Let's talk about portfolio copying

Well a lot of people started copying my portfolios. Sometimes I even get some DMs like if it is ok to completly rip off my design of this website.

And you know what? Yeah, do whatever you want. But this only shows that you are not a good designer. I get it if you are like backend dev or smth, but then when I see on your portfolio like “Front-End Engineer” I’m like, will I need to hire someone that can’t create their own design of webpage?

Yeah, this website isn’t 100% my idea too

And that is ok. Inspiration is ok, copying part of webpage is ok, but copying the whole site only punishes you - the developer.

Creating portfolio as a excercise

Personally creating a good portfolio is it’s own project that you can then put in your portfolio, and you can learn a lot creating your first fully custom made portoflio. No templates, no fully coded by chatgpt or whatever you use nowadays.

The worst thing you can do

Putting screenshot of my website to some AI that will generate the code for you. Like yeah use template at that point. At least the code would be more understandable and not from some AI.

Not shaming anyone but I tried searching “Jakub Žitník” and look at the pages that I do not own. And this came up:

The most funny thing is the webpage generated by v0 doesn’t look anything like my website.