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As a Programmer or SaaS or Tech Person, What are your thoughts?

  • I am planning of building a place/product where imagine someone wants to learn a Tech he/she will get all the best resources available on the internet in one place. For example let's take Typescript. So if someone visits the site he will be shown a bunch of tech languages, frameworks and what not and now he selects Typescript.

  • And now the site shows him/her all the resources available to learn Typescript which actually the other users can Post. And the resources are categorized according to the platforms like- Youtube, Blogs, Online Course Platforms ( Coursera, Udemy, etc ), Social Platforms (Great Twitter, Instagram accounts to follow), Discord Servers and what not.

  • And all these lists of data will be sorted according to the user reviews or likes so that a programmer or newbie gets the best resources ever on the internet.

  • We can also send out weekly newsletters for the best resources for the tech to the category the users follow.

  • Obviously the first set of content will be curated by me, but to encourage quality submissions there will be a invite points for users calculated based upon the metrics of their post.

  • And as you can probably imagine it can be scalable to anything and awesome feature additions too.

  • It will be the goto source for every valid resource to learn something currently present on the Internet. It will solve the age old question of How to and Where to learn which millions of developers ask when starting out their journey ?

  • I love Naval Ravikant and as he says Code and Content have been and will create wealth in future.

  • I would love to know your thoughts on this. Thanks for your time !

on May 31, 2021
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    I'd say no.

    Some ppl have a high preference of platform they won't go to your site, they will search on or for that platform most of them have searches and are already self sorting

    The best resources for advance level in any language are in the source language home pages

    I'm sure a few ppl would like this idea but I bet they won't actually use it much... Speaking of which it's like a 1 use ever or in several years which means you can't grow your users and such, it only works as an SEO play, if you get that cool, but your have very unfair competition to beat, you can't win the big searches

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    I've thought of this idea myself and i bet many more have. It's a valid problem to solve it's just that the way to solve it is not as straight forward as you might think.

    Content is king.

    First you need great content that is actually useful to your users. Then you need to keep it up-to-date. Those 2 problems are pretty hard to solve.

    Second is trust. Why should i trust your content. Any sort of "curated" list i've ever used is either out of date or it doesn't include the best content. What is even "the best", i don't trust your definition or someone else's of "the best"? In fact i like to have all the content available in front of me and i'll make the decision (google).

    Like i said, it's a valid problem. The reason i didn't pursue it is because i don't really have a unique solution to it.

    As an experiment, you could build a curated list for Typescript with no-code tools, so basically provide the content, and see how users react.

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      That paragraph caught my attention too. You can do all the other points listed above but you can’t control this one.

      Be careful here. Sometimes we are so in love with our idea that we don’t see these details ;)

      Anyway, it could be a good SEO experiment