Ruby, not diamond, is my best friend

Aug 182011
 

When I sign off my emails with ‘I build Learnemy‘, I never meant for it to be a literal representative of what I do for Learnemy. But here I am, picking up ruby on rails (again). After getting grant’ed, I wanted to run through the mockups with whoever who could to understand if the product is pretty/functional enough. So I did a shout-out on my social networks, met Jason and was advised to pick up ruby on rails on the basis that a founder should know her product and my MVP is pretty minimal.

(Actually he also said that it’s worth learning programming while I’m starting up so even if Learnemy fails, I walk out with an additional skill. But I doubt I’ll want to pursue this far enough to call it a skill.)

I can’t stress how awesome it is to have a real human teaching rails by answering all my stupid and sometimes repetitive questions, and to troubleshoot my errors when I’m on the verge of banging my head against the wall.

This strategy of learning from a human + learning from videos look like it’s gonna work for the entire MVP stage. So yea, I’m coding my own MVP on rails,  design and ship it. Although I’m also toying of outsourcing tiny bits of coding work to speed time up, I’m not so sure if it’s possible or not. I shall see how things progress.

I have to confess that I really don’t have passion for programming. I appreciate the beauty of how it works and wonder why people can treat programmers like coding monkeys. (Seriously non-techies, try coding yourself.) But coding’s not something that I can get into the flow state doing so, unlike how I’m had a bad sleep last night but still up blogging at 3am. I can’t wait till the day I can focus more on marketing/community building/making a beautiful web experience when I get someone to cover the tech side. Till then, I’m gonna diy.

Shall quickly get over this hurdle, sweep some techies off their feet, get a co-founder and live happily ever after.

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Zombified

Feb 222011
 

It’s been like almost one week since my last post. Not like I hate all of you, but I’ve been more disciplined with Learnemy. I realized that by tagging along other founders (esp hardcore ones) really really help pace myself. I’ve been so ill-disciplined with my baby, spending time on youtube admiring dope rap artists than on doing something about Learnemy.

So yea, tag along someone to keep yourself disciplined.

Anyway, I’m picking up a little ruby on rails and css/html (yea, I still can’t tell both apart), holing up at Hackerspace when I don’t have to go to work for last week and being the part-time sidekick of a pair of awesome techics. I’ve been introduced to this site and hence my awesome title.

Oh, and you guys rock seriously.

<3 all of you. I don’t even know what I’ve done in my life to deserve this. :”)

Although it doesn’t make a difference if I have the most votes or the 2nd most votes, it gives me great confidence that Learnemy has the most votes. To all you who saw my previous tweet/s of me fretting out being the solo kid in a midst of adults telling my Learnemy story, I will kick some ass.

And oh, do check out pandamian too! cool product they’re building (talking like Yoda not intended).

I build Learnemy, an online marketplace that finds you the right instructors and classes in Singapore. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter    
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