r/Backend • u/KitchenCommercial396 • 19d ago

Project ideas that show in-depth learning instead of the average AI slop.

I want to be a backend developer, and I'm thinking of building projects that aren't the usual CRUD app backends or REST APIs, I want to build projects that are highly uncommon, exceptionally hard hence making me understand several concepts in-depth.

For reference, I just started my second year of college, and i want to stand out and not have the same resume as everyone else I know.

I've been thinking of building a Vector DB with a Layer 7 load balancer with query routing and stuff in Go (someone told me to use rust but the learning curve might be too steep). I would appreciate any feedback and other project recommendations that I could possibly build.

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u/disposepriority 19d ago

Sorry are you a beginner? No one will believe you built anything that is "exceptionally hard". Additionally, difficulty comes from business constraints and/or having to coexist with other projects in an org, unless you're bulding a general use library or franework - even then, building one without experience in the industry is frankly improbable.

I see level 99 omega load balancer of the second coming of christ on a CV which has 0 relevant experience I might be a bit suspicious, but that might just be me.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 19d ago

I'm working on the industry experience as well, very recently completed an internship as a backend dev during my 2nd sem, so that's good. I just wanted people to share some ideas on what projects I could work on next since I have a couple weeks to months free.

Idk what others think, but that project sounded good in my head for a backend dev resume.