New Hire Test Assignment

New Hire Test Assignment

# New Hire Test Assignment

Hey 👋

Thanks for taking the time. We're a small studio team, so we don't really care about job titles — what we care about is whether you can **learn fast, build stuff, and get shit done**.

This little assignment is how we figure that out.

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## The Deal

- ⏰ **Deadline:** 7 days from when you receive this
- 💵 **Compensation:** A small thank-you fee for your time, if you complete it
- 📦 **Delivery:** Everything goes on GitHub (public or private repo, just give us access)

That's it. No tricks.

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## What We're Looking At

We're not grading you on perfection. We want to see:

- How you **learn** something new when you don't already know it
- How you **build** when no one's holding your hand
- How you **ship** — actually finishing and making it usable

If you can deliver the two things below, you're done. No bonus points for over-engineering.

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## What To Build

### 1. A Runnable Blog System (Web App)

A simple blog with **3 pages**:

- **List page** — shows all posts
- **Post detail page** — shows a single post
- **Tag page** — shows all posts under a given tag

**No design required.** Plain text with `<a>` links is totally fine. We don't care how it looks — we care that it works.

**The real goal:** an AI agent should be able to **clone, install, run the server, and cron the script from #2 — with zero human intervention.** (Some light human setup for *this* assignment is acceptable, but the closer to fully automatic, the better.)

So when you build it, keep asking yourself: *"Could Claude / Cursor / an agent do this end-to-end on a fresh machine?"*

**Requirements:**

- Clean `README` with copy-pasteable commands (`git clone` → install → run → done)
- No hidden manual steps (no "now go click this button in some dashboard" unless absolutely necessary — and if so, document it clearly)
- Bonus if you **deploy it** to Cloudflare / Vercel / Netlify / wherever you're comfortable. Send us the live URL.

Stack is your choice. Use whatever you're fastest in.

### 2. A "Find & Publish Next Article" Script

One script (or one markdown workflow file) that:

- Finds / generates the next article (you decide how — this is just a test, we're not strict about the source or method)
- Tags it
- Publishes it to the blog system from #1

**Requirements:**

- Must be **one command to run**. Either a single script, or a markdown file we can follow / paste into something like Claude / ChatGPT / n8n / whatever.
- Don't overthink it. Show us your approach to wiring things together.

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## Ground Rules

- Use any tools, libraries, frameworks, or AI assistants you want. We don't care *how* you build it — we care that it works.
- If you get stuck, ask. We'd rather you ask than guess silently for 3 days.
- If you can't finish everything, ship what you have and tell us what's left. We respect honesty more than excuses.

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## Submission

When you're done, send us:

1. **GitHub repo link** (with a clear README)
2. **Live URL** if deployed
3. A short note (a few sentences is fine) on:
   - What you'd improve if you had another week
   - Anything you learned along the way

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Good luck — looking forward to seeing what you build. 🚀