Codédex just soft launched!
by Sonny LiMy name is Sonny and I'm a solo founder based in NYC. I can build and I can sell. And I just quit my job after being at Codecademy for 5 years to go all-in on myself.
This is one of the three swings that I'm taking:
Codédex: Learn to code for Gen Z.
https://www.codedex.io
Coding education has been my bread and butter for the past seven years.
I studied CS in undergrad. Barely graduated in 6 years because I had such a bad time in school. Later, I moved to New York for my PhD program to make my parents proud (they are both professors), but ended up dropping out. Who was I fooling?
I was broke. I didn't know a soul in the city. And I found the one thing that I could find to survive in the city, teaching. It was the only shot I needed. And I ran with it. I spend the next two years riding subways across three boroughs: I took a bus to teach C at Columbia University on the UWS, I took a subway to teach Data Structures and Algorithms in Python at NYU Tandon in Brooklyn, and Programming Methods in Java in Lehman College in the Bronx. *I also did IT for a bit just to survive. I felt like I lived on the 6 train.
After that, I joined the infamous EdTech startup Codecademy on a whim to teach to 1000x the students and for the past 5 years, I wore many hats and ended up building and managing all the free content for 50m users. I saw the company grow from 35 to 300. We recently sold to a public enterprise education service company and I realized, I'm beginning to trade time for money. I was starting to forget what it was all for. I don't care for corporate development. I want to teach kids, teens, young adults, but also the self-taught coders, the underprivileged, the underdogs who just need a shot.
I have a 15-year-old little brother who has been coding. This is what I wish I built for him two years ago if I had more time off from work. This is for the sophomore year me.
Anyway, Codédex MVP is now live and running. And it will be for a very long time.
<3,
Sonny
