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By ampish, history, 2 months ago, In English

Title: Built a 10-minute Interview Simulation Tool – Feedback Welcome

Hi,

I built a small side project to simulate explaining solutions under interview-style time pressure.

Idea:

-> 1 problem -> 10-minute timer -> User outlines approach (not full code)

System evaluates explanation quality

Evaluation focuses on:

  1. Problem understanding
  2. Algorithm choice
  3. Edge case awareness
  4. Time/space complexity discussion
  5. Optimization thinking

The focus is on reasoning clarity and structured communication, which is often evaluated in interviews.

I’m considering adding a lightweight editor later to simulate constrained coding, but the primary idea remains explanation quality.

Would genuinely appreciate technical feedback on:

The scoring approach:-

  • Limitations you see
  • Edge cases this might fail on

Link: https://instantprep.vercel.app

Feel free to share any feedbacks!

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wow! definitiely a nice idea

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nice

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I just checked it. It was a good experience but I wanted to say that you should add an archive of different easy, medium and hard problems so user could pick up the problem which he wants and then practice that

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    Thanks a lot @magnus_89

    That's actually a very nice suggestion, Sure would try to integrate this into next version Stay tuned for it Thanks!