Decided (reluctantly) to start building in public

I'm building izer.app, a tool that helps Amazon sellers optimize their product listings.

Basically it is a SEO tool for Amazon. It's based on a competitor's tool that I've used and found very helpful.

The main reason why I've been reluctant to follow the "building in public" track is probably a well-deserved case of impostor syndrome.

I started my coding journey in January 2020, right before the SHF and I've pretty much spent every day since then taking courses and building course projects. I was at level zero when I started. I can remember trying to learn about for loops thinking, "how the F@#$ does 'i' know which array to iterate over?"

Anyway, I started learning by going through all the exercises in a book called "A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript." After that I started taking Udemy courses and coding along with YouTube tutorials, mainly focused on JS and the MERN stack.

Last month, June, I finally felt like I had enough knowledge to actually start building something of my own.

This week I finished my MVP (emphasis on the M) and deployed it, and today I switched gears and decided to start going after actual users.

One thing I've come to realize though is that It's a lot easier for me to promote and sell other people's products. I've been in sales for most of my life, so this realization hit me hard today.

Which is why I decided to start posting my journey. Overcoming this personal limitation will be a huge victory, whether or not izer.app ever finds PMF.

So that's post #1

Hello world!

P.S. If you build in public, what benefits have you found?

P.P.S. Please check out https://izer.app and let me know if you have any feedback (positive or negative).