SMUMods is a sort of utopian incubator for student projects.
Students work on something that interests them. And that something is also feasible as a feature on SMUMods.
These projects could be ideas ranging from:
a simple data model that recommends the best modules to bid for or maybe a bidding price
a chat service that allows students to build meaningful communities with a ledger (you get rewarded for doing certain things)
or something as Low level as optimising the response time of our entire platform.
or something as complex as turning the entire platform into a micro service architecture
many others, you get the idea
All of which while taking into realistic considerations such as cost, feasibility and coherence to the vision and mission – to improve student life.
These projects, as they are practical and turned into real products used by thousands of students, makes it more meaningful as a side project. This is because you're no longer building something that's a proof of concept. You're now forced to understand how solutions are built for the real-world, for real usage in ever dynamic environments.
In addition, it’s also about providing a support community with people that are more experienced in various things. We would all then try to help each other and provide peer support in forms like: working on it together, teaching you the ropes if you’re a new developer, teaching each other how to learn more effectively.
These are things I wished existed for me as a student. I didn’t have these opportunities then but I’ve created it for myself, albeit a bit late for myself, but hopefully they will serve as a potential pathway for many more junior developers in the months and years to come.
I hope contributors to SMUMods will understand how:
to build a product or feature from scratch with their own hands
own something and acquire users from scratch (and learn how to from people who have been there) — think of PG’s do things that don’t scale
how to learn better and how to work more effectively in a team
how to think larger than merely building a side project for fun (I want you to consider the business implications and costs)
Could SMUMods be a launch pad for students to go into:
FAANG or equivalent startups/businesses
do their own startup
Indie Hack?
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