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Become Your Own Technical Co-Founder

Who is this for?

Founder/Hacker is a launchpad for "non-technical" employees who want to become owners. The goal of this course is to make you unemployable.

A few years into my career as a freelance marketer I had already worked with over 25 startups. But I still didn't know anything about coding besides HREF tags.

One day, a frustrated colleague told me "You don't know s*** about technology." And he was right.

A week later I dropped everything I was doing, flew to Thailand, and began teaching myself to code. Soon after I started fomo.com as the "technical co-founder" and sold it, changing my life forever.

If you've tried and given up on platforms like Codecademy, Udemy or Team Treehouse, you might think you're not smart enough to learn to code. This is false. Unfortunately traditional programming schools present material academically, not practically. We endure it for a few minutes, then quit.

Founder/Hacker is the antidote to bootcamps that train you to be a good employee. I will teach you the skills you need to build those money-making software ideas you've been kicking around in your head for far too long.

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What you'll learn

Ruby

Ruby is a beautiful, expressive backend language that powers websites like GitHub, Airbnb, Shopify, and Hulu.

APIs

Zero-to-one training on APIs and webhooks so you can make and parse requests with HTTP or open source libraries.

Terminal

Build command line interface (CLI) tools and executables that automate your work and interact with 3rd party services.

Web Applications

Deploy production-level apps with Stripe billing, user authentication, databases, admin panels, and custom domains.

Step 1 - Believe

Programmers want you to think coding is difficult. This is survival 101. But the skills you already have as a marketer or designer will make you more effective than most developers, once you develop the "build" muscle.

Step 2 - Ignore

Other programming schools train you to be "good employees," thus they teach you a lot of things that don't matter for entrepreneurs. In this course I'll explain exactly what you need to know and why, using personal examples from dozens of software projects.

Step 3 - Build

Traditional textbooks aren't nearly as effective for retention as just doing it. Within the first 10 minutes of the Fundamentals course you'll apply your new coding skills to real world problems.

The Curriculum

Founder/Hacker is a suite of 3 courses. Start with Fundamentals, then build full blown SaaS apps in less than a day with 24 Hour MVP.

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Fundamentals

Flagship course. Learn to write backend (Ruby) code and pull data from APIs.
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  • Free

Web Scraping 101

Learn to scrape any website, starting with the Shopify App Store.
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  • Free

24 Hour MVP

Learn how to build your ideas in a day with Ruby on Rails, combining skills learned in Fundamentals and Web Scraping 101.

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What Students are Saying

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I think it's great - it goes beyond the fundamentals. The hardest part of my journey so far has been working with APIs and this really helped with that. Most coding resources throw a problem at you and expect a solution. None of them show you how to walk through how to break it down like this course. 

Ryan Doyle

Thanks for the course, it's awesome. Instead of paying 2 grand for Import.io I can now do it myself, more reliably.

Sam

Ryan is a fantastic instructor.  Though I've got a decent amount of experience with Python, Ruby has always been a mystery to me.  After going through the course, not only do I have a solid grasp of Ruby, but I actually enjoy using the language.  The course is extremely valuable and entertaining!

Michael Fisher

About Your Instructor

I'm Ryan, a 3-time startup founder and partner at Fork Equity. I've spent years helping people acquire small companies, become better marketers, and now: learn to code.

To evaluate my programming chops, check out my live streams where I build SaaS apps from scratch in just a few hours.

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FAQs

Will I be able to build web apps after completing this course?

Yes! The Fundamentals course teaches back-end Ruby as well as APIs, CLIs, and Object Oriented Programming. 24 Hour MVP teaches full-stack development with Ruby on Rails, including deployment to a real domain and Stripe subscription payments.

I already know a little bit of code, is this for me?

Depends. Can you fetch and traverse data from APIs? Build command line utilities? Write and execute object oriented code? If not, we cover all of this in the Fundamentals course.