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Ryland King 🛠 Profile picture
@rylandking
Sep 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/ I live-recorded a customer interview I did today.

I'm trying to find a problem to solve in the hiring space.

Here's the audio:

I was far from perfect.

Listening back, here's how I would have improved:
2/ I should have started by asking her an open-ended question like,

"What's your day-to-day like?"

From there I could keep the convo going with pain funnel questions.

Here are examples from the Sandler Sales method: Image
3/ I also should have followed @robfitz's The Mom Test more...

The method helps to ensure people don't lie to you in interviews just to make you feel good.

Here's a summary of how to do it wrong: Image
4/ Here's a summary for how to do a customer interview right.

durmonski.com/book-summaries… Image

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Ryland King 🛠 Profile picture
Sep 23, 2020
923 days ago, it was day 1 of learning to code.

I was watching @levelsio's How to Bootstrap a Business video

His words stopped me

"To build your idea, learn to code.

Just Google, How to make a website.

Business and coding is about learning how to figure things out yourself" Image
So 923 days ago, I did what Pieter said.

I wanted to build a site with travel deals to the world's best waves.

So I literally typed "How to build a website" into Google

and I began learning to code.

Here's me literally doing it.

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I did this for 3-4 days.

Then I began to get massively stuck.

So I asked a friend.

She told me to learn HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Javascript and Jquery in that order.

And to do it using @ryancarson's @treehouse courses.

So that's what I did. Image
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Sep 3, 2020
I'm getting a one-time bonus tomorrow!

while no one else is.

I'm 99% sure it's bc of a time management strategy I've created inside @SlackHQ .

Here's how I do it.

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Let me take you back

to my first day of work.

On that day, I created a new Slack channel and I invited only my boss and boss's boss to it.

I called # rk-logbook.

and each morning I post my to-do list there.

Here's mine from yesterday. Image
As the day goes by,

I update how each task is going using emojis.

My boss LOVES this.

It gives her a real-time view of what I'm doing every day.

Each emoji has it's own meaning.

Here's the list I use: Image
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Aug 25, 2020
If you want a dev job, you've got to stand out.

Good news is, you can.

Here's five ways you can stand out:

1/ Build a small project for the company.

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2/ Find the recruiter. Message them directly. Image
3/ Write simple, descriptive accomplishments.

(Here's 185 action verbs that'll make your resume pop.)

themuse.com/advice/185-pow… Image
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Aug 16, 2020
1/ When I start a startup

it's never a straight line.

NEVER.

Remote Dev Jobs is 30 days old

and it's already changed a ton.

Here's a thread showing:

1. each phase change (so far)
2. why I made the change
3. the importance of starting
2/ My first goal was to find a "value gap" in the market

I looked at lots of remote job sites

The gap I found? Using images

No other job site used images +

human's process images ~60,000x faster than text

I'll admit, the idea is royally stupid lol

t-sciences.com/news/humans-pr… Image
3/ I sketched and coded it, and the UI felt super clunky.

I'd want to tweak an idea

(like adding multiple jobs under a company listing)

but the photos felt in the way.

I need simplicity

so I scrapped it entirely

and I began looking at UIs devs use daily. Image
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Jul 29, 2020
I'm building this! 🛠

A job's board for remote developers.

It's finally starting to feel real. 💖 Image
Here's what I've done for the mobile layout ImageImageImageImage
One to two hours every day.

Before and after work.

I'm not killing myself to get it done. I'm taking it one step at a time.

Getting my first customer may not happen fast.

But it will happen.

Having a job while I do this makes me slower, but it makes me feel indestructible.💪
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Jul 6, 2020
Shipped! First in over a year! 🎉

A blog for my fiancé — Here Now Body.

It illuminates how the power to heal lives inside us all.

Since quarantine, I've taught myself @reactjs, NextJS, @sanity_io and @tailwindcss on nights and weekends.

Here's how I did it... Image
I owe 90% of my coding skills to @traversymedia. 🙏

I took all of Brad's free YouTube courses on React.

I then bought a few of his courses on Udemy.

Cost ~$50.

Start here👇

udemy.com/course/modern-…
I also took @reactjs's tutorial and slowly read through their docs. 👇

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