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is it just me or audio volume is very low

Lol💪

are u planning to raise any investment for making a dedicated app for this?

Many SaaS products have long low period before hitting any sort of hockey-stick growth, which is the result of the groundwork laid during those slower periods. When we joined YCombinator some companies in our cohort hit $1 million ARR in a year, while it took us like three years... Just keep on at it! Growth is generally is due to marketing traction. Retention is then more the functionality and market fit. I think you just need to be more intentional with marketing to see proper validation. A natural marketing angle to start would be to leverage your YT to expose your product more - maybe use your product in the context of building Notibly. Not exactly the "student" use-case but you're basically learning things to build your startup. It's essentially a learning management app so just use it to manage your startup learning stuff. Seems like a win-win - you're visually showing how your app works, you're genuinely using it to manage your learning to build your startup so it doesn't seem forced, and it's in line with your YT channel which is documenting the startup life. If you're getting things done, accomplishing goals, your YT channel grows, then it's a testament that your app works and helps with learning. Who knows, you've got a strong business startup niche viewership, you might even pivot the app to focus on helping solo dev startups rather than students if it works well for you haha Also, nice to see you whip out your laptop and grinding during your travels!

Nice yap session. lmao I learned a lot when I was integrating stripe to my app too. How everything was connected to each other, didn't know I had to setup a server for stripe's callback/notifications.

so glad I found this channel! i also started documenting my startup journey so i can look back at it. It's tough but just gotta keep going :)

What's your stack?

I'm also in the progress of developing my own saas product and I do hear you about doubts and worrying about comitting all this time to something that is not guaranteed but from what I see you're doing an incredible job. I think it be best to give it your all because the worst thing that could happen is it doesn't work out, but it comes with learning a lot about all the experiences you went through and now you have a project to base your next idea on. And the next project won't take as long because you know how to do stuff like setup stripe, etc. I personally love creating a project that would help somebody out there. I would be so very ecstatic if I had even one person using my site but I'm personally nowhere near that stage yet. The way I see it is if the product is good and solves their problem the people will come. Anyways I don't want to create the next bible in the youtube comments so good luck hopefully everything works out for ya!

You definitely dont need to build it prior to validation, thats the whole point of landing pages with signups and marketing.

This should have been two different videos man, 2 minutes in i was wondering what the hell i clicked on. The title doesn't relate at all to the first half of the video.. remember all the potential viewers. as a first time viewer of your channel i have no idea what your about., No hate, just heads up of my point of view for creating and building your channel. ✌

lo-fi is the shit during this phase

Just found your channel and I think you're doing amazing, especially considering that you're a solo dev from what I can tell. If I could say one thing, I'd say that once a source of inspiration starts to breed toxic expectation within yourself, you need to let go of that inspiration. You're at a stage where you're focused on action, while comparing to those focusing on growth...

why not make it 1 time payment ? students won't really want to pay monthly it would be hard to really convince them.

Good video as always, keep it up.

what can you do ! devoloper most loved word haha deno error represents every dev life

Its really good hearing your thoughts. You can do it Man

lesgoo man , much love from china as usual hh

"Let’s go, brother! I’m loving your vibe - I’m literally on the same path as you!"

let's gooooooooo bro.

Hello Thank you for sharing. I will share this verse from the religious book of islam. The Quran. Where god says, 88:17 أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ ١٧ Do they not ever reflect on camels-how they were ˹masterfully˺ created; - Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran

can't agree more, keep going!!

lol !!! the dog thou

Red flags, I had a job in marketing do that, He was so like Im the CEO, So I can make you feel this or that way, and didnt even feel like he didnt want to talk to me.. Im like why are you even interviewing people

Them: "What's your salary expectation?" Me: "I'm flexible on that depending on the budget for the position." 80%-90% of the time they give me the budget for the position and you can pick from there.

Hey do you wanna connect?..want to build something together if you are available and interested.

At least next interviews will probably feel VERY good compared to this one!

If you have nothing to lose mindset then why are you saying that you were "set up for a failure" or didn't have any number in your mind?

Big props for being transparent, man. Everybody said already how unprofessional that hiring process was, but you will not need to wait too long until you will need to hire few people quick and might do same hiring mistakes. I have been interviewing a lot of people and sometimes HR process didn't work well and you (technical person on a team) will end-up interviewing a candidate that was clearly far from needed skill set. The company I work for now can afford me spending time with struggling candidate for an hour, even though I know from first 10 minutes we will not hire the candidate. But a small startup when it has short budget it has to do things quickly. Haha, but again, it will not take long until you will be making video on how you had to cut interview short with a candidate after 9 minutes.

Also bro dont blame yourself for not knowing an easy question and calling yourself unqualified. Even if that was the case (which I dont think it is) they still treated you unprofessionally

"Who are these people" is the right question. I just wonder in this chase for bottomline what kind of jerks have companies ended up with. This will eventually bite these companies

that shows how they work as a company, so technically you dodged a bullet. Fortunately there are many great companies that don't make hell for themselves and for the people that are interviewing

Lol what an unprofessional company.

Name and shame the company, thats so unprofessional. It's not your fault at all

Thanks for sharing your interview experience man. I want to say dude your ideology on how they treat tech interviews i agree with 100%. Take that as motivation mate to build out and double down on your startup and "when" you get to the point of hiring or interviewing make the change you want to see in how devs are hired.

Bro that interview was hilarious 😂😂😂😂

You started the interview off by saying you know nothing about the company? Don't think that's a good way to start personally lol. You should have done your due dillegance sir. Learn and grow. Just some constructive criticism. I'm not done with the video, but like wtf was the coding question?? All I got was you had to map over 2 things..

architecture is hard to talk about when ur entry level. def do endorse just building, naturally u will get better at architecture because of its need for bigger projects

I get what you mean at the end of the video. I am currently completing a CS degree and I have classmates that spend every day coding for fun. Like building classic projects and learning new skills. Not particularly building anything useful just learning more about coding. I have zero desire to do that. I want to be a business owner and entrepreneur. I love coming up with ideas and trying to build something useful. Coding is a way for me to do that.

That part about the "would you still enjoy coding if you couldn't build your own thing" is so so true ! Just building your own ideas and having fun coding is just so different from just doing what you're being told in a project that's not really yours in a company and stuff. Probably one of the reason i personally keep coding as a hobby and never really wanted to making in my actual job (so far). Totally relate to that part. Congrats on the 159 users !

Wow, thats just a bad interviewer. He didn't even want to hire someone XD

Hey, thanks for your transparency! You’re a natural storyteller. Sorry you dealt with an interview like that-definitely not the norm 😅

I bombed my first coding interview 4 years ago also!

Clearly you didn't fail that interview; they failed. Big ups for being nice, though I would have left and beaten your 9-minute record.

I love you content ❤❤bro

That company sounds unprofessional, you wouldn’t have wanted to work with people like that - different companies use different strategies for interview techniques; it is much nicer to have a take-home assignment yeah. Unfortunately, you can get data structure and algorithm questions, esp. if they are looking for candidates with a CS degree. Well done on maintaining such a healthy mindset in relation to your experience though, it’s easy to let it get to you; and it sucks when you dwell on stuff like that - I bombed a final stage interview with Morgan Stanley (after five initial interviews) & yeah, it was a pretty similar situation; mind goes blank and you’re like, focusing too much on the fact that your mind has gone blank haha. It happens to everyone, just got to get some more practice in! Keep pursuing the passion mate, you’re inspiring other people and it’s great to watch!

About that interview, that sounds like a bad apple. That sounded awful. Ive never been through an interview so robotic and the interviewer so rude. Best course of action, just move on and keep interviewing. Thats not how all interviews are.

you know you failed an interview when they ask you to ask them questions within 7 min of the interview lol

159 users at the start is so good for a start-up, even if the number drops they should give you great feedback!

Fully agree with the interview techniques... Annoys me that companies are asking LC questions which have no relevance for a web dev job. Also I defo have the same problem with interviews - I could do the same problem over and over but when I get asked in an interview it's like they're talking Chinese to me. Going to look into calming my nerves for the next ones.

Being a self-taught dev as well, I totally relate. One company I interviewed with actually outsourced the technical interview to a 3rd party company which was such a red flag lol. I also never spent time doing Leetcode so once that tech interview jumped straight to a Leetcode hard I was doomed. I was supposed to make it through 3 questions in 1hr and didn't even get through the first. The good news is that not all are bad, the company I work at now had a super practical tech interview where I had to make a frontend UI consume an API and it felt like the easiest thing ever.