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How to Build a Personal Brand as a Developer: A Step-by-Step Guide

CodeBucks on February 24, 2025

Building a personal brand as a developer is essential in today's competitive tech landscape. It's not just about your coding skills; it's about how...
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Hardik Gohil

Just gave my portfolio a fresh look! πŸš€ Would love your feedback!

πŸ”— Check it out: hardikgohilhlr.tech

πŸ’¬ Drop your thoughts!

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CodeBucks

Looking goodπŸŽ‰

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Tinotenda Mhedziso

Amazing portfolio broπŸ”₯. The color scheme is simple and the design, sophisticated yet everything still works together perfectly.

Still working on mine, not a designer though so would also appreciate some feedbackπŸ˜…:

β™»My Portfolio

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Hardik Gohil

Animations are cool and specially the page loading animation is awesome, changing the color scheme would be a option otherwise looks solid πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

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Tinotenda Mhedziso

Hmmm would you recommend a more darker or lighter scheme ? I think the contrast is fine just making them work together is where I am having the issue. Thanks for the review though @hardikgohilhlr πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

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Hardik Gohil

It should be more lighter.

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Tinotenda Mhedziso

Okay thanks Hardik, I'll get to working on some more lighter colours.

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Simon Conrad

I love the spinner!

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Tinotenda Mhedziso

Hehe thanks @slyskillet 😌

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Paul Ghiran • Edited

To add to that, I'd also suggest a professional looking contact page, like centralfeedback.com/paulghiran if you don't have a website, because it's a really fast, few click solution to get memorable & shareable link where you can be contacted and also share your email or website, for free.

I also paste the QR the app generates in my presentations after giving a speech, so it also replaces the need for a linktree account.

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CodeBucks

Good pointπŸ‘πŸ»

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Andres Urdaneta • Edited

Sounds like a full time job! I always wonder how some people I look up to have the time.

I’m currently trying and I find difficult to balance doing the main job, keeping up to date and building a personal brand.

I guess one gets better and faster with consistency!

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CodeBucks

You are not wrong. It takes time to create quality content. You just need to be more consistent plus you can also schedule multiple content across different platforms.

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Frantbee

I often think about it, but I'm still not sure if it's within my capabilities

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CodeBucks

It's all about experiments. You won't know unless you try. Whenever I find any problem outside of my capabilities I tend to break it down into smaller problems and at the end there must be many smaller problems that you could easily solve.

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Aavash Parajuli

Now, this is what i call is a great post, complete human written with a lot to learn

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CodeBucks

Thanks for your kind wordsπŸ˜‡

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Aavash Parajuli

You're welcome. πŸ€—

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nadeem zia

Good information was provided, keep it up.

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CodeBucks

Thank you so much! I'm glad you found it helpful.

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Simon Conrad

Personal branding is tough, but also an interesting game to be a part of. Lot's of really valuable thoughts here - thanks for sharing!

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CodeBucks

Thank you! I couldn’t agree more, personal branding is definitely a challenging yet rewarding.

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Tinotenda Mhedziso

Highly Appreciate the valuable shareπŸ‘

What's the point of building an amazing house in the middle of nowhere where no one can live? Same can be said with our code and social presence 🌟

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CodeBucks

Well saidπŸ‘πŸ»

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Marius Anghel

This is a great introductory guide on how to build a strong personal online brand.

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CodeBucks

Glad you liked it!πŸ˜‡

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nadeem zia • Edited

Good explanation

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Franklin Strube

Great tips in here!

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CodeBucks

Glad you liked it!πŸ˜‡

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Manuel Pineda • Edited

Very thorough and detailed information, much appreciated!

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CodeBucks

I’m so happy you found the guide useful! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment! πŸ˜‡