Every time I paired with someone on a bug, we ended up in the same loop — screenshots, zipped folders, or a screen-share nobody could type into. SnippetsX started as a fix for that one annoyance.

Freelance and self-taught projects reward polish. A product team rewards throughput. Ten months into a full-time Full Stack Engineer role, that's the biggest recalibration I've had to make.

It wasn't the frameworks. I knew React and Node before anyone paid me to use them. What changed between the self-learning years and the job is harder to put on a resume.