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rpandey1234 | 3 years ago | on: Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

Exactly -- that's actually the most common reason for people to join Taro today. There's a huge emphasis on interview questions (DSA) and building side projects to get into Big Tech, but these skills don't help you succeed in the job.

One way we think about Taro is a way to "fill in the gap" for what students don't learn in their CS degree or in a bootcamp.

rpandey1234 | 3 years ago | on: Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

Glad to hear that we were able to help during your internship! And very cool that you were part of Codepath -- it's been so much fun for me to help out over the years. In fact, my YouTube channel started largely because I learned about recording + video editing from Codepath.

Regarding using the app, totally understandable you don't use Taro much on mobile. As an upskilling product for software engineers, we expect most of the usage to be on desktop, which is why we just released the web app.

rpandey1234 | 3 years ago | on: Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

Agreed that there's an important distinction between engineers generally vs software engineers. Hard to fit everything in the 80 characters for the title -- I hope the first line makes it clear.

Thanks for the suggestion on surfacing the demo page more prominently, we definitely want to do better with embedding the actual content in the landing page.

rpandey1234 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it too late to start creating content on YouTube?

One thing worth mentioning: finding success in the world of education YouTube has very little to do with your technical/coding skills. Instead, once you have the baseline level of knowledge, your channel will grow through your ability to communicate concepts, along with your video editing skills. Both teaching and video production are very deep topics which take years to master. For me, that's part of the fun :)

And to echo what others said, don't expect any meaningful level of passive income from YouTube for many months. I've been making Android videos since October and have earned zero income despite having 2.5K subscribers.

rpandey1234 | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Algorithm Helper (Android app)

I wanted to share a personal project I've been working on: Algorithm Helper gives you simple and clear explanations for algorithms and data structures. The goal is create a Wikipedia-style collection of articles about various concepts that is suitable for mobile reading, which means we favor intuition over proofs.

The content is open-source at https://github.com/rpandey1234/AlgorithmHelper. I'd love any pull requests or feedback.

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