@sirtimbly so like Andela or would you hire from non-techy parts of US too? Each would be a fit for a different type of employer and a discussion I've seen NYC startups often have regarding remote hires.

@Graeme Just saw the HN thread. I've never seen a human-friendly product they like. HN reminds me of a foodie blog I used to follow where people would take someone to task for using store-bought infused oil rather than preparing it from scratch with $$$ ingredients and aging it for 3 months. Your actual market is closer to a lifestyle or growth-hacking audience where they have a customer base or followers in a particular country and communication rather than 'language' is the goal. If I may ask, is your internal debate to pursue it time vs money or just that you are prioritizing other projects?

@mmchris said in New project - looking for feedback.:

littlelingua.eu

First of all congrats for putting something out there in the wild. Now for the small stuff to fix:

Resources page:

• some cards don't have images
• pagination - the blue used to show selected page obscures the black text. The highlighted color doesn't go with the warm earthy tones of the app.
• language search box should be rounded to match the other inputs
• to clear selection, the 'x' symbol is enough. Crossing-out the text is unnecessary
• x results found in y ms - why do you need this unless the focus of the app is faster searching than competitors. Your audience expects fast results and visits the app for it's content.
• add Insta to footer as well to show travel locations. Travel + language is a hot combo for startups like Babbel
• hamburger menu on top right at tablet and lower widths just refreshes page rather than showing options

This is a cool app that I would love to use so please take my feedback as just suggestions

@karl_iaxd that’s inspiring. So what was your approach to building your first client-ready app? I start building elements like a swipe-able card or modal and then start debating where to place them on a page or what font settings to use. I can build functional apps but they don’t yet look designer-made.

@kelechi Maybe we can team up I’m doing the usual Udemy courses (Colt Steele for fullstack web apps, Angela Yu for iOS native) and supplementing it with YouTube playlists (Corey Schafer for Python, Futur for design, product based playlists for Sketch, InVision and Figma, MIT OCW for intro to algos). I don’t have a coding background but my jobs in technical industries gave me some modify/copypaste code exposure. Now I need to build stuff from scratch so I am picking up more of a theoretical basis.

@Graeme said in Hello:

this article

Thank you! I'll add those to my reading for this week.

Hi, I'm Bengun.

I'm a Sales lead at a tiny technical startup in New York. I'm working on building an app that gives a gentler and more guided introduction to our product. This is my personal pilot project so I'm learning frontend dev by myself. While the coding and UX part is relatively easy for me, I am finding the UI part challenging because I know good work when I see it but I don't know how to do it without a graphic design background. Topics like typography, spacing, padding and white/negative space are completely new to me. I would love to learn an artist's view of frontend dev from this community. Basically, how to first recreate and then adapt aspects of design I like on apps. In return, I'm happy to help the community with testing your apps and workflows or any other general research projects for your app industry or customer segment.

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