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This is a thoughtful yet such useful video, Nathan.

Thank you very much for sharing when you speak about the need to pivot, I hope you are keeping this project, CodeClimbers, alive, because I think it is a very interesting project, a tool I was looking for, and I tried a few from Waka to CodeTime, something similar being local ActivityWatch. some feedback, if I may? I just found the channel, searching for PostHog self hosting setup, as I was looking for a tool like this and trying different things I was eager to try it out BUT I HAD TO STOP, to check the local and private would be interesting to see some A/B tests with a few variants where you make it clear how it is LOCAL AND PRIVATE to clarify, great work, I liked and subscribed, registered the email... but did not start the local server yet :)

Hey, what did you use to record the video, do the zooming etc?

thanks + good luck. I might have Posthog and GA running simultaneously to see how each one works

Thank you for sharing such an honest review and analysis of your app data. It's really informative and an invitation to review future app ideas! Much thanks!

What did you end up pivoting to? IMO the low conversion rates and user retainment boil down to an unclear value proposition/messaging. What stood out for me was the main hook - "Spend more time coding". Ask who your target market is and what they want - do developers really want to spend MORE time coding? That's easy, they could: - Type with one finger while balancing on one foot - Handwrite code and OCR scan it in - Implement input rate limiting in their favourite IDE (probably using Rust) All of those sound like more fun than investing a bunch of mental effort to learn a risky new app. Personally, I have no problem staying focused once I tunnel vision on a coding session - for me it's more about knowing when to stop, get something to eat or go to sleep. Not saying I represent all devs, but devs like me want to spend more time: - With family/friends - On hobbies - Looking after our health - etc I love coding and creating immense value as a developer. But "more time coding" still equals "more time working", in my mind. Just my 2 cents. Hope that provides some useful insight! You don't necessarily need to pivot - but a thorough value prop analysis and A/B testing can make all the difference to how your product is perceived.

Great video, Nathan .. Keep up the good work

My great respect to your grandfather Dr. Stephen Covey... Lots of respect and love

Great stuff! Love the unlimited/time resources question.

Brother, the editing on this is next level. Did you do this yourself, or who's your guy/gal?

great steps! I'm sure the experience is really great too.

Slow, very limited analytics, yes they have other things, but slow versus slow hotjar is better.

Step 4 is the most important

Thank you for the overview! Data-driven decisions are the best ones. I was feeling lost within GA and Umami

I use Umami easy to set up and I see what I need in a nice way, posthog has a lot of clutter

Very cool. Love that essay! There is no world where learning to code will hurt you but distribution is and will always be king!

It’s never too late, but should you learn programming? I think being technical can be a trap. Us techies get too precious about our tech and not enough on marketing. The way I look at it is, leverage your strengths. If you’re a drummer, is it beneficial to learn the basics of guitar, sure. Is it wise for your to learn guitar? Probably not because your band mate is already excellent at guitar but sucks at drumming.

I'm banking on the fact that most people are being put off today, which means there is going to be an incoming skill shortage in a couple of years. We see this kind of behaviour all the time, but only those who genuinely like the technology, or are passionate will stick around. The skill shortage is going to be massive.

i actually started to learn coding because of AI i wanna code AI im not interested in coding personally but ill learn it for using LLMs

Great video! IDK how I got to this video but lol. I am a senior software engineer, I've previously worked in engineering at apple, and now I work at a drone company and on my own projects... I did not graduate with a bachelor or go to school to learn to code. I started learning when I was 26 and got my first junior role at 27 and now im 36 :) Now because of AI I have... excelerated some of the most challenging parts of my job, started creating a tone of projects, enhanced my game dev business goals, all because I have powerful assistance. AI will replace general engineering np, but if you are an engineer your value is still going up because you can dig deep and ask the right specific questions to our ai companions. Good luck everyone! :)

Great insights thanks Nathan! What tools you're using for screen recording?

I started to code 2 years ago at 25 but never pursued it until a few months ago. I tried to enter a web dev bootcamp but I didn't continue it because I didn't like it. As I explore other fields, I fell in love wirh low level programming because I feel like an actual programmer and I am currently learning C right now. It's hard but it's fun.

AI can write code! But i would still enjoy doing The coding by typing. Why? It's a part programmers like me enjoy!

how can it ever be too late? I started 2 years ago at 44 yrs old

Great video!

Love the video completely agree about how its super difficult but things just click and stick especially if youre doing it daily I can see i need to learn so much more however when i look back even a few months I know so much more than where i was

Gotta learn when we come straight out of the womb then

it is funny how once you start following some code tutorials on TH-cam. The recommended feed gets filled with these types of videos... All with the same thumbnails, I am tired of looking at some random dude making clickbait faces (🤯😱😳) in front of a computer... 😮‍💨

I heard a quote that fits this perfectly. The best time to learn to code was yesterday, the second best time to learn to code is right now. so forget the naysayers yes it might not be the ideal time to learn but there was never an ideal time to learn to code.

Why do you have to shut down one app to run a second? Just keep it up for a few years and see if it catches. Mind you, can't you get that same info from Task Manager? Did it solve a problem you had identified?

I started learning 2 months ago, pretty much full time. Python, then django. Did cs50p and cs50w course's, actually doing my final project for cs50w, but it's something I wanted to build before I started with course. Claude is my teacher, he wrote me script for creating my project dir tree with content of files so i just run it and then can paste file to claude so he is always up to date with my project. Im building web scraping website, getting job offers that include python as filter from all popular IT websites in my contry. Gpt is summarizing descriptions, so I have a good view what skills are in demand and how many new offers appear. Claude generated for me a lot of frontend with react, i was surprised since it didnt perform nearly that well with backend. IMO ai won't progress that much in near future, but I can build much more complex things and learn much faster that I could ever do without ai, very good leverage for people that know some coding

Coding is not entirely being an engineer. Nor is computer science. Engineers apply math and physics. Without math you are not engineering. You do find engineers in programming but in general programmers are not engineers.

The basic frontend web dev ( html css js ) can be replaced by an ai but the deep tech work like system design, data engineering, cyber security can't be

Awesome vid! Just started to learn to code for hobby and realizing I do have a genuine interest in it. Never too late to learn and I find the problem solving aspect enhances so many other facets of life. Good luck on your journey! I'm going to check out The Odin Project, thanks for the info! Cheers!

If it's too late we're all cooked

Great video Nathan 🔥 Engineering and Marketing are both as important 👏

Great video! Regarding CodeClimbers I have to say you don't maybe have to pivot the whole product but just who you sell it to. I personally don't see the vision of "how I spend my time" statistics helping me focus more. Maybe the product could be used as a smart time tracker for contractors? Instead of the endless struggle of starting and stopping timers or trying to remember when I started I could you look when I started doing something and how long it took me with some information how I spent that time. This also would make it even a bit more niche, perhaps a more easily justifiable business expense and bit easier to sell for entire team to use at perhaps a small agency instead of being just a B2C tool for individual developers.

Hey man! Amazing video, love it and posthog as well Wanted to open your twitter link, but you need to update a youtube profile info accordingly. You have a '-' instead of '_'. Keep pushing 👍

Thank you, we will start using posthog!

Nice Bro!

Bookmarked to watch soon.

Amazing 🔥 That triangle thing is a game changer. (sound’s good 👍)

Great video! Excited to see what pivot you make. I love ConvertKit because the analytics are built in (and I'm just looking at opt-in rate). PostHog looks cool tho - beautiful dashboards. Out of curiosity, how have you been driving traffic to the site? Organic social?

what do you use to record videos

Great video Nathan, thank you for sharing!

Great video!

Forgot to mention: PostHog is open source so you can also self host 🙏 Lmk if you'd like any follow up videos on PostHog!