Choose a data career path, complete real guided projects, and watch your portfolio fill automatically. Each project is validated and added to your live portfolio. Certificates say you watched a course. A portfolio proves you can do the work. Recruiters can tell the difference
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Hey Product Hunt! π
Marius here, founder of d8a academy.
I built D8A Academy because I kept seeing the same story: people finish a data course, get a certificate, apply to 100 jobs... and hear nothing back. The problem isn't the learning. It's that a certificate says you watched a course. A portfolio says you can do the work. Recruiters can tell the difference.
So d8a flips the model. Instead of videos and quizzes, you build real projects with real datasets across 4 career paths (Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist). Every project you complete goes straight into a public portfolio page you can put on your CV and LinkedIn. We even validate your work against your GitHub repo before it counts.
A few things I'm proud of:
π οΈ Project-first: you write real SQL, Python and dashboards from day one
π Auto-built portfolio: a recruiter-ready page that grows as you ship
π³ A skill tree covering all 4 data paths, so you always know what's next
π Weekly challenges + leaderboard to keep the momentum going
π₯ A community of 1,000+ aspiring data professionals learning and building together
π Free to start: sign up, explore the paths, and try a full foundations course without paying anything
I'd genuinely love your feedback, especially if you're breaking into data right now or you hire data people: what would make a portfolio actually convince you?
I'll be here all day answering questions. Ask me anything! π
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Love the portfolio focus, thatβs a real differentiator. One thing that would help: let learners write a short reflection or results summary for each completed project, since recruiters usually skim and a few lines explaining the problem you solved and the outcome could make a portfolio entry way more compelling than just a project title.
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@roy_megΒ Nice Idea ! We will try to add add this :)
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Tried it for an hour and the portfolio auto-fill actually works, which was a nice surprise. The guided projects feel closer to real work than most bootcamp stuff I've poked at.
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@bingcrosbyΒ Thanks for the feedback ! If you have some feedback to improve we have a Discord with the community were you can suggest new features and share your work :)
Love the portfolio focus, thatβs a real differentiator. One thing that would help: let learners write a short reflection or results summary for each completed project, since recruiters usually skim and a few lines explaining the problem you solved and the outcome could make a portfolio entry way more compelling than just a project title.
@roy_megΒ Nice Idea ! We will try to add add this :)
Tried it for an hour and the portfolio auto-fill actually works, which was a nice surprise. The guided projects feel closer to real work than most bootcamp stuff I've poked at.
@bingcrosbyΒ Thanks for the feedback ! If you have some feedback to improve we have a Discord with the community were you can suggest new features and share your work :)