Commercial startup founder trying to be a dev
Hi, I am the founder of a startup with 2,500 clients and with capital raised.
So far, every time I want to develop something I have to pay someone to do it, and that's really limiting. That's why I am trying to become technical to do it myself.
I am good at math, but I didn't choose the dev path in college and I don't know where to start. Do you have any recommendations? I am trying to find a versatile language that could let me try new business models and quickly change if necessary.
At the same time, it happens to me that I am busy all day doing commercial stuff, so now I am thinking: If I know how to code? will I have the time to code?
Do you have any similar experiences being dev founders or guides to share with me?
I would really appreciate it.
Thank you!
I am a founder, I have bootstraped my website after. teaching myself python, django, angular, html, css, js. I had basic programming experience to start with. I now have a top rate website with an extensive database system and all the bells and whistles a saas company needs, but it has taken many 100s of hours work. But it has not cost any cash, and now i can easily modify anything, if i needed to make a clone of facebook i could do it fairly quickly.
What do you want to achieve? Reduce dev costs? Or to understand the code better?
wow, thank you for the inspiration!
I've been learning javascript the last two weeks and it has been great, pretty straightforward.
I would like to be part of the product, not just the guy that's selling it, maybe that's my biggest motivation to learn.
My plan is to learn React after javascript.
Thank you for your answer!
I find all the tutorials at https://www.w3schools.com very usefully, especially js, css and html with lots of examples you can copy and paste.
Thank you! I am going to see it.
Hi Patricio
My perspective as a coder...
I like that I can quickly build on an idea, and keep improving on it until I am happy with the solution. Since I usually build solutions to my own problems, I have a pretty good idea of what I need to build for an MVP.
But coders love to build, so I used to jump straight into building way too soon! It took a while and a lot of discipline to think more like an entrepreneur rather than an coder to focus on the problem rather than the solution.
These days I look to using nocode tools first to test my ideas. Perhaps this is something you can look into also. Nocode lets you test ideas very quickly without writing any code and you can build the solutions yourself. There's a No-code group here on IH where you can ask for help: https://www.indiehackers.com/group/no-code
Lastly, I don't think you won't have time to code. At the moment you are spending time briefing developers for your projects. You can use that time to code instead.
Hope that helps.
Farez
Thank you so much Farez for your answer,
I will check more no-code apps, I have tried some!
I think I am trying to code because if I launch an MVP and it works, maybe it's easier for a developer to continue the project from what I started.
Thanks again.
Patricio.
You're welcome, Patricio! Well, I would go with whatever helps you validate your idea quickly. Good luck Patricio.