Today, we bring you the final episode of the first season of Backend Banter! It’s a wrap up for now. With 69 episodes behind us, we want to tell you the story of Boot Dev and how far we’ve come from our beginnings, and for that, we bring Allan Lires, the first official employee and the second person to work on our platform!
We’re going to cover our entire timeline, achievements, hardships, how Lane and Allan were able to go all-in on building Boot Dev and our visions and plans for the future.
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm
Allan's X/Twitter: https://x.com/AllanLires
Boot.Dev Discord: https://discord.com/invite/EEkFwbv
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:01 Last episode of Season 1 of Backend Banter
01:45 Boot.dev Story and what this episode will be about
02:26 How and when Allan was hired to work at Boot.dev
05:33 Timeline on Boot.dev
08:53 Guessing game
10:34 The Rebranding Process
12:43 Going Full-time
14:56 What was the curriculum in the beginning?
18:38 What was the original vision for Boot.dev
19:17 Being honest about how long it'll take you to learn to code
22:48 Setting expectations for difficulty
29:55 On learning the fundamentals
34:42 The Long Term vision of Boot.dev
41:30 Old gamification features and why we changed them
50:26 The Track is Never Complete
55:01 We cover a lot of the basics that traditional colleges don't cover
01:00:06 Why do we want to remove JavaScript from the learning course
01:06:12 Million Lessons Completed in a single month
01:08:28 You got to be comfortable being uncomfortable
01:13:25 Where to find Allan
