Projects

Projects that reveal how Matthieu thinks.

This page is no longer only a polished shelf. It is becoming a more alive project library, with motion, data-driven cards, and a clearer path for continuing edits from the website-side content system.

Hero project

Flagship v1 story

Dailysoup

A school forum built for posts, comments, polls, and student interaction. Matthieu built the frontend and backend himself, hosted it live for a period using AWS free credits, and treated it as a serious lesson in how real products behave once actual users and real deployment constraints show up.

Vite + React Node.js backend MongoDB Solo build

What it proves

Full-stack ownership

Frontend and backend both built solo
Real hosted deployment, not only local dev
Social-product scope with interaction and moderation complexity

Restoration path

Honest relaunch prep

Target public home remains dailysoup.matthieuobyrne.tech
Bootstrap config has been preserved separately for restoration work
Live linking stays deferred until DNS and TLS are properly ready

Open Dailysoup case study

Target relaunch address: dailysoup.matthieuobyrne.tech

This public website is not being used as a shortcut backend for Dailysoup. The relaunch path stays cleanly separate from Mission Control and from this static site shell.

Dynamic project library

Multiple supporting lanes now come from website-side content data.

The goal is a real project library, not a frozen wall of cards. This section is now fed from the personal website content source rather than living only as hardcoded HTML.

Dailysoup case study

Why Dailysoup still leads the page.

The strongest early project is not always the most polished one. It is the one that forced the most real ownership, exposed the most real complexity, and still says something important about future direction.

Project taste

What makes a project worth putting here.

The filter is not just novelty. The best work on this site should show initiative, real complexity, and some sign that Matthieu actually learned something difficult by building it.

Ownership

Built, not just assisted

The strongest projects show real authorship and responsibility for the outcome.

Depth

Interesting below the surface

The work should still look good once someone asks how it was built, why it mattered, and what was hard.

Direction

Points toward bigger things

Each project should connect to a larger arc around systems, products, design, engineering, or future technical work.