Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

Post by sarupbanskota » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 2:35 PM UTC

joenot443 wrote: post #184

Love this idea. I'll give it a shot if I ever need to learn Redis. I'm a FAANG iOS dev who's guided a few people from 0 to dev job, so I was curious to see if you had a Swift track but it looks like not yet. Would love to hear if that's on the roadmap or not!

Post by langitbiru » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 4:20 PM UTC

sarupbanskota wrote: post #83

theptip wrote: post #44

This looks very promising, I think it could be a great resource for companies that want to invest in training their developers, but don't have the resources to build a curriculum themselves. > What new courses should we add? The courses you have already are good, but are quite low-level. To broaden the applicability perhaps you could also try something like "build a REST API that matches this OpenAPI schema" (getting…

Thanks for the ideas — you're right that automating the UI-oriented testing is more difficult. We're already piloting some ideas in this area (e.g Build your own React) — but the current focus is on perfecting what we have. Our testers are all OSS. Here's our git tester for example — https://github.com/codecrafters-io/git-tester . Others can be found on our GitHub org. https://github.com/codecrafters-io We need to do…

Post by sarupbanskota » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 5:04 PM UTC

langitbiru wrote: post #193

sarupbanskota wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the ideas — you're right that automating the UI-oriented testing is more difficult. We're already piloting some ideas in this area (e.g Build your own React) — but the current focus is on perfecting what we have. Our testers are all OSS. Here's our git tester for example — https://github.com/codecrafters-io/git-tester . Others can be found on our GitHub org. https://github.com/codecrafters-io We need to do…

Request: build your own search engine, build your own Unreal (or game engine), build your own TikTok (the recommendation part is tricky), build your own Ethereum (the VM is interesting).

Post by sarupbanskota » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 5:08 PM UTC

thrown_22 wrote: post #121

rahimnathwani wrote: post #110

I love the idea of this, and I disagree with others about the price being too high. If you're in the US/Canada/UK and planning to spend even a couple of hours per month using this to further your skills and career, then the value of your time investment will exceed your cash outlay on the subscription. That being said, I wonder whether you've considered offering a student discount for bona fide students? You could do…

I'll go further and say that a high price is a great way to screen out the worst customers.

Post by enviclash » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 8:31 PM UTC

sarupbanskota wrote: post #189

enviclash wrote: post #188

I Like your line of thinking a lot, but miss my area of work: scientific programming. You would make money with people willing to move to Julia! Also "seasoned" is a descriptor for someone that likely does not need your product, but right now I cannot think of a better synonym.

Sorry, I missed responding to this comment sooner. If you remember at all, where did you notice the usage of seasoned? We used to say that in the past (and still think that's relevant), but just wondering if we forgot to update copy somewhere. Did you mean to say we should serve the audience that wants to learn Julia?