• Web Development Tutorials: Build out articles and video tutorials to help non-technical founders quickly gain the technical knowledge to build their startups without needing a technical founder.
• Include a Social element where a community of users can stay accountable to groups and each other on their journey to be better developers.
• Implement a ‘mentor’ function where users can ask questions of specific community members designated as ‘Mentors’ and get 1-on-1 feedback, rewarding mentors with ‘knowledge points’ in the process.

I graduated university with a degree in Economic and Finance. I worked at financial institutions and banks for almost a decade before I started teaching a class on Affordable European travel. As I was teaching this class I asked an acquaintance to build me a forum based website for my class. I was floored by the price quoted: $1700 US (a bargain today!). I decided ‘I could do this myself’. And so launched a change of careers and almost a decade of self-pity and a soul-crushing journey through web development.

I’ve read countless books and blogs, followed too many tutorials to remember, and watch hundreds of hours of videos. I’ve taken a long time to learn the hard way, and probably a lot of WRONG WAYS, and have gotten to a point where I feel I still don’t know enough. So I’m going to try to cut through all the garbage that I went through to distill what a non-technical maker needs to know to go from zero to MVP (minimum viable product) as quickly as possible.

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