Are there any indie hackers who launched successful products within a year of learning to code?
I'd find it very inspiring to see examples of people who were in the same boat as me.
I'm a third-year college student pursuing Computer Science, but I only really started to learn programming a few months ago. I feel like an imposter when I look at my peers (at least the ones who have similar goals - building stuff) because they have been programming since their early teen years.
I learned html and css while working on colorsandfonts.com.
Is a popular app wth 300 to 600 users daily.
Wow, Love it. Now it lives in my bookmarks. I find these types of sites very helpful.
How cool! Thank you. I am about to revamp it an add more tools.
very nice, what stack do you use for this?
Right now is using Bulma and Vue ( Buefy ) bit I am soon going to redesign the site with Tailwind and Alpine.js.
I completely understand you, and I felt the same a few years ago. But in my particular case, I learned to really code in Python and Javascript building my own product alterestate.com ; a CRM for real estate agencies in LATAM.
It will all depend on your capacity to understand things quick, and always know that there's always something new that you can learn every single day. Having that mindset can help you not only to code, but to achieve greater things in life.
One of my good friends built a very profitable site as he was learning to code. It was more of a high-traffic advertising play than a "product" but he earned and still earns far more with it than I ever earned in SV tech jobs.
He didn't study CS, and probably did everything you would consider "wrong", though. He had no version control, no testing, wrote the site in plain PHP with no framework and "deployed" by FTPing new versions of php files up to the server. Over the years, though, he slowly learned some JavaScript, jQuery, more about CSS and finally git. Now, he'd probably be employable as a dev if he ever wanted a job again.
Are you talking about @levelsio?
He has a similar programming methodology
No. My friend made a nutrition site. I think levelsio is a better programmer than my buddy but in terms of revenue it's pretty similar. Those using Ruby + git + some kind of framework have completely dominated the returns for YC-funded companies, but many many people have built profitable small to medium-sized businesses on PHP duct tape and bubble gum.
I taught myself to code full stack this past year. I launched a product, but it hasn't been successful. That said, I think it's 100% possible to launch a successful product within a year of learning to code. In fact, it might even be beneficial. What I mean by beneficial is that you spend less time optimizing "linked-lists" or whatever is important for large scale applications, and you spend more time relying on other's pre-built components - which is really how a startup gets off the ground and iterates quickly.
I attended a 6 months web developer course, certified. We learned the typical web dev stack so php, javascript, mvc, oop, sql....
The course started September last year and I graduated this year in April. We had to realize one project which in my case is browsegenres.com
Well, I consider it successful at it is live and fully functioning. Got some valuable feedback here on IH and I'm currently working on the concept.
I started learning about it one month ago and I'm already able to build my website ideas. 💪
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