By skyforbes Tired of building to-do apps and weather dashboards for the portfolio. Every time you sent your resume to a company worth more than your college’s annual budget, the same result: “ghosting”.
Here is a project suggested by ChatGPT to get hired in a $100M company.
I opened ChatGPT and asked: “Suggest a MERN stack app idea that could get me hired at a $100M company.”
ChatGPT suggested building CollabBoard — a real-time collaborative whiteboard and document system. Think Miro meets Notion, but you built it from scratch.
Here’s why this project is different from the usual portfolio fillers:
- It forces you to solve actual engineering problems. You’re not just connecting a React frontend to an Express backend. You’re dealing with WebSockets, conflict resolution, state reconciliation, and horizontal scaling. These are the conversations that happen in senior developer interviews.
- It demonstrates product thinking. Companies don’t just want coders — they want people who understand what makes products work. When you build real-time collaboration features, you’re thinking about user experience, edge cases, and performance bottlenecks.
- It shows you can ship…