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Stop Building Todo Apps: What I Learned Shipping a Real Side Project as a Junior Dev

DEV Community·Alan Toro Holguin·18 days ago
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Hey 👋 I'm Alan, a Junior Full Stack Developer with around 6 months of professional experience at a Microsoft Partner company. I mostly work with .NET, React, and Azure and i'm still in that beautiful chaotic phase of trying to learn everything at once. This is not a senior developer guide. I'm just sharing what actually worked when I shipped my first real side project as a junior: KhozAI, a guitar practice assistant prototype inspired by the idea of personalized AI-generated routines. If you're a junior developer (or self-taught) wondering: “Do I even know enough to build and ship something real?” This post is for you. Why I Built KhozAI I play guitar in a rock band called Difumina2 🎸. And like most guitar players, I constantly run into the same problem: I sit down to practice... and suddenly I have no idea what to practice. Scales? Picking exercises? Chord transitions? Songs? Music theory? I would either: repeat the same exercises forever, or jump randomly between things without improving consistently.…

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