hadlow

Hey HN

We made Stackmash to make it easy for app or website creators to get instant notifications for their users activity. Originally built this for ourselves - we thought others may like to use a service like Stackmash. Being our first version, there are many features to come in the future such as being able to forward notifications to a number of services such as SMS, email, Slack or Telegram. As well as giving users the ability to control what shows as a notification and what doesn't. We are also going to let users integrate with IFTTT.

If you have any ideas or feedback, please let me know!

I live in the UK.

HTML/CSS is a good place to start as it is super easy and the place where many developers start. Also, it can be used to build web apps & mobile apps. From there, JavaScript will be needed at some point for a web app. Xamarin and C# is a good option for mobile apps as you can develop for both iOS and Android.

I would also recommend avoiding frameworks and libraries to begin with, until you have grasped the language. Start a project and learn while you build that project. My first project was a social network. It taught me pretty much everything I needed to know about frontend and backend development. I think the best place to get started is Udemy as they have some very detailed courses and almost always have discounts, so they do not normally cost too much.

Hope this helps and good luck.