exposing my startup (as a software engineer in nyc)

🚀 Join my dev club: subbb.me/jacob
another code vlog in new york city let's gooooooo! i'm launching the mvp version of my creator economy startup later this week and I'm bringing you along for the day in the lead up. enjoy another day in the life of a software engineer building a startup in nyc.
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[@JacobSucksAtCode]

let's goooooo who else loves building?? ⚡ SUBSCRIBE ⚡

[@ckubes3389]

Bro please do create the guide.... for Javascript people....for the beginners...Pl...

[@abielortega]

Yes! Love building and this project is so cool!

[@redbeardjunior]

LETSSSSSSS GOOOOOOOOO 🏗💻

[@nichruoff]

Hey! It would be nice to accept Brazilian Real R$

[@meetthereqs]

whats going on bro! amazing content thank you!! So im using typescript for an MVP im shipping, do you reccomend taking the time to do a course since i've only used JS/React in the past? I also have experience for over a year. I just dont want the learning curve to eat into the progress of my dev time to build features for my MVP.

[@itisciprian]

if you build it with passion it is no hussle - because it will come naturally. You're an inspiration buddy! keep it up!

[@zoyW3301]

It's coming out great! It's always so motivating when you actually start to see the project come alive!

[@jaga22dl]

Congrats on the insane fast build of your startup! Very inspiring to see your progress for someone who is learning react and wanting to build their own products. Keep it up

[@FirstArtChannel]

Man o man, you give me such a motivation to build as well. This idea is out of this world and literally so useful! Excited to see you building this, good luck!

[@brunonandolpho]

love the design. Amazing job jacob.

[@daniisb06]

love these longer videos! Keep it up beast💪❤

[@artissciencescienceisart5930]

This is such a great video. I am a ar/vr dev in unity/ art-technologist and i just love love love your videos. I literally wait on them to come out. This video here and the build break down really makes me want to have the skill set of full stack dev. I just love your breakdown of the way you solve problems you love it so much that the way you talk about it comes of poetic to me lol. Keep up the good work we are watching you and supporting from afar whether you fail or not.

[@levisdad6147]

Quality of the video man is 🔥, perfect time that you uploaded cause I am studying coding as we speak!

[@yagooliveira5584]

Finally my favorite moment, new videos of Jacob!!!

[@nyxideeedits]

best motivation to work on startup even after hard work day

[@wojtekfalkowski8089]

Great video as always! I like when you show your code and you explain it!

[@BentoSushi1]

omg im so hyped this is such a great thing to wake up to

[@LaluImanIDN]

another video of jacob very hype!🙌. keep up the work man!

[@ckubes3389]

Man your timing is amazing....i just opened youtube to watch your video for motivation....by the way ...please make a video on what topics are to be understood in javascript before jumping onto react and typescript along with next.....

[@jeanmax1me]

This is sick ! Congrats man incredible product built really quick

[@Moe32244]

You're my idol when it comes to discipline, hard work, content and positivity. Thanks man for everything. love your videos!

[@franklinmike3726]

This is so good Jacob build first then iterate learnt from you

[@iEtorr]

almost 30 minutes that didn't feel at all! Nice vid man keep up the grind, you're on the path to be a hugeeeee content creator just for the amazing things that you show up and teach to everyone here! Hope the launch goes perfect!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Appreciate it!

[@snitzer85]

I really like that kind of practical people, have an idea, do it and show it.

[@user-hd6us5xg1w]

I really love this channel and what Jacob has come up with, this man has really inspired me to flex my idea muscles and start building, I have 2 big project ideas because of you. Cheers mate, keep on going🌠

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Great to hear!

[@striker8505]

I just checked it out and I think its amazing! The idea is perfect and I hope it does well! I'm a junior in high school and I'm learning Next.js in my mobile applications class and this definitely gave me a lot of motivation. Thank you and keep up the insane work!

[@theavyvatanak8999]

Studying while watching your video is relaxing for me

[@Pietrusko99]

What a great mvp, proud of yo jackob, great videos and great vibes

[@ayberk272]

Hey Jacob. Great videos but I personally would love to hear the other side of the story briefly too which is the part about how you sustain your life in NYC without having a full-time job. I think it'd be quite beneficial for a lot of people to understand how things work if they have the dream of building a start-up without having a job but still being able to make a living. E.g. is this "dev hackathon" helping you out financially or are you currently getting paid by kiki? I think that part is a little confusing so it'd be amazing if you could give us some insight on that. Cheers!

[@Bad4Good2]

Awesome product Jacob.

[@jackoulund6420]

Hey mate, I love your videos and been watching them for a while now. It's so interesting for me as a student to follow your process of shipping products. Big thumbs up from me in Denmark🤩

[@mohsinemaiet5163]

WOW MAN I LOVED THIS IDEA

[@0xAgenT]

The product demo is soo sickkkk😫

[@Lolpop751]

Dude u rock! Love the idea

[@jeffnhorner]

Broooo this is soooo legit! Love how simple the UI is. UX has to be A+. Well done!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Yoooooo legend! Appreciate that ❤️💪🏼

[@sheldon98c]

This project is amazing.

[@Cultivation-FitnessMoral-gj3co]

I appreciate this form of conveyance. I aspire to be consistent in web-developments and framework expectations.

[@ozanbilgili]

nice vid bro! good luck for launch 🎉🚀

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Appreciate it!

[@wizlinkapp]

Let's goooo Jacob!!! 🔥

[@jkrnz]

Great work, demo looks sick. Good luck for launch 🚀

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Appreciate it!

[@Alexandre_Keo]

Awesome video as always! Hey Jacob, how did you learn backend development? Was it from prior experiences?

[@RollforDrama]

Super cool, i'm using the same tech stack, love it!

[@musetesfaye949]

This is so cool. Keep it up!

[@shooKnFr0st3]

Watching this after getting off a Tech nightshift. No chance of sleep now 😂 got crazy ideas going in my head. Riding that positive energy train man! Keep it coming!!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Let’s gooooooo

[@nove1398]

This is really cool, the ease of user for me

[@nedmoore214]

Inspirational Stuff, here glad I found this channel

[@WOUUUTT]

Love the UI!

[@WOUUUTT]

Is that a tailwind theme?

[@Connor0to10]

I was trying to place your accent and then you said 'if you're a div' instead of 'if you're a dev' 😂 NZ! Awesome content, loving these build process vlogs - so much value! ❤🇳🇿🥝

[@_andrewpeacock]

Another sick video! Love the idea of Sub, and building community on tools they already use. Totally resonated with me!❤️🙌🏼👊🏼

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rajpulapakura001]

Nice tech stack 🤩

[@ommodi9246]

Such a great UI 😁

[@SIMONK479]

As someone who knows fuck all about coding. It's so interesting how writing stuff makes a Web page look so smooth.

[@LocalTennisSessionsAustr-oo6xs]

Good luck Jacob with your project. Loved you showing the code and what each segment did. Stripe is king, paypal is poo poo.

[@lonelyplanet4281]

watching me this made me enjoy my knowledge

[@Rajit7990]

I am 13 year old and want to learn full stack, ur videos make me motivated man, I cant believe that my eyes what I have just saw. Such a great app man. All the he best for your future man. Love from India.🎉❤

[@ashutosh9381]

this is sick , I want to make something like that , can you share what tech stack did you use for this

[@TheSocialDeveloper]

Juat a suggestion, but when soft deleting just have a column that says isDeleted instead of checking a column to see if a date is null or not. With the isDeleted column you are being explicit as well as using the appropriate tool for the job. If you need to keep the most recent date for a user then the column updatedAt should do the trick. Great video though!

[@IntiMaldonado]

I Spent 30 years in NYC, and I've never seen the city and offices so empty. Congrats on the launch

[@mohammed.haydar]

love the build, its aesthetics and the implementation of the idea ♥♥ --- Can I ask why you chose nestjs over Nextjs API routes?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

I’ve been using nest js for a while and also it’s super cool for microservice type structures 😎

[@som6553]

Awesome Vid!

[@medymanno8646]

Yoo Jacob what would you advice a new learner like to go and learn coding from like which app ❤

[@Codelord.]

The rate of the way ur views go per second is crazy 😂❤

[@Sakrosankt-Bierstube]

One big question: How do you handle EU payment? Basically all EU countries would have the tax included in the price i as a creator would choose there and the user would also pay the price i choose there, while in the US it would the tax on top(?). It also would be nice to set a certain date as payment interval. Because it's much easier for tax purposes to have a single big "i got X€ on the 1. of the month" position in the report.

[@MsWabala]

This is super cool! It would be awesome if the live version has a tier payment option: we can create segments and allow subscribers to decide what freemium option they want

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Just deployed tiers today!

[@MsWabala]

@@JacobSucksAtCode whohoooo! Will use it for my community and suggest it to my wellness app client too.

[@samuelgreen671]

hi Jacob, just wondering if you want to university and got a degree and if so do you think it is worth it in order to be a software engineer.

[@WhoNeedsKeyboard]

Love the content! Instead of making an existing user leave the server and join back which causes them to lose any other roles they had, get them to link their discord account to your service. User pays -> asked to link their discord using discord’s oauth -> you save their user info -> provide invite link. That way you’ll be able to grab whatever info you want directly from discord.

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Yeah 100%! Defs adding this, just gotta prioritise MVP launch 😂

[@alexandersix_]

Probably not even close to the coolest thing in the project, but your marketing page looks amazing! Love the effect that flips through the different platforms (Discord, Telegram, etc.).

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Yooo thanks!

[@_simplejack]

working that dev muscle getting a few reps in 5 days a week!

[@RKlearnscode]

#worktheDevMuscle! Great vid Jacob, keep it up. Been watching for a while now, landed my first dev role, starting in 2 weeks. Stoked!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Nice work!

[@viaosmosis2]

Let’s goooo

[@pavlepadjin9264]

Really love your progress! Just wondering, did you talk to other creators prior to building the platform? Being the user of your own product is a big plus, but having only one data point could be risky. I am also an engineer, so I totally understand the urge to prioritize building. Wish you luck with the startup, wanna see you succeed!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Not really, just solving my own problem 🤷🏼

[@Mvrkke]

Great to witness the process! Let's come back to this statement 27:05 in a year :)

[@mugerwaobadiah1621]

great work, kindly drop some tutorials for beginners to learn your stack

[@saipratheepreddy6843]

integrate CMS for dynamic content management (ex: sentry or wordpress)

[@DellmantHD]

I'm wondering how did you do the types from nestjs with swagger. Can you share some article or documentation for it? I also want to connect my nestjs types to nextjs front end

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

You can use @openapitools/openapi-generator-cli in your nextjs project 😁

[@DellmantHD]

@@JacobSucksAtCode thanks a lot! Love your videos, keep the grind going 💪

[@danferguson1069]

Welcome to the Anter program! I'm a port-co in Aus. 👋

[@AdamCole9]

How did you build the landing page and the sign up flow? Was that all custom written by you or did you leverage some existing code somehow?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Custom!

[@loubloom337]

Another sick video! Subb is looking cool

[@paul8]

Sorry, if I’m not on track, but, what happened to repobear? The website just returns a 403. Is it discontinued?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Yep paused and refunded all preorders. I talked about it a few videos ago :)

[@yashsrivastava5891]

That is a cool product.

[@invincibearofficial]

First time watching your videos, I'm also a SaaS founder, you have a good product here!

[@anonymousbro6657]

This is super awesome I and every other dev dream of doing this! But I must ask why are you writing your back end in TS I am familiar with nestjs. I just don't see how writing your back end in TS makes any kind of sense maybe someone can take the time to explain why it may or may not be a good idea

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Why wouldn’t you write it in TS??

[@throwaway-lo4zw]

bro chill on the word sick jfc

[@akseldeveloper]

Nice work 👍👍🧑‍💻

[@mohamedkhelifa1621]

W Content love the video, keep up the amazin vids :)

[@joaquinariasgomez]

Where is your backend hosted?

[@akarshanmishra2351]

Why didn't u use server actions instead of nestJs for backend?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

I like nestjs

[@akarshanmishra2351]

@@JacobSucksAtCodesick I’ll try it out for my next build

[@tbm5k]

Hey Jacob, what ui library did you use in this project and do you write tests?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

No tests. Mostly custom + shadcn

[@Annonymous001]

this is funny to watch

[@DanielPereira-jr2qd]

Have you tried drizzle instead of prisma for the backend?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

A little!

[@kotokarrera]

I'm going to move to a rural apartment that I own in a small town. I've been living in the city for almost a year and half paying rent, and renting that rural house for not more than 15-25% than the rent I'm paying in the city. Obviously I have to work a lot to sustain myself, also because of my country regulations(Cuba) it's not easy to have a good long term job with contract and so on, so basically I've been jumping from project to project not always increasing my salary/benefits. Rn I'm in a burnout of working fast paced until the point code quality/good practices is absolutely discouraged. I've been thinking of going full solo for a while now. These videos inspire me a lot although our life conditions are so different.

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Love to hear it inspires you bro. Take care of yourself ❤️

[@kotokarrera]

@@JacobSucksAtCode Keep up the good work, mate.

[@denitechYT]

you're pretty good at coding for someone who sucks at it more vlogs like this brother!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Haha thanks dude

[@paddyvjpeg]

Bad*ss man! this is dope and awesome to see the progress. Loved the comment on "patron", it never seemed worth it in my opinion for creators I follow. I want to Pay one time and get it all things that actually matter and not hope to pay for cool items.

[@Anelka465]

Jacob, why did you choose "subbb" as the name of the app? I'm just curious😊

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Cause it’s cool 😎

[@TAHAZONIX]

everything is perfect prefect quality perfect programmer prefer vibe prefect video at all

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Hahaha

[@lyndontheman4093]

Do you do testing? Thanks From Philippines! love your content!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Not much!

[@liltede]

Congratz the app looks like simple and beautiful! Missed BRL currency :/

[@cedricol]

I assume you will abstract the service's APIs (Discord, WhatsApp, ...), so that you just need to connect each via that "abstraction layer" instead of rewriting half of your app for each service. I don't have a lot of experience with such things, so I'm curious to see how you handle this, and how much of a struggle this could end up being.

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Yeah have already built for the future! Will share more later 😎

[@cedricol]

@@JacobSucksAtCode I'm looking forward to it.

[@namanshetty01]

Hey , jacob I learned some basic of programming one month before but now i can't remember what I had learned...?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

You gotta practise daily

[@medymanno8646]

Hi guys I am new to coding congrats to myself 🎉🎉🎉

[@nordices]

What language you using for the app? Also how did you learn fullstack as self thought?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Mainly typescript

[@nordices]

Nice i thinking about react native and expo for an app or if Iam going to learn flutter, what do you recommend? ​@@JacobSucksAtCode

[@milesmofokeng1551]

Do you use microservices architecture on your projects??

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Kinda

[@reas0hot]

Is it gonna be available in South Africa?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Yep!

[@robinvriens]

Hey Jacob, what mic are you using?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Dji Mic!

[@robinvriens]

@@JacobSucksAtCode thanks jacob, congrats with the launch of your startup!