22. Shipping label tracker
Shipping label tracker is an ecommerce operations app for managing products, listings, orders, pricing, or marketplace work.
Why employers care
This shows practical experience with the kind of marketplace and admin workflows many small businesses actually need.
Main build outline
- Model the Shipping label tracker workflow around products, SKUs, statuses, notes, and action history.
- Use SQL Server for products, vendors, marketplace records, prices, and audit fields.
- Build searchable admin screens with filters, totals, and export-ready tables.
- Host on SmarterASP first, then add Azure storage, background jobs, or API integrations as stretch goals.
Modern .NET stack
- Frontend: Blazor Server or ASP.NET Core MVC/Razor Pages.
- Backend: C# services, validation, dependency injection, and clean folders.
- Database: SQL Server locally, then SmarterASP SQL Server or Azure SQL.
- Hosting: SmarterASP for simple portfolio hosting, or Azure/AWS for cloud practice.
- Stretch: GitHub Actions, Docker, dashboards, and small AI helper features.
Portfolio proof
- README with problem, screenshots, tech stack, and setup notes.
- GitHub commits that show steady feature development.
- Sample data that looks like a real business workflow.
- No secrets in source control.