I’m curious, what other courses did you enroll in? What were they lacking that you wish they had included?
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GraphQL / Apollo / React / MongoDB* / Express / Node / TypeScript
(*or maybe Postgres)
Most of the mini-courses I'd watch would build "demo apps" that weren't even remotely production-ready. And I was pretty frustrated by the lack of non-trivial example projects. I wasted probably hundreds of hours trying to figure out on my own:
how to properly use TypeScript and React together, how to securely add permissions for my GraphQL resolvers, how to use typings for Apollo requests, ...and dozens of other little details
So that's why we built Tinyhouse - a full-featured, non-trivial, full-stack Node.js/GraphQL server and React app that covers all of the details (and the right way to implement them).
Help other developers and earn an extra $50k+/yr by creating a programming course.
We're the authors of The Fullstack React Masterclass (Tinyhouse), Fullstack D3, ng-book, and a dozen other programming courses. We're looking to work with a select few authors in 2020 to build out a few more courses.
API Documentation and shallow blog posts don't go deep enough to teach new developers what's really involved in building production apps. Our courses are designed to teach what you /really/ do at work -- not only the libraries, but also the mental models, structure, and pitfalls required to build large applications.
There's a lot of programming knowledge that you only learn on the job that is never shared in blog posts. If you've deployed code to real-world, production apps, then you have knowledge that could really help a lot of other developers.
We're looking to collaborate with experienced developers to teach courses on React, Angular, Node, AWS, Python, Svelte, DevOps, Security, WASM, and more - our focus is on building complete, production apps and showing how to build them.
If you're interested, apply here: https://www.newline.co/write-a-book
- We invest in marketing the books (and have an active email list of over 100k)
- We love the topics we write about and aim to create something remarkable every time.
If you decided to self-publish, you may find the marketing is more than writing the book. We have an audience, and we know what they want to read - so when your book is done, we already have people who want to buy it.
If you decide to go with a “traditional” publisher, you may be given a mediocre editor, write your book in MS Word (ha), and earn 5-15% in royalties. With us, our editors (me) are programmers first, our tooling is dev-friendly, and our royalties are split 50/50. (For scale, the author of Fullstack Vue earned $20k on the opening weekend, Fullstack D3 even more.)
We’re looking to write content about JavaScript, Building Full-stack web apps, Angular, React, ASP.NET Core, Serverless, Python, Elixir, Blazor, Data Science etc. Anything up and coming.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, fill out the form linked below. Looking forward to hearing from you!
https://www.newline.co/write-a-book
(I've talked more about our economics of writing books here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015117)
- We love the topics we write about and aim to create something remarkable every time.
If you decided to self-publish, you may find the marketing is more than writing the book. We have an audience, and we know what they want to read - so when your book is done, we already have people who want to buy it.
If you decide to go with a “traditional” publisher, you may be given a mediocre editor, write your book in MS Word (ha), and earn 5-15% in royalties. With us, our editors (me) are programmers first, our tooling is dev-friendly, and our royalties are split 50/50. (For scale, the author of Fullstack Vue earned $20k on the opening weekend, Fullstack D3 even more.)
We’re looking to write content about JavaScript, Building Full-stack web apps, Angular, React, ASP.NET Core, Serverless, Python, Elixir, Blazor, Data Science etc. Anything up and coming.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, fill out the form linked below. Looking forward to hearing from you!
https://www.newline.co/write-a-book
(I've talked more about our economics of writing books here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015117)
- We invest in marketing the books (and have an active email list of over 100k)
- We love the topics we write about and aim to create something remarkable every time.
If you decided to self-publish, you may find the marketing is more than writing the book. We have an audience, and we know what they want to read - so when your book is done, we already have people who want to buy it.
If you decide to go with a “traditional” publisher, you may be given a mediocre editor, write your book in MS Word (ha), and earn 5-15% in royalties. With us, our editors (me) are programmers first, our tooling is dev-friendly, and our royalties are split 50/50. (For scale, the author of Fullstack Vue earned $20k on the opening weekend, Fullstack D3 even more.)
We’re looking to write content about JavaScript, Building Full-stack web apps, ASP.NET Core, Serverless, Python, Kubernetes, Elixir, Blazor etc. Anything up and coming.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, fill out the form linked below. Looking forward to hearing from you!
https://www.newline.co/write-a-book
(I've talked more about our economics of writing books here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015117)
- We guarantee the books and code are up to date.
- We invest in marketing the books (and have an active email list of over 100k)
- We love the topics we write about and aim to create something remarkable every time.
If you decided to self-publish, you may find the marketing is more than writing the book. We have an audience, and we know what they want to read - so when your book is done, we already have people who want to buy it.
If you decide to go with a “traditional” publisher, you may be given a mediocre editor, write your book in MS Word (ha), and earn 5-15% in royalties. With us, our editors (me) are programmers first, our tooling is dev-friendly, and our royalties are split 50/50. (For scale, the author of Fullstack Vue earned $20k on the opening weekend, Fullstack D3 even more.)
We’re looking to write content about JavaScript, Building Full-stack web apps, ASP.NET Core, Serverless, Python, Kubernetes, Elixir, etc. Anything up and coming.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, fill out the form linked below. Looking forward to hearing from you!
https://www.fullstack.io/write-a-book
(I've talked more about our economics of writing books here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015117)
- We go way beyond API docs and teach everything you need to know to build real apps.
- We guarantee the books and code are up to date.
- We invest in marketing the books (and have an active email list of over 100k)
- We love the topics we write about and aim to create something remarkable every time.
If you decided to self-publish, you may find the marketing is more than writing the book. We have an audience, and we know what they want to read - so when your book is done, we already have people who want to buy it.
If you decide to go with a “traditional” publisher, you may be given a mediocre editor, write your book in MS Word (ha), and earn 5-15% in royalties. With us, our editors (me) are programmers first, our tooling is dev-friendly, and our royalties are split 50/50. (For scale, the author of Fullstack Vue earned $20k on the opening weekend.)
We’re looking to write content about JavaScript, Building Full-stack web apps, ASP.NET Core, Serverless, Python, Kubernetes, Elixir, etc. Anything up and coming.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, fill out the form linked below. Looking forward to hearing from you!
https://www.fullstack.io/write-a-book
(I've talked more about our economics of writing books here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015117)
What's most important is that you've used your topic in production and you have some "earned secrets" that don't normally appear in API docs that you'd love to share to others. I always say that we're writing the books we wish existed when we were learning.
We have some internal training on how to think about outlining, how to evaluate the audience, and how to refresh yourself on the things beginners want to know. We'll also work with beta readers before we launch, so you'll be able to test the material against a fresh audience.
Basically, if we decide to work together, I'll be working with you closely through every step of the process: outlining, drafting, coding, revising, editing, marketing, etc.
If this interests you, please apply.
Our books sell very well because:
- We go way beyond API docs and teach everything you need to know to build real apps.
- We guarantee the books and code are up to date.
- We invest in marketing the books (and have an active email list of over 100k)
- We love the topics we write about and aim to create something remarkable every time.
If you decided to self-publish, you may find the marketing is more than writing the book. We have an audience, and we know what they want to read - so when your book is done, we already have people who want to buy it.
If you decide to go with a “traditional” publisher, you may be given a mediocre editor, write your book in MS Word (ha), and earn 5-15% in royalties. With us, our editors (me) are programmers first, our tooling is dev-friendly, and our royalties are split 50/50. (For scale, the author of Fullstack Vue earned $20k on the opening weekend.)
I’d specifically like to work with someone on Fullstack Go and Fullstack Rust - which is less about the respective languages and more like guides to building full-stack web applications with each, including third-party libraries, etc. But we’re also looking to write content about Python, Kubernetes, JavaScript, Elixir, etc. Anything up and coming.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, fill out the form linked below. Looking forward to hearing from you!
https://www.fullstack.io/write-a-book/
(I've talked more about our economics of writing books here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015117)
Earn on order of $50k/year by writing a programming book. We’re the authors of Fullstack React, ng-book, Fullstack Vue and we’re looking to work with authors like you to write a few new books this year.
Our books sell very well because:
- We go way beyond API docs and teach everything you need to know to build real apps.
- We guarantee the books and code are up to date.
- We invest in marketing the books (and have an active email list of over 100k)
- We love the topics we write about and aim to create something remarkable every time.
If you decided to self-publish, you may find the marketing is more than writing the book. We have an audience, and we know what they want to read - so when your book is done, we already have people who want to buy it.
If you decide to go with a “traditional” publisher, you may be given a mediocre editor, write your book in MS Word (ha), and earn 5-15% in royalties. With us, our editors (me) are programmers first, our tooling is dev-friendly, and our royalties are split 50/50. (For scale, the author of Fullstack Vue earned $20k on the opening weekend.)
I’d specifically like to work with someone on Fullstack Go and Fullstack Rust - which is less about the respective languages and more like guides to building full-stack web applications with each, including third-party libraries, etc. But we’re also looking to write content about Python, Kubernetes, JavaScript, Elixir, etc. Anything up and coming.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, fill out the form linked below. Looking forward to hearing from you!
https://www.fullstack.io/write-a-book/
(I've talked more about our economics of writing books here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015117)
Shoot me an email!
(For anyone else reading this, I’d also like to collaborate on a book about Rust, and another on Golang)
As far as self-publishing goes, let’s take inventory of the tasks the author had to do to get this book out the door:
- editing himself 3x over
- building out a latex template
- graphic design for the cover and the website
- “struggled” to find someone to review each chapter
- build a mailing list of 2,000 people
- make a website
- lost steam / hit a wall, as is natural when working mostly alone
- customer service
I’ve written/produced about 6 self-published books (Fullstack React, ng-book, etc.) and I’ve got a system down for semi-self publishing books that deals with all of the above issues.
We’ll help you:
- research and outline the book
- write the book in markdown or latex, using git, plus our custom tools for importing code (which are way better than copy and paste)
- deal with the marketing / cover / branding / graphic design
- review / edit the book and recruit beta readers
- market the book to our (active) email audience of 100,000+ programmers
- deal with customer service
- for 50/50 royalties
(The author of Fullstack Vue earned $20k in royalties on the opening weekend and was not even close to our biggest book.)
If you’re thinking about self-publishing a programming book, I’d love to chat. See: https://www.fullstack.io/write-a-book/
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It's invite-only (to keep the quality of links and discussion high), but we're just getting started, so definitely apply for an invite if this is a space you're interested in.
Typically these kinds of books take one of two extremes:
1. Markets are psychology and TA patterns will unlock profits
OR
2. Markets are mathematics and algorithms will unlock profits
Books in #1 will tell you all about Ichimoku clouds, fibonacci levels, fractal patterns, and how to read tea leaves.
Books in #2 tend to ignore the (real) psychological aspects of trading and don't give you much edge beyond a random walk.
Grimes book holds a special place in this dynamic: He discusses price action as psychology, but applies statistical tests to common trader folklore.
As a programmer and beginning trader/quant, Grimes book was exactly what I was looking for.
The economics change completely if you self-publish or publish with a smaller firm that has marketing abilities (and better royalty rates).
Self publishing is awesome because you keep all the money, but it takes years to build an audience.
Honestly, writing the manuscript is the easy part. Building an audience, marketing it, keeping the book up-to-date is just as hard as the original manuscript. But it can really pay off.
I'm ready to share this now: our book on Angular 2 did $400k a revenue, per year, the first two years. BUT the reason this was possible was we had a huge audience that trusted us.
Email marketing is more powerful in this space than you might believe. Even today.
If I could give you one piece of advice, it would be to sign up for Ramit Sethi's emails and watch how he markets. After that, get every book on copywriting you can and learn how to write copy.
(Also, if you're interested in writing books with me for 50% royalties, my email is in my profile. I want to do books on Python and Node this year.)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/151E3d26SIRNhXQewq-55...
For better or for worse, there would be tons of vigilantes who would be happy to track down the current location of these funds.
That is, until the robbers figure out they can require the hostage to convert into Monero first.
They build on it to create a provable, deterministic source of randomness which can't be exploited in this same way.
Here's a video that goes into more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf1dql4Zoqw
Fun story, years ago in my office, before buying followers was well known, folks would prank each other by buying fake followers for our co-workers. They'd wake up and be so happy and surprised and then have to spend the weekend manually blocking each one.
At the time it seemed pretty harmless, but now it is definitely a threat to someone's credibility.