Show HN: Learned to code during lockdown and built a Rotten Tomatoes for tech

Re:Show HN: Learned to code during lockdown and built a Rott... by mikkom on Sunday March 28, 2021 @05:54AM (#26609124)

Is the title a nice marketing story/headline to grab attention?

You "learned to code" and coded a whole product aggregator that crawls product site reviews from unstructured tech site content, learned sql (or some nosql alternative) designed schemas and set up databases, affiliate links, quite professional html layout and built a separate "ai" based site (based on "we" header) in a year?

How did you do all this in a year from zero? If this is true I'm really curious.

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Re:Show HN: Learned to code during lockdown and built a Rott... by tavistavis on Sunday March 28, 2021 @06:03AM (#26609154)

Sure. To be clear, I've had experience building websites with Shopify and WordPress - so was familiar with HTML and CSS. I've also had experience scraping using applications like OutWit Hub.

So "learned to code" means learned Node.js, React, Next.js, Algolia, MongoBD, and running cron jobs at the most basic level to pull this off.

I have a marketing/design background, so I feel pretty comfortable making things look professional. Over the past couple of months, a developer friend of mine has been coaching me to improve my understanding of the stack I've been working with.

For reviewr.ai, I've teamed up with two talented developers, so I'm focused mostly on growth with that business.

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