What to do when you have done nothing? Portfolio Challenge Entry

This is a submission for the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Presented by Google AI

About Me

Hi everyone! I am a 1st year CS student from India striving to pursue my passion of learn and create. A lot of bumps, twists and turns in the road led me to this amazing field, where now I feel at home. Apart from my focus on learning CS fundamentals, I love to play sports (table tennis and basketball are my favs) and make beats and compose scores on FL Studio.

This portfolio is a representation of a launchpad of an ambitious student. While I may not have much to show right now, you can be assured that there will be a lot of it in the near future.

“Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.” —Muhammad Ali

Portfolio

https://portfolio-service-862693525395.us-central1.run.app

How I Built It

As I try to make clear in my rather scant portfolio, my current focus has allowed me no resources to invest in skills necessary to build portfolio websites like this one, so AI was my best buddy in this journey. I used Google AI Studio for the scaffold and then moved on to Google Antigravity for more advanced development. I tried to use the best practices as a vibe-coder (spec sheet, AGENT.md, prompt design etc.) to make the most out of the incredible power that Antigravity offers.

Here is the technical implementation overview of my portfolio (AI-generated):

• Framework: React 19 + TypeScript
• Build Tool: Vite 6
• Styling: Tailwind CSS 3.4
• Animations: Framer Motion 12
• Icons: Lucide React
• Deployment: Google Cloud Run (containerized with Nginx)

What I'm Most Proud Of

I am not at the stage where I have a lot of technically impressive and impactful projects to showcase, so this portfolio was really about accentuating my personality, my driving force and my direction as an aspiring founder/researcher in the tech space. For a fairly rushed project, I am very proud of the message I was able to convey through the simple but focused design and the truly heartfelt content. I was also inspired by the insanely beautiful and elaborate loading screens of fellow participants and decided to add a loading screen visualizing a sorting algorithm (bubble and merge sort). I feel pure joy whenever I watch it in action. So much so that I added a reload button in the header bar just so I can see it whenever I want without completely reloading the page (useless perhaps, but idc :). It's a raw representation of my current struggles with grappling DSA and the quirks of C++.

Hope you like it! (My first dev.to post btw, so happy to be here!)