#069 - Season Finale: The Boot.dev Origin Story w/ Allan from Backend Banter

#069 - Season Finale: The Boot.dev Origin Story w/ Allan

1 hour 14 minutes Posted Sep 2, 2024 at 11:00 am.

Intro

Last episode of Season 1 of Backend Banter

Boot.dev Story and what this episode will be about

How and when Allan was hired to work at Boot.dev

Timeline on Boot.dev

Guessing game

The Rebranding Process

Going Full-time

What was the curriculum in the beginning?

What was the original vision for Boot.dev

Being honest about how long it'll take you to learn to code

Setting expectations for difficulty

On learning the fundamentals

The Long Term vision of Boot.dev

Old gamification features and why we changed them

The Track is Never Complete

We cover a lot of the basics that traditional colleges don't cover

Why do we want to remove JavaScript from the learning course

Million Lessons Completed in a single month

You got to be comfortable being uncomfortable

Where to find Allan

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Today, we bring you the final episode of the first season of Backend Banter! It’s a wrap up for now. With 69 episodes behind us, we want to tell you the story of Boot Dev and how far we’ve come from our beginnings, and for that, we bring Allan Lires, the first official employee and the second person to work on our platform!

We’re going to cover our entire timeline, achievements, hardships, how Lane and Allan were able to go all-in on building Boot Dev and our visions and plans for the future.

Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev

Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm

Allan's X/Twitter: https://x.com/AllanLires

Boot.Dev Discord: https://discord.com/invite/EEkFwbv

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