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Portfolio Rank

The best developer portfolios, ranked

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Next.jsTypeScriptOpen source

The problem

Developer portfolios live in scattered lists and Twitter threads, sorted alphabetically at best. There is no good way to browse the genuinely great ones or learn what makes them work.

The build

1,700+ community-curated developer portfolios — browsable, searchable, and (soon) ranked by head-to-head human votes plus AI scoring instead of alphabetical order. Built on Emma Bostian's open developer-portfolios list.

Stack & choices

  • Next.js · TypeScriptApp Router site rendering the full searchable catalog
  • Tailwind CSSBrowse/search UI and portfolio cards
  • VercelHosting and deploys

Process notes

  1. 1

    Open source and community-built — the catalog grows from the same public list it started from.

  2. 2

    Ranking is the next chapter: head-to-head human votes plus AI scoring, replacing alphabetical order.

  3. 3

    Free, with a Ko-fi support link — stars and contributions welcome.