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Student Testimonials

This is the only programming course that's ever clicked for me. As someone who just wants to build simple apps and tinker around, it was refreshing how practical the course material was. Just the bare essentials and nothing else.

Corey Haines

I've tried to learn coding on multiple occasions using different courses, but I always quit mid-way through. This course was the only one that really did it for me, and I've been able to get a good grasp on coding fundamentals through this. Additionally, Ryan's responsiveness to my emails was greatly appreciated. I look forward to taking Ryan's other courses.

Jason Seo

10/10. Best zero to hacking guide that I've found (and I've been looking!)

Brian Sierakowski

Jorge Diaz

My coding journey started with the 24 Hour MVP. Its what I needed to understand the "complexities" of app development.

I already knew a lot of how to deploy servers in wordpress and many devops or webmaster skills. But didnt knew how to program.

Now I know how things work, like controllers, create migrations, models and many more things that you teach on the fundamentals course that I just saw half of it. But now everything has clicked.

Still need to practice because by myself I think I am not ready to develop a new app from scratch. The most important part to create an app is the mockup and database organization. That was one of the main ideas I got.

Jorge's Company

Unlike “academic” courses that have long “look under the hood” spectator phase, Fundamentals puts you in the drivers seat on day 1. Grip the wheel and turn on the engine.

Get excited about your journey first and you’re more likely to appreciate the details and nuances along the way. My next goals: ship my own apps and have the confidence to oversee contractors!

Derek Kolstad

I was about halfway through the MVP course when I started feeling confident enough to try building my own website. I started building an MVP that can detect if a student's essay was plagiarized using ChatGPT.

I finished building a little over a week ago and I'm proud to say I've reached an agreement with private schools in Toronto Canada to have my software implemented.

I would have never been able to do it so quickly if it wasn't for your course. All of my coding knowledge has come from Founder/Hacker.

Tomer T.

This course stands out for its practical approach and progressive learning path.

It lays a strong foundation for you to structure an app before writing a single line of code. It's cleverly designed to ensure that you grasp key concepts before introducing shortcuts and more advanced techniques.

Overall, it's super engaging and gets straight to the point which is something I haven't seen with any other course.

Jeff Manor

I built a shopify reviews scraper after this course and I plan to cold reach out to all the merchants and talk to them about problems I can solve for them.

[Web Scraping - 8/10]

Shubham Nandeshwar

I've been learning coding not in the 'instructional' way, but in the best possible getting-my-hands-dirty format I could imagine. Ryan is a great coding instructor, as he covers most of the common challenges one might encounter with building a full fledged SaaS on your own.

I really liked how he just 'shoots from the hip' and then builds the app as he thinks through it. Normally most courses are finely polished, removing most of the mistakes, errors or simple changes.

The recordings are pure and unfiltered, and you get a great glimpse of the process. Ryan Kulp has changed my life, and I now have a great passion for Ruby as a language, as well as for the future of Ruby on Rails.

Shreyas Prakash

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I've tried to learn to code previously only to falter after HTML/CSS because the moment I started the JS part of it... it felt like 'a lot' where as I only wanted to learn stuff that'd help me build my ideas.

Ryan cuts through the unnecessary fluff that you'll never use and gives you all the tools you'll (actually) need to build things and you can pick up on other things on the go.

Fardeen

Alexandru Golovatenco

Ryan's Fundamentals course was already a great resource that helped me a lot during my journey to learning how to build my own ideas, and he did it again! The Web Scraping 101 course helps you make use of what you learned in the first one and teaches you scraping very effectively!

I love Ryan's no-BS teaching style, which is very hands-on and never gets boring!

Only a few weeks after finishing the scraping course, I was able to:

• Create a bot to help a friend get a meeting on one of those annoying administration websites

• Scrape emails for a cold emailing campaign easily in under an hour

• Build a scraper that would check which YouTubers are hiring people for a business idea

And I only spent 2 weeks in total completing the scraping course during evenings, so Ryan's the real deal!

If you want to use code to work quicker, build your own SaaS and become an owner, I highly recommend his courses.

Alex's Blog

This has been the best fundamentals course I've ever taken in my life — absolutely 10 out of 10! It really boosted my understanding and confidence. Next, I plan to keep building projects and deepening my skills.

William

Ryan hit it out of the park...

By the end of the course, I can say I feel confident enough to build pretty much any product I can think of.

He'll guide you through building 3 projects, each of which ends up being a viable SaaS product.

...Each project is more complicated than the previous one, which allows you to gradually expand your skillset.

Omar Alam

Full Review on Medium

... Along the way, you'll inevitably pick up other great skills.

You also pick up on subtle ideas that show you how a successful entrepreneur like Ryan thinks about customer experience, billing strategies and branding.

Redford Hudson

This course is one of the greatest educational resources I have ever had the honor of discovering. It’s been my dream to learn to leverage the tools of data and computer science to engage successfully with the business world and build a life for myself where I am financially and digitally literate. Because of this course, I made my first ever web scraper! This is an enormous milestone in my life trajectory, and I am incredibly grateful for the quality and accessibility of your course.

I was really impressed by the quality of this course, especially considering the fact that it’s free. You’re so well-spoken, and in my eyes you emanate the principles of efficiency and pragmatism. I took some time to learn more about you, Ryan Kulp. I think it’s incredible how confident you are about yourself and your actions, seeing as you’ve gone public with what seems to be your life’s story. And, it appears that you have made it your business to share what you’ve learned with the general community and help others develop their talents.

Your course was a phenomenal juncture in this process of self-discovery and empowerment.

Ryan's course was the catalyst to finally allow to me understand WTF is going on with code. I've been trying for years to learn. A lot of my problems come from my ADHD which is not easy to cope with. But I found Ryan's course to be a great mix of tutorial & instruction, but most importantly it is from someone you can trust. Ryan is not just a "developer" but he is a successful owner. Someone I aspire to be. I highly recommend his course, you cannot go wrong.

Carlos Arbona

10/10. Solid and straightforward Ruby course without the fluff. Ideal for people with a light or no dev background. The course will give you the right push to tackle your idea.

Pantelis Antoniadis

I took the fundamentals and web scraping course and I would 100% recommend them to anyone who has their own business or wants to get into programming. Ryan's teaching method makes the content fun to learn and he's great at integrating real world examples into his classes. Especially since those courses being free there is nothing to lose!

Tomer

Justin Tan

My video testimonial is here. But TL;DR...

Fundamentals

Before taking Fundamentals - I had next to no knowledge about how to code and failed at completing other coding bootcamps multiple times. FounderHacker fundamental is the only course I've taken which I not only enjoyed but came from the perspective of a founder (not a developer) which means I knew everything I learned would eventually translate to building my own products rather than working for someone else.

24 Hour MVP

24HourMVP was more challenging than the Fundamentals course, but way more rewarding. The three tutorials provide an awesome base that allows me to start building out a variety of product I've had in my mind for years! Going forward the goal is to build V1s of 6-12 software products over the next 12 months and become a real SaaS founder.

I have struggled to actually learn to code for many years until I took this course.

I cannot express just how much I recommend it for someone like me who has struggled to stick with the learning.

Sean G

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

Sam

I felt like this course perfectly straddled "what you need to know" and "what you should probably know." I had previously taken a few intro to coding courses... and while all of those were helpful, none of them actually resulted in me being able to scrape information, or plug into an API, or make my own executable that could do more than just some basic math or "CS 110" type assignments.

Zak Slayback

Vance Fite

This might feel like I’m fluffing, but I swear I don’t say this because we’re friends: this is exactly how I’ve wanted a coding course to be. Maybe it’s just me, or maybe it’s how I’m wired, but the content style super connected with me, probs because I couldn’t give any less of a damn about being a developer. I just want to be able to make things I want to make and I feel like people want the developing world to be complicated for complicated sake to keep people out.

Prior to f/h I’ve mostly ever noodled on wysiwyg websites, but I did try an online full stack course one time. I don’t want to say it sucked, but it def came from a developer mentality and started making huge jumps between lessons under the guise of “if you’re going to be a developer you’ve got to learn how to google.” While I agree that using your brain is imperative (for anything in life) it’s pretty hard to google how to use a hammer if you don’t know what a hammer is called or if you don’t know such a thing as a hammer even exists yet. I never finished it.

F/H felt like the opposite: no bs, was upfront about the things that weren’t important, and having the majority of the course being code along projects was exactly what my brain needs to learn. I am definitely someone that learns by doing hands on as opposed to listening to someone talk about concepts.

Really my only complaint is where it stopped. I understand starting with an MVP and I realize we all need the 101 course starting out, but I feel like I have a shiny set of new tools, learned how to build the walls, but now I don’t actually know how to put them together to make the house. Obviously, I can continue to work to Frankenstein info together from different places and log hours at the University of Google, but it’s just so painfully inefficient compared to having all the relevant info in one go to spot like this.

I imagine this is how people felt at the end of Half-Blood Prince when Dumbledore dies and they had to wait a year for Deathly Hallows to find out how things would end. Thankfully, I didn’t read HP till I was 27, so I didn’t have to wait, but I now have a new found empathy for their pain.

But for real, this course is fantastic. I’ll definitely be recommending it to anyone looking for a coding course. Please hurry and release the next one soon so you can take my money and I can get to making web apps.

I just shipped my first SaaS MVP to production! I went through the whole process of mocking up wireframes, coding them up, testing locally, and productizing with Heroku.

Did all that in 2 weeks while working my full-time job at AWS, going on dates, and doing my other hobbies all thanks to your course!!!

Elman Mansimov

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

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.