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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