brentsum

Joined 13 years ago

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Apr 15
building and sharing at http://launchingmyself.com
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Comment · 10 years ago
Try signing up! You can create a new listing, search existing ones, send messages to other users, and view upcoming trips. It's integrated to Stripe as well so you can actually book a trip (although I wouldn't recommend that since every listing is fictional).
Comment · 10 years ago
One of the great things about WYSIWYG is it brings you closer to what you're making. Bret Victor nails why this is important in his talk "Inventing on Principle" - these tools help beginners shape their idea into something usable. And obviously these things can't scale like Airbnb, but they can scale enough to get traction and convince a developer to join your team. As a potential co-founder, would you feel better about joining a non-technical founder 1) with an idea on a napkin or 2) some traction and a code-free prototype.
Comment · 10 years ago
Thanks! The "How to build a community site like Yelp" course launches in a few weeks. Then, the most-requested courses that I'll be adding next are 1) how to build an on-demand app like Uber and 2) how to build a chatbot for Slack/FB messenger. So I'm investigating the best way to teach those now :)

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