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Re:Try Micromastery on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:09PM (#20678796)
A while ago I saw this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY is about "The first 20 hours" and there is a book as well. It's surprising how much could you can learn in just 20 hours. You can't be an expert by doing so little but you can learn some tricks for fun.
1) Regarding the bias on friends feedback I highly recommend you the book "The Mom Test". It's a great read on user interviews for product validation.

2) Have you tried cold emailing people? It tends to work better than linkedin in my experience. Look for people who blogged or tweeted about topics related to your product. Not everybody will respond but people that the time to share what they know have a tendency to help other people.

Have you tried Google Collab? I tend to use it a lot for running tutorials.
Anyone that liked this tutorial should check this course: https://course.fast.ai/

1) It's free 2) Jeremmy is a good teacher and one the library creators.

Re:How to get your first ten customers (2013) on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:37AM (#20625530)
This is really interesting.

I have been studying this for a while and there are other great HN posts on this subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18490437

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534034

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14797284

Re:How to get your first ten customers (2013) on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:30AM (#20625465)
Mom Test is a great book, just finished it. A short but good one is "Talking to Humans"
Re:Show HN: Marketplace to hire no-code experts on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:50PM (#20053208)
Got it. Makes sense. Thanks man!
Re:Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:56AM (#20050258)
I am curious about your example. When you guys tell management about the best practices what is their response? What is their reasoning on not doing PR reviews, tests, etc ?
Re:Show HN: Marketplace to hire no-code experts on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:51AM (#20050219)
I was thinking that this no-code thing was about giving people who can’t code the power to make apps. Could you please give an example were a no-code expert would be useful?
Re:Show HN: Tool to help developers learn legacy code on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:05PM (#20033827)
The source is extracted from the Github repository. Do you think that having it running on your local machine would be better ?

Show HN: Tool to help developers learn legacy code

I am working on a tool to help developers learn and remember code bases. Starting on a new code base is a pain, and a lot of our careers as developers involve some legacy code base.It works by breaking the code into flash cards and allow you to add an explanation for each method. This is not for documenting the code but for learning. The best way to learn something is to try to explain it and...

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