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README.md

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 ### Makers Academy (March-July 2023)
 
-- Followed **Agile best practices** to build software as part of **teams of 5 - 7 devs**, strengthening skills of **effective communication, strong ticket creation, good use of Git and Github, and thorough testing**.
-- Built **full stack web apps**, both from scratch, and extended from legacy code. 
-- Built a **mobile app** using React Native that uses multiple third party APIs.
+- Followed **Agile best practices** to build software as part of **teams of 5 - 7 devs**, strengthening skills of **effective communication, strong ticket creation, good use of Git and Github, pair programming, and thorough testing**.
+- Built **full stack web and mobile apps**, developed user-friendly front ends and well crafted APIs.
 - Designed and used both **SQL and NoSQL databases** using PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
 - **Switched quickly between various languages and frameworks**, learning them as and when needed.
 - Used **test-driven development** (TDD) throughout with various testing frameworks, such as Jest, Rspec and Cypress.
 - Built a strong foundation of **object-oriented design** using Ruby and Javascript in several solo challenges.
 
 ## Projects
 
+### [**Plant Points**](https://github.com/ev-th/plant-points)
+
+`Next.js | Typescript | React | Tailwind CSS | Prisma | PlanetScale | Clerk | Vitest`
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+- **Web app** that keeps track of the variety of plant-based foods a user eats. Inspired by [The Gut Health Doctor](https://www.theguthealthdoctor.com/30-plant-points).
+- Plant points are calculated based on the user's consumption of unique plant-based ingredients over the last 7 days.
+- Built with Next.js, using the App router and React server components.
+- Authentication with Clerk. Users can sign in with their Google or Github accounts, or email.
+
 ### [**Flock**](https://github.com/ev-th/Flock)
 
 `Javascript | MongoDB | Express | React Native | NodeJS | Jest | React Testing Library`
 
 - **Mobile app** to help people decide which activities to do together, developed in an agile team of 5 devs.
 - Generates activities based on input location using Google and OpenAI.
 - Asynchronously, users select preferred activities using a swipe feature. They can then see their matching activities.
-- No user sign up by using linking with Expo and local storage.
-
-### [**Acebook**](https://github.com/ev-th/acebook-fire)
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-`Javascript | MongoDB | Express | React | NodeJS | Jest | Cypress`
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-- **Social Media web app** based on Facebook, developed in an agile team of 7 devs.
-- We inherited a simple codebase and learned the necessary technologies to fix bugs and extend functionality.
-- Features include authenticating user login using JWT, likes and comments, remote image storage with Cloudinary.
+- No user sign up needed by using linking with Expo and local storage.
 
 ### [**Merge Masters BnB**](https://github.com/CKMurison/makersbnb-ruby-seed)
 
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 ### Big Picture View
 
-I take care to understand how the various moving parts of a company work together to build and release a successful product. As a Product Development Manager at a small business, I wore many hats, working on product design and development, all the way to release and shipping. This gave me valuable insight into how all stages of the product lifecycle are connected and inform each other. For that role, this meant taking into account possible production practices and associated costs while designing product, or merchandising a website informed by knowledge of social media marketing or packaging and shipping. During Makers group projects, this skill was useful for splitting tickets effectively while still taking into account how they interact with each other, and never losing sight of the project's larger goal while working on database schema or a React component for example.
+I take care to understand how the various moving parts of a company work together to build and release a successful product. As a Product Development Manager at a small business, I wore many hats, working on product design and development, all the way to release and shipping. This gave me valuable insight into how all stages of the product lifecycle are connected and inform each other. For that role, this meant developing an understanding of global supply chains: the options they gave us and the issues that could (and did) arise from them. It also meant taking into account possible production practices and associated costs while designing product, or merchandising a website informed by knowledge of social media marketing or packaging and shipping. During Makers group projects, this skill was useful for splitting tickets effectively while still taking into account how they interact with each other, and never losing sight of the project's larger goal while working on database schema or a React component for example.
 
-### User Focus and Adaptability
+### User Focus and Communication
 
-In all my professional roles, I have been in close proximity to the end user, often communicating with them directly. Both in care and retail, being able to understand a user and adapt communication styles with them was vital. In product development, I consistently worked to improve sales by adapting our strategy based on what was selling well and how the customer was using our products. When designing something new and the risk didn't pay off, it was easy to change direction more quickly based on this.
+In all my professional roles, I have been in close proximity to the end user, often communicating with them directly. Both in care and retail, being able to listen to and understand a user and adapt communication styles for them was vital. In product development, I consistently worked on adapting our strategy based on what sold well and how the customer was using our products. With a variety of customer roles, such as online retail, wholesale, or marketing partners, users were not a monolith so product and communication had to be adaptable. I also find working in teams to be incredibly rewarding. In small in-person teams while working in care, the day-to-day work was unpredictable. I developed the skills to communicate when I needed help and provide support to those who needed it when I was capable. At Sukrew, I liaised daily with global team members in China, India and Hungary. I was able to adjust my communication style based on their technical knowledge, listen to and articulate their priorities, and manage expectations when necessary.
 
 ### Prioritising
 
-I am able to effectively prioritise tasks using limited time and resources. At a fashion retail company, I identified changes that could save time and money, such as moving to a more user-friendly e-commerce platform, and working with more specialised manufacturers. Prioritising these when faced with many other day-to-day urgent tasks was difficult to sell to the director, but the business became profitable, and is now scaling much more easily because of these changes. This skill translated well into our final project at Makers, when tasked with completing our MVP by the end of day two. Despite coming up with a much more complex product during ideation, I found ways to strip away as many features as possible while leaving the core idea intact. This meant we had a working MVP to try out well within our deadline, and a great foundation from which to begin adding features.
+I am able to effectively prioritise tasks using limited time and resources. At a fashion retail company, I identified changes that could save time and money, such as moving to a more user-friendly e-commerce platform, and working with more specialised manufacturers. Prioritising these when faced with many other day-to-day urgent tasks was difficult to sell to the director, but the business became profitable, and is now scaling much more easily because of these changes. This skill translated well into our final project at Makers, when tasked with completing our MVP by the end of day two. Despite coming up with a much more complex product during ideation, I found ways to strip away as many features as possible while leaving the core idea intact. This meant we had a working MVP to test out well within our deadline, and a great foundation from which to begin adding features.
 
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