Three projects I'd actually talk about in an interview, written up as essays rather than card galleries. Problem, attempts, what worked, what I'd do differently.
A first-party visitor tracker I built to replace shared analytics across my portfolio projects. Bot/human verdict logic, offline GeoIP, one `<script>` tag per site.
A senior-project admin dashboard for a nonprofit. I ended up owning the backend, the monitoring, and the deploy story, and it taught me more than most courses.
A contractor-estimate tool I co-built with a friend. What started as a form-fillout became a small workflow engine — and a lesson in scope.