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Build your own Git/Docker/Redis (advanced programming challenges)

Hey HN! I spent the last year building a programming challenges site targeted at intermediate/advanced programmers [1]. Challenges follow the "Build your own X" format, where you learn about a popular open source tool by building a small version yourself (popularized by this Github repo [2]). The primary difference compared to other coding challenge websites like Codecademy, HackerRank, Exercism etc. is that we offer real-world programming challenges - no inverting binary trees here! I've posted about this multiple times here before, but haven't managed to gather much interest. Trying…

Build your own Git/Docker/Redis (advanced programming challenges) launched on January 31, 2021 with 6 votes, #1,262 of 3,157 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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