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Couldnt agree more! There is no need for people to waste 30 mins of their work life on reading aloud status updates https://www.kaapi.team/blog/importance-of-daily-standup-meet...

You are one of the few senior engineering leaders who think like this! And kudos to you! Wish I had talked to you in the earlier days of me struggling to learn

I think you are talking about the pie chart image in the blog post? I think "programming languages" is the default tag that Wakatime assigns to any file type inside VS Code.

I took the screenshot from my Wakatime account :)

Hi, I am the blog author. This cracked me up! I have to go back and see where I made that goof up! :D But yeah you are probably right - I dont think I am the best software developer out there.

I can definitely code just good enough to cobble up a project together.

Just because my painting isn't good enough (yet), am I not a painter? Who awards that distinction? :) Genuine thought experiment ..

You are right! But what is that level when you say that you are a coder now? A software developer? When you graduate from a bootcamp?

When someone hires you? Maybe when someone pays you for an app you built?

For me it was the latter..

Learning to code != learning to run a prod app with real clients.

I can learn to surf without being a professional surfer. So why can't I learn to code without wanting to make a career out of it?

PS I am the original blog author

Heh heh! I like the idea of being in love with the idea of being a businessman! :)

I wish I could tell you I have mental fortitude + hustle. I think I got lucky because I always had people around me who inspired me. I was a product owner / manager / CEO for quite some years who hung out with "techies" all the time.

PS I am the author of the article

Hi! I am the author of that article.

> I don't get how people can spend roughly 3 months learning to code and make a career out of it. Surely they must be lacking in certain core areas of CS.

I kinda agree with you. One usually does NOT make a career in 3 months. But who says you can't? I definitely will fail all coding interviews even now after 1.5 years of practice. But I built a real SaaS app that people are paying for. It's not the best architecture. I am sure it will fail at scale. But hi, fuck it, I built something of real value.

The title is a bit clickbaity - but still true. Anyone can learn coding, no matter the age.

Hi folks! I am Aditya (author of the article!)

Just got forwarded this by a friend to realise that it's trending here! :D

AMA if you want. Online for next hour.

Bookmarked this!

Thats true - and I 100% agree. Would you know of any resources to read for a self starter so that they can execute better? I am right now simply googling errors and "how to do x" .. but I feel I am missing out on some obvious core concepts

I am not a software engineer by profession / education

Thanks have bookmarked it! Looks good ..

Nice! I would love to be in that position one day with a stable core product. We launched a month ago, currently at $160 MRR .. so still early days for us

Nice yes that looks like my story until now for past 3 months so I am glad we are on the right path.. Support definitely has to be real time

Will think about the half day bit and try it out

I think a code bootcamp will def help you

Dang this is nice Elviz!

Ugh this certainly sucks. I disagree with the rule that you can’t ask for feedback on your product! But fair I guess, considering that it has lots of potentials of misuse.

Will remember this next time. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

Fair point on the distraction bit, and I hate it too! Kaapi sends two notifications a week and if your Slack notifications are off, you wont get any notification from app too :) Maybe we have some improvement areas on this topic. Will think about it more!

I do disagree on the corporate-jerkery bit. 100% of current users (454 active this week) work in tech startups. Most managers use us to get agenda points for their upcoming 1-on-1s..

On the last bit --> Yup, I sent my weekly newsletter a few minutes ago and did tell users to give us HN feedback on how we can do better! :)

It was a good MVP to begin with. Slack abstracts away a lot of other head ache for us e.g. we dont have any frontend UI - we just give formatted JSON outputs to Slack API and they parse it for us!

nice! Yeah we are going to add that ability soon hopefully

Creator here. I have spent a decade in startups now. Almost always, the best teams had fantastic feedback culture & systems.

So when I learned to code last year, I really wanted to build an app for this :) The Slack app checkins with your team once a week, and collects the answers for you in a simple format. You can even run daily standups! All within Slack.

Had to do some interesting hacks to make a Slack UI - it even has a bar graph using Slack formatting tips :) We have a serverless stack (AWS Lambda) and Python on backend, and Aurora database with a Psql engine for autoscaling.

I really believe that the answer to a good remote culture is surprisingly simple - listen to your people, and take action on the feedback. Trivia nights and Zoom parties come later.

[1] [Our story of bootstrapping Kaap to $1000 MRR](https://www.kaapi.team/blog/hardcore-year-learning-to-code-b...)

[2] [Why we went serverless from the beginning](https://www.kaapi.team/blog/this-is-why-we-went-server-less-...)

[3] [Goal setting in remote teams](https://www.kaapi.team/blog/a-simple-idiot-proof-guide-to-go...)

[4] Why everyone should code(https://www.kaapi.team/blog/everyone-should-learn-code)

Gradually, and then all of a sudden

I would definitely recommend to add a 20% buffer for people who are new to the team. Once you have been around the block, you get an extra 20% boost simply because you know people, and the culture and start figuring out ways on how to hack the system to get your work done

We are currently working on building https://kaapi.team/

Super easy slack app to send weekly check-ins to your distributed team and get back insights from them. Some of our early beta customers are using this to figure out who's disengaged, is everyone on same page for the project and who needs more 1:1 time with the manager etc

Excited to help grow the remote ecosystem. We just closed our first annual customer and super excited to keep heads down execute

"Talent is global and evenly spread, but opportunities are not" <-- if I had to define Pioneer

Being part of Pioneer until now has been a great experience! We are in early stages of building https://www.kaapi.team/ (easy performance management for remote teams) and running in the Pioneer leaderboard was a huge factor of us being able to "ship" things like https://timewise.how/

1. Leaderboards can be gamified, yes, and I am sure some participants try to do so. But that froth gets cleared in final evaluation by experts. And you can fool a small percentage by showcasing vanity metrics, but I always climbed higher in the tournament when we got actual customers and product growth.

2. If you are not from the valley, getting access to a strong network of peers who help keep you accountable is great

3. Also, you get back what you put in. I feel as if I am yet to get the maximum "juice" from Pioneer, but that is on me. I haven't yet asked for enough intros and personal mentorship help from the Pioneer team. But since winning the tournament, and joining the camp, we have talked to 20 potential customers, and have beta customers lined up.

4. Personally for me, this is a refreshing way of going from idea to business. It's 2020 - geographical constraints of being in the valley shouldn't be a barrier!

5. I think it definitely has some kinks it needs to iron out in the tournament (e.g. advisors never replied, and the feature is now scraped). And also in the camp itself - but I love the fact that the Pioneer team is actively working on iterating itself like a startup!

PS Yes, I know you don't always need accelerators or funding or mentorship to build a business. There is no one way of getting it right, and this is just one of them.

Your mileage may vary.

This is good! I would definitely want to use this soon for creating screenshots for one of my side projects.

shift+command+3 and then open in preview is literally the most use workflow on my macbook!

I quite agree - in hindsight the title was a bit click-baity :D But I think time in meetings is something that needs more exposure and reviews.

Not all meetings are bad, but every minute spent in unknown areas is bad. I work deeply in tech startups and I was shocked to see that some of my earliest beta users had 80%+ meeting time..

Of course they were shocked too :D

Hi @missmadeleine

The trigger sounds like a great idea! We built this over the weekends and are now compiling feedback from the earliest set of users to improve it further!

Regarding the sync -- Yes, it syncs directly with one email ID associated to your google calendar and then syncs events created across devices/sources etc