people who have "hobby" coding side projects and want to enhance them
people who have good technical skills, want to apply them creatively but don't have motivating ideas
Customer:
people who want to get a foot into the programming field (by building a convincing, hands-on experience prove portfolio)
software companies
software consultants/freelancers
experienced programmers who are willing to support/consult/teach newbies in their coding projects
Their problems
User:
Work/practice lonely
lack of certain (technical) skills to enhance their projects
lack of ideas/creativity
no marketing knowledge
poor knowledge of project communication/PR
little outreach/follower base
Customer:
lack of technically skilled and teamworkable employees with hands-on experience
Current solutions
free/paid coding courses which teach lacked skills to do it on your own
coding meetups
discord server (for different languages, frameworks, technologies)
Your solution
User:
find people with complementing skills to build unique portfolio together (to land a coding job eventually)
Customer:
advertise for coding jobs
Why now (market timing)
high demand for coding jobs
high demand for skilled programmers
people willing to pay to get into coding jobs
people want to practice on side projects to get coding jobs
Why you (founder fit)
Was/Am in the struggle of finding a coding job: build unique portfolio to proove hands-on experience - know the challenge - few month ahead
also struggling to find people with complementing skills to work on coding projects together
Derived assumptions
learners are willing to pay to find others with complementing skills to build a unique portfolio which is essential to land a coding job
teachers are willing to pay membership fee to connect with people who are willing to pay to be supported in their portfolio building and job hunt process
Derived ideas
target group: people who want to build a unique portfolio to land a coding job (and want to do it together)
Answer viability check questions by Andrew Gazdecki:
Result of reality check
The customer
User:
Customer:
Their problems
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Customer:
Current solutions
Your solution
User:
Customer:
Why now (market timing)
Why you (founder fit)
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