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I'll be honest, this is a great start and a good app that not a lot of people would achieve and deliver. Hopefully this feedback can be constructive.

It does not feel like a modern "professional" app though, the design is extremely lacking and not something you'd see from an intermediate+ frontend dev.

The "New lesson" part doesn't work because it's behind an auth check, but there's no error message and it's displayed as an unauth'd user.

There's a bunch of console errors everywhere for undefined objects.

It's basically a reskinned version of this https://riju.codes/, so nothing of major complexity was done here.

That said, delivering this is impressive, especially for a more junior developer. This is major step towards building up your career and I'm looking forward to see more!



The design is fine, it’s totally functional, perfect for a developer focused site and quite refreshing actually.

Great that you’ve pointed out a couple of bugs but I’ve seen “senior” developers who couldn’t conceive of, build and deploy anything close to this.

There’s enough here to build a SaaS business out, and the OP can be CEO, CTO or whatever title they want


Yeah I totally agree, OP is definitely further off in delivery and self-drive than most developers, senior or otherwise.

I just meant to give him fair feedback to keep him growing. Design is subjective, so if most here people love it, it must mean it appeals to its audience!


Appreciate the feedback and I don't disagree! I definitely would love to work more on the design and general "smooth-ness" of the app. I've been focused on functionality and driving towards something that works. Time to tighten some screws!

PS, did you interview me last year at Codecademy? ;)


I didn't, I never heard of the company before this.


> It does not feel like a modern "professional" app though

True, it feels better that the standard "modern professional" design that you see nowadays, that it is just boring. Here you see some personality and functionality.


I disagree about the design. The layout of the app is fine, and its very functional and easy to use. The only problem is the colors. That blue has to go.


If you sign up you can change the theme in settings!


Agreed, more neutral color is needed. Also, the contrast/thickness of the borders is way too high. Funny, because I usually complain contrast is too low for typical sites.

I also had trouble reading the About... tooltip. I'd probably move that to the sidebar?




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