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Comment by samstave | Hacker News Reader

Startup Idea: Start a slack/discord group for aspiring students between the ages of [pick your age range, say (8-18)] and start a mentoring/support group with these like-minds...

You'll learn, build relationships and some of you will go off and found companies together.

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Starting a Slack group for students is a good idea, but decidedly not a startup idea.

What about a saas to support the companies providing groups for slack.

I've considered building a "coding buddies" site. Something that's been lacking about the whole Codecademy/Hacker Rank/etc sites is the lack of intrinsic motivation. An actual person with whom you can work could potentially provide that.

Yeah thats what I was inferring... Basically - start a slack, find a bunch of people like him - pick a project to build together that suits their need (coding buddies) and build the tool.

Kind of like when I was trying blacksmithing, the teacher makes you make your tools first.

I'm 21 but I wish something like this existed when I was younger!

I'm 47. There were computer camps and clubs when I was a kid. They probably took a downturn, though, as computing went mainstream and turned into consumption of video games and, later, online socializing.

Maybe you were either too late, or too early, depending on perspective. :)

38 here. I was learning Turbo Pascal in around 96. I'm sure there was a lively community around it, but it would have been on IRC and usenet, which was still a little daunting to me. My primary resource was the SWAG archives, and I honestly can't remember if it was a bunch of floppy disks or a website. Either way, I remember many hours lost to running various random bits of Pascal and hacking them together to make what I wanted. Which is pretty much the same way I code today.

I wish I was 21. Or 31 for that matter.

I am 24, and was programming when I was 12. I remember spending days trying to get Visual Studio to download. I began working with Visual Basic Macros in Word. Although it wasn't very well understood in the schools around me, I found the comfort of those online willing to teach, and help others like it seems he is being shown here.

The mentality of those taking boot camps, and the mentality I had when I started coding are vastly different, but I can see the use.

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