n00bz is a platform that helps non-technical founders get cheap prototypes built, and helps new developers cut their teeth solving real problems.
Only after shipping and attempting to sell the product would a startup hear any substantive feedback from customers. And too often, after months or even years of development, entrepreneurs learned the hard way that customers were not buying their product because they did not need or want most of its features.
-Steve Blank
To this day I see non-technical founders spend a bunch of money overbuilding an app only to have it fall totally flat. The truth is that founders (even experienced founders) rarely nail it on the first iteration. Non-technical founders need to be able to play with ideas, prototype, and learn. What they don't need is a professional software developer to help them do that. Why? Because you don't need an F1 mechanic to help you change a tire. n00bz is a platform to help non-technical founders design requirements for and build cheap prototypes of their app ideas. They can use it to prove (or more likey disprove) their underline hypotheses about their apps.
If you are in the population of up and coming software developers (you can hack something together, but you aren't ready for the job market) then instead of doing yet another tutorial, you can build a prototype, solve a real problem, and get a stipend in return.
- Clone the repo.
- Run npm install.
- Get goin!
- JS
- node.js
- jQuery
- HTML
- CSS
- a little empathy for the non-technical founder, they do the business execution that turns code into a real company
- Prototype concept design editor
- Publish your prototype designs to a public feed so that n00b devs contact you to start building it
- Dynamic list of curated resources (that are super concise) to help you design your prototype concept