Been seeing a lot of posts and stuff online about people teaching themselves how to code and recommending others to learn coding. For business purposes, is it worth it to learn to code from scratch? Or is it better to just use established tools or services? In the context of someone who is interested in starting an online business but having no interest in breaking into the webdev industry.

The reason I ask is because I have my degree and masters in a vastly different field and probably won’t get remotely close in skills to someone who studied software engineering in university learning on my own, so I am not sure if learning to code is pointless or not, as it seems like ultimately I might need to get professional assistance.

  • Rain-And-Coffee@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been coding professionally for 12+ years (~16 if you count hobby stuff).

    I would focus on the business side, determine if you even need an MVP. 90% of business ideas aren’t ready to code anything.

    Bet the business idea, determine the use cases, figure out the screens. Then if you truly do need something hire someone in Europe to build it for you.

    • NewShadowR@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The reason I thought coding might be useful is to maybe make a proof of concept app or website on my own to start out with as a low risk trial before getting more investors in and see how it goes from there instead of straight out hiring people which might cost a lot more.

      Then if you truly do need something hire someone in Europe to build it for you.

      Any reason you mention Europe in particular? How would I get in touch with them? I’m not from Europe personally.

  • Successful_Sun_7617@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Easiest way to get remote gigs are in software engineeering. Also easy to stack multiple independent contracts with it.

  • DavidHallack@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Well with chat gpt and the w3 schools it is not hard to learn and be artistically creative in so actually kinda worth it in my eyes or be at the mercy of idiots who will charge you thousands and usually give crap web work.

  • interviewsiq@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I would recommend you just start trying to build something. If there is an existing tool to do so such as Shopify for e-commerce then use that. Otherwise, start trying to build and learn while doing and don’t get stuck in tutorial hell.