Bro you gave me such a big motivation! I am a self taught developer from germany and i'm still at school. Currently I'm working on a social media platform made for developers and I love to see other software engineers trying to build their own startup like me.
keep grinding bro! I actually had a similar idea while back about a social media for developers, similar to dev.to. Didn't end up going down that route but still think it'd be a fun thing to build
It’s really inspiring to see how you are progressing. I’m in a similar position building a SaaS as a side hustle. It’s a kudo card system mainly for teambuilding.
Hey Ryan, enjoying watching your journey. I’m currently building out my first full app having started my coding journey in May. It’s a travel planning app for people going on adventures. Learning a lot along the way and building my skills for the future. Keep it up mate!
sounds cool man! and yeah, immediately throwing yourself into something you genuinely want to build is the best way you can learn by far. what’s the name of it?
Hey again, I dont mind the deep talks they are always the best parts about the video they are very helpful so dont remove it please. Im also wondering if you are considering making Notibly a mobile app, Im not a targeted user but try to ask your users about it, you can benefit from it by potentially getting more users
When deleting a block with a media file, I would have a secondary confirmation for deleting the file or leaving the file and just deleting the block. So the flow would look like this: Starting with a block containing a file -> Click delete block -> Prompt "Do you also want to delete the file?" -> Click Yes/No/Cancel This way you keep everything inside the same flow and the user has control of leaving or deleting the file associated with the block. Just my $0.02.
Hmm yeah that’s a good idea, I guess I can find a way to listen for block deletes, and then if it’s the type of file, then prompt the user. I’ll have to look into that I think there was something in the docs about handling block deletions. appreciate the input 🙌🏻🙏🏼
Hey Ryan, awesome to see your progress! I think the fact that you’re focusing specifically on note-taking for students (and not trying to make another generic note taking app) could be the thing that sets this project apart. Though some say that it’s hard to make money on student products, hope you prove it wrong 🤞 I’m also creating an app and sharing my progress, feel free to check the channel.
thank you 🙏🏼 yeah definitely thought about how students could be a hard market, it’ll be interesting to see what happens. and sweet ill check it out for sure 👍🏼
thank you 🙏🏼 and the signups are disabled right now, keeping it invite only for now but you can sign up to get an invite with the form with the link in the description :) but that reminds me I should have a note on the signup page about that lol
Are you using a box to prop up your laptop? Those are some serious start-up vibes man. Insofar as the calendar stuff is concerned, I'd be happy with a simple import calendar button for now, syncing would be preferable, but if I could just import an .ics file and have all my recurring events move into the notibly calendar, that would be great. Plus, you could probably build features on top of that quite easily without having to focus too much energy on syncing calendars, etc. You can write and publish your own notes, that's not an issue. You cannot republish materials that the university has produced, that's a copyright issue and those materials are the intellectual property of the institution (doing so may make you liable insofar as copyright laws are concerned). Reusing solutions that you've found online for your own assignment submission is academic misconduct. Essentially, from a liability perspective, just try and make sure that you don't host any IP that is owned by an academic institution that you do not own the copyright to (esp. if it is publicly available and easily accessible, e.g. indexed properly through Google). Thanks for the links! I'm not much of a front-end developer, so those will be super useful :) Book recommendation: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel Pink. Before starting my MSc, I was building out a SaaS platform for inventory management and digital asset management for sole-traders who want to manage their e-commerce operations easily and cheaply (across multiple platforms), but clearly, I no longer have time for that! My approach to building it was: I am building a tool to solve my own problem. If it actually does a good job of that, I might be able to turn it into a SaaS product, but yeah - that's on the back burner for the time being. I tried reading the power of now about six months ago, I understand that a lot of people swear by it, but I stopped reading after about 20-30 pages; it just didn't seem very pragmatic (and quite hippyish, not that there is anything wrong with that), but I'd prefer to read philosophical literature on existentialism or philosophy of mind to better understand myself, my place in the world and how I ought to live my life. But that takes commitment and time (though I am auditing a module in Philosophy of Mind). But that's just me.
Yep an old Astro A40 box lol. That's not a bad idea for a starting point regarding the .ics, I'll take a look into that. Hmm yeah interesting. Now my only question would be would a disclaimer be good enough about being not responsible for if someone for instance copied solutions and converted them into their notes on Notibly and then shared that note. Or similarly, took screenshots and attached the photos to the note and shared that one... at the end of the day I just wouldn't want to be liable but it would be pretty hard to avoid every way around it. Thanks for that book recommendation, seems like something I'd definitely want to read, I'll definitely pick up a copy for one of these weeks coming up. As for your take on the power of now, that totally makes sense lol, I'm still kind of struggling to conceptualize all of it and he mentions a few times that you can't try to understand what he's talking about, you just have to feel it, which makes it even harder because it makes you want to try to think and understand it more..that said I've still found some value from it so far. Also, thanks for your emails about the featuresvote issue (I also saw your comment on code blocks, I'll add that in right now I totally missed adding it to the assignment editor as well), I'm actually planning on just creating my own thing for this as I still don't really like it fully lol, I'm just too picky. Don't want to split my focus too much but I wanted to combine a couple useful things (hint: discord), hate to keep going back and forth on these feedback platforms but the developer in me just wants to say fuck it I'll build it myself 🤣
@@ryanburryy In terms of liability, you're probably fine tbh, unless you're intentionally and knowingly hosting a bunch of their IP. For instance, I have access to a bunch of recorded lectures from two different universities. If I took those videos and uploaded them somewhere for the public to view; that might be serious enough to get the universities attention and they might send me a nasty letter threatening legal action, sort of thing. But you're fine with notes; and I don't believe you can copyright solutions to exercises; it would be like trying to copyright 2+2=4, right? But sharing solutions is frowned upon within academia, so, if you wanted to leverage connections that you may build (in time) within academic communities to market your product for effectively... I'd just say, try and encourage the users not to engage in academic malpractice; and I'd maybe include something within the terms of use that users agree not to republish materials provided by the university. You could probably train a pretty naive classification model to flag documents that come from academic institutions, so if it was of any concern, I don't think it would be very difficult to put a stop to it. In short, you don't want your platform to become another solutions sharing website. That is essentially how coursehero makes their money, right? It's seen as pretty scummy IMO. Yeah I know what you mean, if you can't find an adequate solution to a problem (for a reasonable price), it's usually a good opening in the market to produce another product, hah. But it's easy to get carried away!
@@ryanburryy Sure, I consider myself a decent programmer in NextJS. If you need something built for free. I am here to help nothing init for me just to support someone trying to build a startup. Cheers
Bro you gave me such a big motivation! I am a self taught developer from germany and i'm still at school.
Currently I'm working on a social media platform made for developers and I love to see other software engineers trying to build their own startup like me.
keep grinding bro! I actually had a similar idea while back about a social media for developers, similar to dev.to. Didn't end up going down that route but still think it'd be a fun thing to build
It’s really inspiring to see how you are progressing. I’m in a similar position building a SaaS as a side hustle. It’s a kudo card system mainly for teambuilding.
thanks man 🙏🏼 sounds interesting, do you have a site up for it yet?
Hey Ryan, enjoying watching your journey. I’m currently building out my first full app having started my coding journey in May. It’s a travel planning app for people going on adventures. Learning a lot along the way and building my skills for the future. Keep it up mate!
sounds cool man! and yeah, immediately throwing yourself into something you genuinely want to build is the best way you can learn by far. what’s the name of it?
I appreciate the design inspiration websites, dude! I was looking for something like that to help me find inspiration.
anytime bro 🙌🏻
Hey again, I dont mind the deep talks they are always the best parts about the video they are very helpful so dont remove it please. Im also wondering if you are considering making Notibly a mobile app, Im not a targeted user but try to ask your users about it, you can benefit from it by potentially getting more users
got it 🫡 and yeah I definitely plan to down the line, would be pretty crucial to have imo
When deleting a block with a media file, I would have a secondary confirmation for deleting the file or leaving the file and just deleting the block.
So the flow would look like this:
Starting with a block containing a file -> Click delete block -> Prompt "Do you also want to delete the file?" -> Click Yes/No/Cancel
This way you keep everything inside the same flow and the user has control of leaving or deleting the file associated with the block. Just my $0.02.
Hmm yeah that’s a good idea, I guess I can find a way to listen for block deletes, and then if it’s the type of file, then prompt the user. I’ll have to look into that I think there was something in the docs about handling block deletions. appreciate the input 🙌🏻🙏🏼
hey fellow startup founder. I like your content and I see the efforts you put into these videos.
good content, keep it up.
thank you bro 🙌🏻
Love the videos dude, keep it up!
much appreciated man 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hey Ryan, awesome to see your progress! I think the fact that you’re focusing specifically on note-taking for students (and not trying to make another generic note taking app) could be the thing that sets this project apart. Though some say that it’s hard to make money on student products, hope you prove it wrong 🤞 I’m also creating an app and sharing my progress, feel free to check the channel.
thank you 🙏🏼 yeah definitely thought about how students could be a hard market, it’ll be interesting to see what happens. and sweet ill check it out for sure 👍🏼
Focus on actions instead of outcomes
that’s a good way to put it
love the video, i tried to make an account and hit the sign up button on the login page and it hit me w a 404! excited to see how the app develops tho
thank you 🙏🏼 and the signups are disabled right now, keeping it invite only for now but you can sign up to get an invite with the form with the link in the description :)
but that reminds me I should have a note on the signup page about that lol
Are you using a box to prop up your laptop? Those are some serious start-up vibes man. Insofar as the calendar stuff is concerned, I'd be happy with a simple import calendar button for now, syncing would be preferable, but if I could just import an .ics file and have all my recurring events move into the notibly calendar, that would be great. Plus, you could probably build features on top of that quite easily without having to focus too much energy on syncing calendars, etc. You can write and publish your own notes, that's not an issue. You cannot republish materials that the university has produced, that's a copyright issue and those materials are the intellectual property of the institution (doing so may make you liable insofar as copyright laws are concerned). Reusing solutions that you've found online for your own assignment submission is academic misconduct. Essentially, from a liability perspective, just try and make sure that you don't host any IP that is owned by an academic institution that you do not own the copyright to (esp. if it is publicly available and easily accessible, e.g. indexed properly through Google). Thanks for the links! I'm not much of a front-end developer, so those will be super useful :) Book recommendation: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel Pink. Before starting my MSc, I was building out a SaaS platform for inventory management and digital asset management for sole-traders who want to manage their e-commerce operations easily and cheaply (across multiple platforms), but clearly, I no longer have time for that! My approach to building it was: I am building a tool to solve my own problem. If it actually does a good job of that, I might be able to turn it into a SaaS product, but yeah - that's on the back burner for the time being. I tried reading the power of now about six months ago, I understand that a lot of people swear by it, but I stopped reading after about 20-30 pages; it just didn't seem very pragmatic (and quite hippyish, not that there is anything wrong with that), but I'd prefer to read philosophical literature on existentialism or philosophy of mind to better understand myself, my place in the world and how I ought to live my life. But that takes commitment and time (though I am auditing a module in Philosophy of Mind). But that's just me.
Yep an old Astro A40 box lol.
That's not a bad idea for a starting point regarding the .ics, I'll take a look into that.
Hmm yeah interesting. Now my only question would be would a disclaimer be good enough about being not responsible for if someone for instance copied solutions and converted them into their notes on Notibly and then shared that note. Or similarly, took screenshots and attached the photos to the note and shared that one... at the end of the day I just wouldn't want to be liable but it would be pretty hard to avoid every way around it.
Thanks for that book recommendation, seems like something I'd definitely want to read, I'll definitely pick up a copy for one of these weeks coming up. As for your take on the power of now, that totally makes sense lol, I'm still kind of struggling to conceptualize all of it and he mentions a few times that you can't try to understand what he's talking about, you just have to feel it, which makes it even harder because it makes you want to try to think and understand it more..that said I've still found some value from it so far.
Also, thanks for your emails about the featuresvote issue (I also saw your comment on code blocks, I'll add that in right now I totally missed adding it to the assignment editor as well), I'm actually planning on just creating my own thing for this as I still don't really like it fully lol, I'm just too picky. Don't want to split my focus too much but I wanted to combine a couple useful things (hint: discord), hate to keep going back and forth on these feedback platforms but the developer in me just wants to say fuck it I'll build it myself 🤣
@@ryanburryy In terms of liability, you're probably fine tbh, unless you're intentionally and knowingly hosting a bunch of their IP. For instance, I have access to a bunch of recorded lectures from two different universities. If I took those videos and uploaded them somewhere for the public to view; that might be serious enough to get the universities attention and they might send me a nasty letter threatening legal action, sort of thing. But you're fine with notes; and I don't believe you can copyright solutions to exercises; it would be like trying to copyright 2+2=4, right? But sharing solutions is frowned upon within academia, so, if you wanted to leverage connections that you may build (in time) within academic communities to market your product for effectively... I'd just say, try and encourage the users not to engage in academic malpractice; and I'd maybe include something within the terms of use that users agree not to republish materials provided by the university. You could probably train a pretty naive classification model to flag documents that come from academic institutions, so if it was of any concern, I don't think it would be very difficult to put a stop to it. In short, you don't want your platform to become another solutions sharing website. That is essentially how coursehero makes their money, right? It's seen as pretty scummy IMO.
Yeah I know what you mean, if you can't find an adequate solution to a problem (for a reasonable price), it's usually a good opening in the market to produce another product, hah. But it's easy to get carried away!
Hi, are you working 100% of the time on startup or do you have a second job?
i have a full time job rn, i spend most evenings and weekends to work on it. not ideal but it is what it is for right now lol
Hai Buddy i'm from Hyderabad, India
Is this open source? Would love to help you with smaller issues.
it's not atm unfortunately, I've been getting a lot of requests for that though, might be something I'll look into in the future
@@ryanburryy Sure, I consider myself a decent programmer in NextJS. If you need something built for free. I am here to help nothing init for me just to support someone trying to build a startup. Cheers
Nah bro this is wrong. Who needs reading man just develop dude. Fuck everything else.
can't neglect developing the mind bro
man u can talk a lot.
😂😂 my bad man