Supercharge your front-end skills by building real projects
Hi HN! I'm Matt, founder of Frontend Mentor (https://www.frontendmentor.io). We provide front-end and full-stack coding challenges with professional Figma designs, enabling developers to build real projects and grow their skills. The problem: AI coding tools are great, but they can work against you when you're learning. Ask Copilot or Cursor to help with a beginner project, and they'll happily write the whole thing for you. You ship the project, but you didn't really learn anything. What we did: We added AGENTS.md (and CLAUDE.md) files to every challenge's starter code. These files…
Supercharge your front-end skills by building real projects launched on October 10, 2018 with 32 votes, #916 of 2,827 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
Frontend Mentor is a free platform where developers practice coding by building real projects based on professional Figma designs and briefs. Users work with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node, and other technologies while receiving AI code reviews that identify their strengths and weaknesses. The platform includes a community where developers review each other's work, helping them develop the skills and judgment needed for employment. Free members receive one monthly review, while Pro subscribers get unlimited reviews and a detailed skills profile.
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From the sources
Build frontend and full-stack projects with professional Figma designs. Practice HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node, and more for free.
Build real projects to professional designs and briefs, get AI code reviews that build a profile of your strengths, and grow alongside a community reviewing each other’s code. Join 1,194,697 developers building the skills and judgment that get them hired. Free members get one review a month. Go Pro for a review on every submission and a skills profile that fills out as fast as you build. " I highly recommend Frontend Mentor. Skip the search for project ideas and dive into ready-made challenges that help you level up as a developer. " " Frontend Mentor is a win-win. You can sharpen your skills building websites and add finished projects to your portfolio to help land a job! " Pick from 120+…from frontendmentor.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN! I'm Matt, founder of Frontend Mentor (https://www.frontendmentor.io). We provide front-end and full-stack coding challenges with professional Figma designs, enabling developers to build real projects and grow their skills. The problem: AI coding tools are great, but they can work against you when…
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