Covid hit my finances hard. I founded a startup and failed. Here’s what I learned

Hi hackers,

Covid hit me financially really hard, just like so many others. I was lucky that the hit was only for three months. But within the 3 months I made the resolution to learn coding, not so much for a career change, but to build something that could potentially provide some side income. Over the three months that I was out of work, I learned front-end (AngularJs framework).

I was also able to convince a buddy to join me in building a startup, he is full-stack web developer and he focused on the backend. The idea was to build shift-work finder app. The startup was a successful failure. Took the L, and here are some good lessons (sorry, I don't mean to be captain obvious 😅).

• Read the Mom Test (if you haven't already)
• Then talk to your potential customer before building
• MVP (very important, keep it simple)
• Build & ship. It does not have to be perfect, you do not need all the features
• Biggest thing I struggled with was communicating my vision and taking input. Get your team to buy into your vision by making it their own to
• Allow yourself to make mistakes, forgive yourself and move on

I also learned that I love coding and I enrolled into a back-end course (Udemy's NodeJS, mongoose, Express, MongoDB) and now my 🎯 is to building something that can make me $50-$100/day. I feel like this is more achievable and scalable.

Ohh! my day 💼, Manufacturing Engineer at a Med Device company. I see a tone of opportunities for automation and hopefully my new found coding skills will someday level up to building solutions.