What is 286-builds?

This repository is a public index of a personal coding challenge called 286 Builds. The idea is simple: each entry in the list is a separate project, built from start to finish in a single day and then pushed live to its own GitHub repository, with some builds later expanded through further work and a real commit history you can follow. This particular repo does not contain the projects themselves. Instead, it acts as a directory or table of contents, listing every build completed so far along with its date, a short description, a link to the actual project repo, and the main technology used to build it. As of the current snapshot, 19 builds are listed, covering a wide mix of languages and tools including Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Ruby, PHP, Java, and C#. Each linked project follows the same house rules: a full README, a changelog, a real sequential commit history, and either a live demo link or clear instructions for running it locally. The projects range from small utilities, like a duplicate file finder or a string helper library, to more involved tools such as a chat server, a house price prediction app, and a budget tracker. For a non-technical reader, the value here is less about any single project and more as a browsable log of someone learning and building in public. If you are curious what a particular build looks like, the description and link in the table point you to a working, documented repository you can open and explore on your own. There is no installation process for this index repo itself since it mainly holds data files and generated summary pages that track the series.