something insane happened on a UK competition site recently. one guy won 3 huge prizes within the span of a week. he supposedly bought thousands of entries, but still the odds seem crazy. many people now review bombing the site but they maintain that everything is above board
a big part of the coding process is the refactors along the way. Scaling your solution to handle more edge cases, understanding why things need to be organized a certain way.
You can't learn those lessons by outsourcing that journey. That makes you a user not a developer
@viii_fn build anything for the sake of understanding how it works. Stay curious. Don't think about it too much, momentum is the most important thing and when an idea pops up that you just have to build, then you can always pivot :)