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Show HN: Learn by Doing Projects for Engineers – Real Dev
- sergiotapia 7y agoA little more information would be great. Very bare bones website. Sounds like something my wife who's learning to code would enjoy but I have no idea what this really is.
- applechen777 7y agoInteresting. Seems like you're an engineer, how would you learn new technology in practice? The website aims to provide a list of projects for people to learn these skills (like uploading a file to AWS).
- tomstoms 7y agoSo I have to pay to solve other peoples’ problems?
- applechen777 7y agoThese tasks are created by us from square one. It helps people really learn important backend and frontend engineering skills.
- mc3 7y agoThen the show HN title is a bit confusing / misleading.
- applechen777 7y agoYea, that makes sense. It's hard to think of a one-liner to accurately describe what Real Dev is about.
- tomstoms 7y agoHow are they real world problems?
- applechen777 7y agoWe made these projects based on work that we did in companies and day-to-day software engineering work. The idea is to inspire engineers to learn real skills by getting their hands dirty.
- tomstoms 7y agoOk. I think the headline communicates something different.
- onefuncman 7y agoWhat's the logic behind the current pricing model? Shouldn't you derive much greater LTV from a subscription model? Also, isn't it too early to monetize? Don't you want to accrue users before introducing premium? For a Show HN I would have expected the ability to create tasks out of the box. Also, instead of discouraging users from sharing code, you should embrace it via curation -- let people see other's solutions after they've submitted a solution of sufficient grade, let people code review each other's solutions, lots of low hanging fruit there that could be as simple as some automation on top of a private Github organization.
- applechen777 7y agoWe have launched it for a while. Thanks for the feedback. The reason we don't show others' solution beforehand it's because it will demotivate people to think hard and solve problems.
- McDev 7y ago>If you're a company agreeing that philosophy, we would love to connect. Join us by contributing a task, or let us know about your ideas. Do these companies who "contribute" tasks get to see the source code for the submissions?
- applechen777 7y agoThat's an old model that we used to plan to work with companies to contribute. Now we're focusing on self-learning and want to help people learn and master real engineering skills.