That's an old model that we used to plan to work with companies to contribute. Now we're focusing on self-learning and want to help people learn and master real engineering skills.

We have launched it for a while. Thanks for the feedback. The reason we don't show others' solution beforehand it's because it will demotivate people to think hard and solve problems.

These tasks are created by us from square one. It helps people really learn important backend and frontend engineering skills.

Then the show HN title is a bit confusing / misleading.

Yea, that makes sense. It's hard to think of a one-liner to accurately describe what Real Dev is about.

How are they real world problems?

We made these projects based on work that we did in companies and day-to-day software engineering work. The idea is to inspire engineers to learn real skills by getting their hands dirty.

Ok. I think the headline communicates something different.

Reading doesn't really learn. Real Dev aims to help people get their hands dirty and learn by doing.

I like this idea a lot. I struggled learning new things all the time. This will give me a list of interesting projects to work on.

Glad you like it! Mind sharing a bit about your learning experience, so that I can learn from it? :)

As an engineer, instead of preparing and solving algorithm puzzles. I really like this way of recruiting.

This thread has been a great discussion. We are a startup and did hiring ourselves. We gave 1) algorithms, system designs type on questions 2) a mini project like build a profile in React Native. With 10 sample size, we found people who finished the project quickly and reasonably performed well at work while candidates who passed algorithms didn’t grow as fast.

The main thing is the problem solving oriented skills in a project that really makes a difference.

Thus, we pivoted to do a mini project screening automation for companies to do hirings. This site has backend to frontend tasks that come with a CLI to code the project locally. The website is called https://real.dev. We want to solve this interview problems for companies.