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Today we applied to Latitud (build and fund world-class tech companies in Latin America). They take either entrepreneur with an idea or don't, and they have an incubation program for early-stage companies, and also an acceleration program for others with more traction. Let's see what comes next for boostio.ai.

After some spamming on Slack and Discord channels, I was getting some visitors and some of them enjoyed the idea and identified themselves with the problem. Today I have 30 early adopters who are willing to use my product, and are waiting for a beta version of my product. Very happy to see this.

In parallel with the quantitative form I had in production in my CTA click, I needed something more to have a deeper understanding of the customer and the problem. So I did a bigger form, with some open questions regarding the problem, and applied them to some of my early adopters.

As I was studying some technologies to keep me updated, such as Typescript, NextJs, Vercel and Prisma, I decided to build a landing page with a simple CTA, linked to Typeform, in order to understand better my problem. Tried to make the simplest web site I could, but with a good looking.

When I realized this was a common feeling on devs, not just on the ones coming from bootcamps, but also from graduated engineers, I saw the same opportunity I was looking to in 2017, but this time, focused on developers learning. So, I started to go a bit deeper on that research.

After changing my career in 2018 in Lisbon, from business to engineering, I was working as a developer and struggling to understand the better path I should take and the sources that I should look for specific content. In the end, I was missing a curriculum.

I was working with finance and business development, but always loved going into the terminal as a kid, trying different things on a PC. As a business guy had a lot of ideas during my life but always faced a big problem: find a CTO. Maybe I didn't have a good idea or didn't search in the right places, but this only increased my desire to learn to code. In Lisbon, I decided to shift careers and after starting in 2017 self-taught, decided to attend the Le Wagon Bootcamp. 9 weeks, full time, for a full stack program, taking Ruby on Rails as the main backend language, HTML, CSS, and JS for the frontend, SQL and Heroku.

Back to 2017. I was working on an incubator and I had an idea: create a chatbot that would perform a coach to help people make decisions. Too broad right? That was mentor feedback. So I narrowed it down to help students decide their college. But stoped.