From Sales to Programming - starting a journey

Hey all,

I'm here as someone who bootstrapped product based businesses in college, found my way into the SaaS Sales world, and is now a salesman by day and a programmer by night.

I know very little about what I'm doing but I'm doing it anyways - I took a React class and have barely passable React, JS, HTML, and CSS skills. Google is my best friend currently :)

I'm solving my own problem and open to sharing the ideas I work on - my first project revolves around sales. Breaking into one of the best companies in the space, I often forget the initial job search. So many scammy, misleading, and soul-crushing positions out there.

I'm making a dead simple site, a la RemoteOk, that pulls SaaS Sales Job data from sources I've come to trust. Of course the idea is to build an audience and then monetize it.

I'd love to share my progress and roadblocks on here, and I'm trying to not read too many other people's posts because I want my journey to not be unduly influenced by what the good hackers are doing :)

Right now I've got a vanilla React app that renders three elements. The job listing element pulls dummy data from a js file and is not rendering. Happy to talk more about it here, or you can see my tweetstorm just now on https://twitter.com/Ryan___Doyle

Glad to be here!