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Bootstrap your idea to ramen profitable with React πŸ› πŸ”₯πŸ™ˆ

My team and I are working on an online course called Bootstrap your idea to ramen profitable with React πŸ™ˆ. It's being marketed as an "incomplete" frontend development course because our focus will be on building apps that integrate with marketing, payments and analytics rather than programming itself.

What are your thoughts on the following features and topics? Would this approach annoy you or draw you?

The details on the app that we'll be build for the course is still in development. Here's the landing page so far. Feedback appreciated πŸ™.

https://shooting-unicorns.com

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on November 11, 2019
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    I assume this is a hybrid step between full-stack and no-code? Good idea, tough audience to market:

    • you're teaching enough React to allow people to be effective: good
    • you're not giving them enough background of JS and webapp development: frustration
    • you're promoting specific companies (firebase, mailchimp) instead of open-source alternatives: bad
    • SEO & analytics basics: good

    probably show some demo of things you've built following this method?

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      Great feedback!

      I'm about to update the landing page with designs on the app people will be building for the course. I'll make sure to cover the fundamentals (setting up tools, variables, conditionals, functions, html/css etc.

      Hmm I didn't see promoting specific companies to be bad, but I now see your point. Will re-market it tonight!

      Thank you :)

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    What are your thoughts on the following features and topics?

    I used React professionally for years (and still work on React code bases fairly often) and I really don't think it's a good choice for most bootstrappers. It's just overkill.

    I bootstrapped my current site to profitability with just a back-end MVC framework and it was a lot less work. I'll probably add a more complex front-end eventually, likely using Vue, but it's a very low priority. On the other hand, I might just add Turbolinks and call it a day.

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    I like the idea... to someone who is already working on the business/marketing side and has an idea, this could be appealing. I'm not so sure about the word 'incomplete'.. It has a negative connotation, can you spin it into a positive?

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