Workstation topics · Interview and job basics for AI-era builders
Show what you've built
🏠The everyday picture
A tailor looking for work doesn't bring a certificate; they bring a few finished garments. A customer can feel the stitching, try on the fit and ask "how did you do this collar?". For a builder, your finished projects are your garments.
📘What it really is
A portfolio is a small set of your best work that people can see and try. For a builder:
- Two or three projects that work beat ten half-finished ones.
- Each project gets a short project page (often a README file on GitHub) that answers:
- The problem and who it's for, in two sentences.
- What it does, with two or three screenshots or a live link.
- What you decided: the tools you chose and why (Choosing Your Tools helps here).
- How you checked it: what you tested, and one bug you found and fixed.
- What AI did, and what you did (Lesson 2).
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What you'd do next, if you had another month.
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Keep private data out. Use made-up customers and test payment keys; never show real people's phone numbers, passwords or secret keys, even in a screenshot.
📝A worked example
Asha's project page for her stock sheet app:
Shop Stock Helper. Small shops in Patna lose sales when popular items run out without anyone noticing. This web app tracks stock and lists what to reorder each evening.
Built with: HTML, JavaScript and a Google Sheet as the store, because the shop already uses Sheets and needs no server bill.
Checked by: testing with 30 made-up items, and a week of use by one real shop. Found and fixed one bug: items with exactly the reorder number weren't flagged (I changed
<to<=).AI's part: wrote most of the first code from my plan. My part: the plan, the choice of tools, all testing, the reorder rule, and the bug fix.
Next: a weekly summary message to the owner.
🖱️Try it
Choose one thing you've built, even a small one: a spreadsheet, a website, an automation, a Builder Path project. Write its project page with all six parts. Keep it under one screen. Then ask a friend to read it and tell you, in their own words, what the project does. If they can't, make the first two sentences clearer.
✅Quick check
Why are two working projects better than ten unfinished ones?
Show the answer
Because an employer can try them and see that you finish things. Unfinished projects only show that you start them.
Your screenshot shows a real customer's phone number. What do you do?
Show the answer
Replace it with made-up data or blur it before sharing. A portfolio must never expose real people's details.
🧩Check yourself
Tap an answer to see why every option is right or wrong. There's no score and nothing is saved, so try as often as you like.