'll design more challenges. and yeah patreon may sound easier to do :)

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Ezeganya Victor

I am inspired. How long will it take me to learn figma?

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Thu Nghiem

learning the tool is not difficult, but learning the concept is.

I think it will take you 2 days to learn how to use the tool. I am not so sure how long to learn to concept, I learned designing 4 years ago and bit by bit improving over the time :)

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ShinaBR2

Thanks for your inspiration.
P/s: hay quá anh ơi :D

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Thu Nghiem

haha thank you and minh con tre lam :)

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Will G

Looks great!

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Thu Nghiem

Thank you :)

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Htet Lynn Htun

This gonna help me a lot. The site looks awesome.

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Thu Nghiem

haha nice to hear :)

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Dragodzs

Wow, thank you for the inspiration for me ♥ .

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Thu Nghiem

happy to hear. Please share it if you can :)

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Thuyet

Love the simplicity. I'll give it a go 'cause I'm learning frontend at the moment and looking for practice opportunities.

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Thu Nghiem

Xin chao! Glad you like it, and best of luck with your studying :)