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How I Hacked Solo and Won $6,000 in a 4-Day Web3 Hackathon
A beginner's perspective.
Web2 Experience
First of all, although I have developed a few websites before, I wouldn't consider myself a web developer. It's true that I built and launched an e-commerce website for a company that I'm working for, but I don't think I'm qualified to be known as a developer because I used Wix and some basic Javascript for some backend stuff. In other words, my development skills pretty much revolve around Wix's drag-and-drop UI and some basic JS configuration.
Having said that, web development has piqued my interest intensely since I started building Wix websites in 2020. I started looking into REST APIs and tried understanding the entire workflow of full-stack development. Am I still a beginner? Yes, absolutely.
Web3 Experience
Since September 2021, I've been working on a very fun personal NFT project — Ollie's Audition Tapes, an NFT project with 10,000 animated GIFs and unique stories. Thanks to HashLip's video tutorials, like this one, I was able to write a basic NFT smart contract and deploy it to the Ethereum network. All I did was watch and follow his step-by-step instructions. As a result, other than the animations, everything was pretty much standardized by his tutorials…
