How To Explain This Project On My LinkedIn

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How To Explain This Project On My LinkedIn

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When your side project starts as "I just need to find one specific video" and ends with you accidentally becoming the chief architect of a distributed NSFW content aggregation platform. The progression from normal person to full clown is chef's kiss—each step sounds more impressive on a resume while getting exponentially harder to explain to your grandma.

The beauty here is that the technical skills are genuinely impressive: ETL pipelines, indexing 89,000 communities, deploying a Next.js app with proper infrastructure. But good luck putting "Built scalable search engine for adult content discovery across Reddit's NSFW ecosystem" on your LinkedIn without your professional network having questions. HR departments everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force.

Pro tip: Just call it a "content aggregation platform with advanced filtering capabilities" and pray nobody asks for a demo during the interview.

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