These Coding Projects Will Get You Hired in 2026
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Welcome to the Leftfield Games, we're
basically going to start now. So pretty
much I'll explain the rules how it went.
So everyone was given 31 days to
complete their project, right? By March
31st, March 31st now. The requirement
was you had to create a full-scale
application from front end all the way
to back end to qualify and you had to
host and deploy your app. The top three
people that we believe have the most
completed project and it doesn't matter
if you like what level you are, right?
We're going to critique it to your
level. Mhm. experience. So that the top
three people will get like a mini
one-day mentorship from the Leftfield
team and will get a customized road map
to be able to hopefully use that to
break through into tech. Uh Phil, do you
have any words to say, any words of
wisdom, advice to everyone who
participated?
Yeah, I mean like like I said earlier,
like you know, it's like the it's hard
work, like it's like a piece of art. I
always think of it like a piece of art
that you're putting out, so it's like
your passion. And
you put it out there for everybody to
use and you know, if it's not complete,
but if it's working, that's totally fine
cuz it's like you can always update it
and keep working on it. But I want to
thank you and like on behalf of like
Leftfield or whatever, like uh thank you
for participating and let's get the game
started. All right, guys. The first one
is actually uploaded this morning from I
think your friend Phil Matos. He did
something really cool. I don't I do want
to give a lot of love to it. I'm not
exactly sure how he made this, but maybe
you'll have a better idea. I'll just
link this in the chat room here in the
community post. You guys can all click
on it, look at it. Take a look. There's
like any login or anything like that,
but I found I found that this is really
cool. Yeah, um this is a this is the
Seoul like subway train station um app.
So there's a lot of cool stuff here.
He's using um
some kind of map API with some polygons
drawn to show like um Seoul and then
Gyeonggi-do and then like all the
provinces and stuff like that and where
the train station goes. Uh Matos was
talking to me a little about about a
little bit and um
I guess from where you are at City Hall
the blue takes 15 minutes to get to.
Um the orange takes 30 minutes to get to
and the 60 this takes like an hour to
get to. It's pretty cool. It's hooked
into the Seoul API. I think he scraped
it and I think whenever Matos comes to
South Korea he always gets a lot of
he wants to come back all the time.
And
taking the subway and the train at in
Korea is like it's an experience in
itself. Everything is so connected and
it's always really fun. But this is
really cool. If you actually like take a
look
let's take a look at the inspector here.
So
let's refresh. See how it's working.
He has some kind of
API that he's running called
uh and then he's passing in some kind of
thing here.
Uh let's see what the response is.
Okay, that's pretty cool. Um
these are all the tiles I guess from the
map.
There's keys all here, but okay.
And
so he's using this map tiler
um to get the map shown. I guess it's
the Korean API cuz it has all the Korean
stuff. Who knows?
Looks pretty good and then the GeoJSON
for the polygons.
Awesome. It's coming into.
Which is which are just coordinates to
draw the polygons. They're pretty cool.
Um
I think when he's
you know, working with these map stuff
and all this kind of stuff is uh
pretty interesting. It's cool that he's
not doing live requests and he actually
put in his own like database. Mhm. Um
So like if you actually look here, this
is probably his GeoJSON
file that he has statically put that he
already collected
in his website and if you you know, you
can put pop this in any map API and it
could draw the polygons for
whatever it is. It's probably pretty
heavy cuz
what's going to probably going to happen
is if I put myself at a different place
right?
Let's put
my uh
I don't know. Um
I don't know if you guys ever heard of
Hongdae.
It's going to show you a different
polygon for every single station, right?
From what you can get to from in 15
minutes 30 minutes and 60 minutes and
that's going to have a different uh
GeoJSON file for every single one. And
it's a huge file, I think.
Mhm, yep. But this looks cool. It looks
like people would use it. And it's
pretty useful cuz then uh we I think
I'll send this to Damian cuz then you
can figure out you know, how long
something could takes to get to.
Pretty cool. Um let's move on to the
next app, shall we? Yeah. So welcome to
next panel. So it's for Korean manhuas,
so like Korean animes, right? Your
personal space to track uh manga, manhua
and manhua. Build your library, keep up
with your uh so I guess you just um
I guess they really like solo leveling
and they've um you know, there's so many
of these animes and manhuas like
you have to keep track of which number
you're on, what which ones you've read
and all this kind of stuff. It's pretty
cool.
Um let me see. Let me browse series.
It's pretty cool. So he's hooking up
into some API
to get all these
animes somewhere.
So next panel API
and then he has a response and you have
all these APIs that he scraped
to get these
What is this called? Animes? Yep. Yeah.
It's pretty cool. I like that he made
his own API and
I really
think that's cool. I guess the main main
thing is called onrender.com.
But he has a back end that's running on
onrender.com. That's pretty cool.
Librarie, do you have any comments about
this one?
Let's see the cache. I'll I'll let you
take it
a look at it and it was
it's pretty good and I also noticed it
was very fast as well, which was
not something you would see any just
anywhere. Yeah. It
calls real quick. It's real good. It's
it's very check the responsiveness of
it.
Mhm.
Mhm.
>> [clears throat]
>> It's pretty good.
>> Yeah. Um It's very responsive.
Just uh
I think it's pretty good, but I I would
I don't know if there's any caching
system here.
But um
seems to be making this request pretty
fast and let's see his
See this uh
>> Oh man. dragon Okay. All right, there
you go. There you go. It needs the
space. So
maybe I don't know how he's doing the
searching, but um
that's maybe some other stuff can be
implemented here to kind of help that.
Some kind of rejects or something like
that. Uh and have some matching score.
But that's pretty it's pretty good. I
like it a lot. And um
I like I like anime a lot like One Piece
and Dragon Ball and um
Do you? What is an uh
>> [laughter]
>> And I mean if you actually wanted to
make this better and like my suggestion
is like looking at Elasticsearch. That's
going to like
help this searching part a lot more.
my opinion
and I guess there is some kind of use
debounce kind of thing here
cuz I see it right now.
And um
I like that.
So it's probably making a request on use
debounce. So you see this.
But
how it should work is you should
probably use like
you know, an index search index kind of
thing like Elasticsearch or I know that
there's like a open source one called
MeiliSearch. I always really wanted to
use it.
But I really
I think it's really well built and this
one seems really good. So you just like
add all your databases that you all your
items or documents that you want to
actually search for inside of a search
index kind of database and um
and then it and then there's like some
kind of things where like it uses
rejects or something and it gets you the
hits of like what's similar and then you
show those
on your
on your subject. Thank you guys for
you know,
helping out and also um
you know, if you guys still have apps
that you haven't uploaded yet, please
you know, drop it in there. We're going
to do this you know, quite frequently.
So don't be afraid to share.
It's always good. For sure, for sure. I
just want to see one more thing.
Um
>> Oh, the guy is here. Oh, he's here?
Yeah, RXD. Oh, hey RX uh
G
GVN
RXD uh amazing. Mhm. Uh
uh we there's a new anime guy that I'd
like to connect you to. What's his um
Who's the new mentee from last week?
Remember? Mini
or
I forget.
>> That
West? Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Let me let me just check. Let me let me
connect you with him. I think he's
really into anime, too.
But um Just looked at your app and we
just talked about like how you can
improve it and like how you did great.
What what things you did also. Um just
watch the video for it. It's pretty
cool. I like it. I like it a lot.
Awesome. Awesome. Thank you.
GNV GVN, how how long have you been
coding for?
And after that a year ago, that's that's
amazing, man. For just a year. Mhm.
Really good.
Good app.
Good work. Keep up the good work, man.
All right, the next This is pretty
interesting.
By this guy 59463.
So and automated invoice reminders for
freelancers and small businesses.
Hello 5946
3
Remite, so like remittance for like
movie move money something. Now in early
access stop chasing later invoices.
Keep cash moving. Pretty cool automated
reminder emails for freelancers and
consultants.
That's cool.
So I like the landing page a lot, right?
I like that it's like a full product.
Cuz like whenever you think about a
product, you know, everybody thinks
about building the app or whatever, but
you need to build a landing page.
You need to build the app. You need to
build the admin panel, the server. And
those four things are going to equal um
a business online.
Mhm. Those four.
Not just the app. But uh how Remints
works, you create an invoice, set the
schedule.
So for subscription or payment plan.
And it sends follow up emails when an
invoice is marked un uh
and stops when the invoice is marked
paid.
Okay, that is cool. I like it a lot.
He probably saw a problem in his um in
their space.
And try to figure it out. Let me let me
try the demo real quick. Can I Can I
drop an invoice in here or something or
invoices So what if I want to
I like that they did a demo too. That's
awesome.
>> man.
Schedule
and 3 days before due date.
Set two due dates, set three five days
after. So these are the sequence I have
I guess.
And then 25 days after due date. It'd be
kind of cool if
you know, if it's you added some late
fees as well or something like that if
you could include that in your contract.
Who knows? But that's cool like reminder
frequency. So I could do like a 14-day
reminder. Oh, and it uses AI to like
make the messages a little bit That's
cool, too. That's cool.
Turn that off.
That's cool, man.
I like it a lot. I think I think it
solves a real problem, right? But when I
actually
I can mark it as paid, but do I have to
How do I upload the invoice?
That's the one thing I'm I'm looking
for.
Invoices. No emails are sent, that's
fine, but how do I create the invoice?
Let's check the search.
So this this is It says that we we
import them from exterior. Ex- Excuse
me? It says to import them for invoices
from exterior.
Okay, okay.
Or add them manually in minutes. So you
basically have to create it yourself and
then this is the the software to remind
them.
Okay, okay.
That's [snorts] a
Acme Corpis.
Kind of an huh?
But uh
Okay, that's cool. And um
Wait,
maybe in the search this invoice search
that's kind of the same thing that we
have with the next panel, right? And
there's no use the balance here either.
But I guess it is just filtering through
the already stuff. Like it's not making
a request, so that's totally fine.
All right, that's uh I like this. I
think it solves a real problem.
Cool. Yeah.
All right,
the next one we're going to do
[clears throat] I think it's actually
deployed on Google. Wait.
Okay, instantly instantly know the true
value of everything. Point your camera
at any object or AI identifies instantly
and scans thousands of marketplaces to
give you the real price.
That's freaking awesome. That's
Yeah. So
um
especially for like it's I think if you
make it really well, like um
it's really good to incorporate into
like a used marketplace cuz I think in
Singapore they created this in like 2000
They tried to create this in 2019 at a
startup.
And they did really well and it got
incorporated into um
into Tangent Market or Carrot Market.
It's like a Korean news market app.
And when you actually
post like some used market item um you
can ask for a price suggestion. And
one other thing is you can create like
the
the actual post
with AI.
So it helps you make the post and like
the price as well.
But I mean that's that's pretty cool.
um
Is there any way we You don't have an
Android, right, Phil? I do not have an
Android. Wait, wait, I do have one on my
tablet, but I think it's out of
batteries.
Uh hey, um
But like wait, do you have an Android by
any chance?
No, I used to have an Android. Okay.
Is it only Is it only on the
um Android Marketplace? It's not like
APK file
that you can download as well. No, no,
it's uh
Well,
I think on the iOS it's on the wait
list, but they just made it on Android.
That's cool though. I I I like that it's
taking into account like location.
Mhm. [clears throat]
um
And it's taking into account like um
I guess like
all their scan history stuff. So the
more people use it, the more it's going
to get better. So instead of just
relying on open AI
and real-time conversion, that's cool.
um
I think
one other thing that you could add is
like the you could make AI descriptions
as well, which is would be pretty cool,
too.
Just make that like just take a photo
and upload it and then maybe you could
hook it up to like the second hand
market, too, like where you could put
like
I don't know. Facebook Marketplace,
zero radius or something like this. I
don't remember at all. But you like you
hook up and then like in one picture you
could upload it to like several
marketplaces and manage it from there.
Who knows? But that's cool. I like it.
Yeah.
Okay, price it. If anybody has a
Android, please check it out. I guess of
you.
Our gentleman here. And
I guess like like a tea dude,
I think it'd be nice if you also make
like a little demo video for people who
don't have Android, that'd be sick.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Thank you. I like it. I
like this kind of stuff a lot.
I I like selling stuff on the used
marketplace, buying stuff from there,
too.
So
solves a real issue.
Yeah, this is really handy for resellers
as well like who want to go to garage
sales and they want to find prices for
stuff. That's so true. That is so true.
Yeah, and they're like oh, how much does
this cost and boom they find the price
real quick.
Gary
Gary like
adding like a demonstration kind of like
how to utilize it would be pretty cool
as well because when you see like a demo
like that's what gets people to buy.
>> [clears throat]
>> When you When you see someone basically
utilize it and just put it on either
mobile and desktop
I think that'd be really solid. All
right. All right. Yeah. I think Chris is
here as well, actually. It looks like a
you know, like Duolingo for code. I
thought it's done really well. Like it
looks like the same style.
um
Get started for free and then you get
like the SQL. I think they're in Kes
Dez. I don't know what language this is
in actually.
But um
Oh, Chris is here.
So the description here Okay, so you can
just go to your SQL. He said the back
end uses Spring Boot with Postgres SQL
database. That's awesome.
>> Loads the lesson content from a YAML
file at startup.
That's awesome.
So like uh which command do you use?
>> and TypeScript. That's cool.
>> That would be I like I like this a lot.
This is our This is really interesting.
It looks just like Duolingo.
What does create database if not exist
command
>> what's up, man? Chris is on the board.
Yeah, I'm not quite sure what this
means. I think it's German.
Like I don't know how much like this was
built just by hand cuz it should take a
long time.
But it reminds me of Duolingo a lot.
But um
I really like this.
Really interesting. It's fun.
Okay.
>> thread It's the Reddit clone. Oh, I
really like this one and I really like
how like in-depth it was. It was like
the Reddit clone and if they I like it I
liked it cuz
he added like the you know, the nuances
of like Reddit like
the comment like threads and stuff like
that, the up votes.
But done really well and um
Yeah, like this is a very complete
project, I think.
Like
it's really good.
And not enough people are using it. I
feel like if we change this to
put a little bit more I don't know.
If our community you wanted to use this,
it would be a really um
it'd be really interesting for us to use
and kind of
put on the map. I don't know if we have
the power to do that. I think we do have
the power to do that.
But that'll be really fun.
But yeah. I I think this is really well
built.
Uh has recently visited. You can see the
comments and you can see like the
threads.
Close threads.
I think that's really cool.
Um and then we'll just do one more. Is
that cool, Phil? Yeah. Okay, give me a
sec.
Lost that page real quick. Share.
I wanted to find the cloud one, the the
virtual world. Can't find it. I
think I have it in my uh thing.
Cloud cloud town.
Cloud town, yes. Let's see.
Um
This one's pretty cool. It looks like a
gather town a little bit.
Yep. Um I can you go in here, too, and
see if I can see you?
Yeah, let me just check it out real
quick. It's cloud town. I'll
I'll make it so
>> It's saying one player online right now.
Okay, cool. Come in.
I know with Discord. Let's see if that
works.
That's what I sign in with.
It's pretty cool. I can see that there's
two people online. I can see that I'm
moving very sparkly and I I'm by the
cloud house.
Oh, I see you guys. There. Yep. Now,
let's see if there's some interaction
that goes on.
Yeah. Wait, is there any interaction?
I guess not yet. Okay. Cuz like gather
town and stuff like that, you know, when
you come close to each other it opens up
like uh chance to chat with each other
and stuff like that. Like a like a
dialogue? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
there's no
It's pretty cool. I like it. I wonder
how they made it.
Right.
This is like a mini town.
Yeah, but this kind of stuff is like
really cool like if um
you know, if you're studying and you're
just like here it's like showing that
you're not alone studying or something,
you know?
Mhm. So you can just like
I don't know if you guys ever used
gather town, but it's like the same kind
of concept.
We should make Less Social into this
stuff.
That'd be sick. Kind of cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is pretty cool.
I like it a lot.
Awesome. Well, I think we'll pause it
here
and we'll just continue this maybe next
week. Yeah, let's do that.
Yeah, let's do we'll do another event,
the same one this week.
I mean next week and then we'll finalize
the winners and things like that
afterwards, but uh yeah.
>> talk about it later on. I you know, I
really like syntax owl. I like um price
it, but I would like to like um
kind of like actually use it.
Mhm. Verbatim was really cool.
Um
isochronal is really cool. But uh yeah,
I mean very good job everybody and um
uh we'll we'll take a more in-depth look
at all of the uh projects and uh we'll
come up with our some rankings. Um
They're all number one. To be honest,
they're all really good. But um you
know, we uh there we will choose a
winner and uh we'll reach out and um
we'll uh announce it as well. Yeah,
brilliant. Um please submit your
projects at Show and Tell. Thank you
very much and uh have a good one. All
right, everybody. Just remember, if I
can do it, you can do it, too. Coding
saves lives.
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This video features the Leftfield team reviewing various full-stack projects submitted by participants of a 31-day development challenge. The hosts discuss several applications, including a Seoul subway station analysis tool, an anime/manhua tracking app, an automated invoice reminder system for freelancers, an AI-powered object price scanner, a Duolingo-style SQL learning platform, a Reddit clone, and a virtual collaborative space. The hosts provide constructive technical feedback, praising the creativity and functionality of the projects while offering suggestions for future improvements.
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