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Show HN: Workouts – Learn by doing real developer projects

233 pointsby shivawuover 5 years ago

24 comments

hcheungover 5 years ago
I understand this is still under development and I can&#x27;t full judge the content unless I paid to unlock it. But this looks like a pay version of what is available on the freeCodeCamp[1]. freeCodeCamp is not only free, you can see the entire user story[2] before you take on the challenge, but for Workouts, you have to pay first to see the steps&#x2F;user stories...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freecodecamp.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freecodecamp.org</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freecodecamp.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;front-end-libraries&#x2F;front-end-libraries-projects&#x2F;build-a-javascript-calculator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freecodecamp.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;front-end-libraries&#x2F;front...</a>
ARandomerDudeover 5 years ago
Please take this comment as intended to be helpful, not rude:<p>I wouldn&#x27;t pay money to learn web or mobile technologies from a site that didn&#x27;t display well on mobile.
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qwerty456127over 5 years ago
Too expensive. I&#x27;d pay $10 for a month of unlimited access to a site full of stuff but it doesn&#x27;t seem like I&#x27;m getting much for the bucks here. Perhaps I&#x27;m wrong and the content is so good it&#x27;s worth it, I didn&#x27;t check so far.<p>BTW why is there )} at the end of every project description? Looks more like a bug than like a design feature.
blowskiover 5 years ago
I&#x27;m interested, but I&#x27;d want to see an example of the spec I&#x27;m going to build and the format of the instructions before giving my card number.
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arcturus17over 5 years ago
I like the idea a lot... Sometimes I don&#x27;t have a personal project in mind and I&#x27;d like something more guided with which I could practice.<p>However, as others have said I&#x27;d need to see what I&#x27;m getting for the price. Particularly I&#x27;m interested in how the spec is laid out, and how the solution is laid out... From university I learned there&#x27;s an art to building a pset where you give enough pointers but do not hold the student&#x27;s hand&#x27;s too much and that&#x27;s what I&#x27;d be looking for - the right level of challenge, in a nutshell.<p>Maybe you should give out a project for free, or create a sample or similar...
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travbrackover 5 years ago
Why would I do this instead of contributing to open source?
snissnover 5 years ago
I think you could make it more clear that &quot;Unlock for 9.99&quot; unlocks all the tasks under that project.
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TurkishPoptartover 5 years ago
I&#x27;m very interested, but could you perhaps provide a free open beta (perhaps invite-only) so I could see if this will help me learn before I give away money I don&#x27;t have?
woatover 5 years ago
Very neat idea.<p>I did notice that there is not many platforms that support fullstack projects. A lot of it is simple bitesized function&#x2F;method exercises (LeetCode, HackerRank, CodeSignal, etc.) and don&#x27;t encompass building applications from spec.<p>There is definitely some resistance here on HN about pricing, but I wouldn&#x27;t worry about it. There are plenty of people who pay $$$ for courses (Udemy, CodeCademy, PluralSight) so the market is there. If each workout provides at least about 1-2 hours of content, then the price is in-line, if not a bargain, compared some Udemy courses around the same length.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, while I understand that your business model is based around finder fees, there is an extreme amount of value from building a solid platform that can handle interactive fullstack courses like what you have so far. There is serious acquisition or licensing&#x2F;support potential (enterprise onboarding) if this platform grows the correct feature set.
philsnowover 5 years ago
from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;real.dev&#x2F;docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;real.dev&#x2F;docs</a><p>&gt; Can I share my code?<p>&gt; We strongly recommend against sharing your code publicly. It will ruin the fun for everyone.<p>s&#x2F;the fun for everyone&#x2F;our business model&#x2F; ?<p>Once people catch on that solving these problems can lead to landing actual jobs, there&#x27;s a certain kind of person who will share complete solutions, either widely or with some in-group they&#x27;re in.<p>Once that happens, the companies you&#x27;re partnering with will (okay, &quot;might&quot;) start noticing quality issues with the candidates you&#x27;re sourcing.<p>I don&#x27;t have an answer to this problem. I don&#x27;t understand the mind of the kind of person who shares interview problem solutions.
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janpotover 5 years ago
I like the idea. But I feel like it would be a good workout to make this website mobile friendly and accessible.
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james_s_taylerover 5 years ago
Clicked on Business and got &quot;an unexpected error has occurred&quot;. Also, mobile experience is very much treated as a second class citizen on this site.<p>First thing I&#x27;m greeted by is &quot;Unlock for $9.99&quot;. Instantly off-putting.<p>Curious though how real world does it go? I&#x27;ve got a course I&#x27;ve paid for lined up to do as my next project after I&#x27;m done with my current one which is making a clone of the internet banking experience of the bank I use. That course is a full AWS Serverless project that assumes you&#x27;ve already got AWS Developer Cert level of knowledge and the course is about how to a make production grade application. Pretty excited to go through it.<p>The real-worldness of being taken through something that is realistically complete to a production quality level is something I find pretty compelling because it&#x27;s something ordinary tutorials never give you. That&#x27;s worth money.
kreetxover 5 years ago
This is where <i>you</i> pay to get work. :p<p>But an interesting idea!
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mpmpmpmpover 5 years ago
Downloading one of the Task Templates and attempting to expand the zip file on OSX gives: Unable to expand &quot;hello-real-world.zip&quot; into Downloads. (Error 79-Inappropriate file type or format.)
sisciaover 5 years ago
Don&#x27;t do it! Just have fun and understand how stuff work and why they work as they do!<p>There is so much boring time in &quot;doing real developer work&quot;!<p>If you get time to invest, this is not how you want to invest it!
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auslegungover 5 years ago
I like this, but it&#x27;s primary draw for me might not be the expected stuff. Learning by building is a great method, but my problem is that I don&#x27;t know what to build. This website can help me by providing me with a lot of options, simple -&gt; complex. Great job!
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mendezaover 5 years ago
Would be great if there could be niche workouts of Machine Learning projects. I can see a list of machine learning projects that aspiring ML practitioners can do to build strong skills and a portfolio companies would be interested in.
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wefarrellover 5 years ago
Would love to see something like this with an infrastructure component, teaching automated deploys on AWS&#x2F;GCP&#x2F;Aure and a CI pipeline.<p>Also it would be nice to see how to accomplish the same task across different stacks and languages.
applechen777over 5 years ago
I like this idea a lot. I struggled learning new things all the time. This will give me a list of interesting projects to work on.
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Stwernerover 5 years ago
I really like this idea, and the stock market example looks really interesting. Will definitely try this out!
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sincerelyover 5 years ago
I would love something like this for a non-web-dev skillset. Does anyone know of anything like that?
ar_lanover 5 years ago
Why is this called Workouts?
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chabad360over 5 years ago
would there be a way for users to submit projects (obviously there would need to be some sort of quality control)? I would think that this would be a quick way to expand the community.
bgdkbtvover 5 years ago
This is genius. Why haven&#x27;t i thought of that :(