the reality of coding a $100M startup

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

🚀 Join Jacob's Dev Club: www.subbb.me/jacob

[@tracetont8049]

When you said " Oh my gosh. I am such an idiot, I figured it out.", That is the best and the worst feeling at the same time :) I felt that deeply.

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Hahaha

[@xgamerzxz]

daily issue

[@Tj-bp8fv]

Jacob, this is genuinely amazing what you are doing! I'm super glad to see you thriving and can't wait to see what the future brings!

[@emersonjjsouza]

This vlog pretty much show exactly what happens behind the scenes in a startup been building by your own founders. Keep going !

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Thanks dude!

[@MarlonRibunal]

This is just the beginning of something big. We're all rooting for you! Keep at it man!

[@faizansaleem4423]

Man! that little debug session part of the video was lit 🔥. I totally agree with the authentic content part and that debug session was like literally the perfect example for it. Recently started following you, love your journey and I wish you success buddy. YOU GOT THIS!!!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

🙌

[@leeris19]

The way you solve problems. The way you hypothesize before testing that it's going to work, and the way you laugh from the fact that you're wrong. I swear, that's me every time I try to fix a bug AHHAHHHAHA

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Hahahahaha

[@MatthewHuberty]

Oh man, I do NOT miss troubleshooting Nest dependencies. We used it at my last job and it was like black magic, which was nice when it worked, but dear god when it didn’t…debugging Nest specifically is like its own skill set you could put on your resume. Watching you go through that import/constructor debug flow gave me PTSD. I feel like with a little more tooling or something, Nest could be amazing. But it needs to be better at helping the dev debug why something is just no-oping. Loving the journey btw!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Thanks dude!

[@sandrogtz]

Perfect vlog, showing the startup life and technical parts of actually building the product

[@heatherfranco5810]

Another awesome vlog! I’ve been in many different parts of the IT field for 10+ years and working to become a software developer. I can 100% agree that documentation is so important. These vlogs are a great starting point for that. It’s always great to have a reference on what was done, why and what mindset you had at the time. Looking forward to the next vlog!

[@KodeWarrior]

Well done, Jacob! I continue to be inspired by you and Maddie's hard work!

[@alreadynuked]

by far the best dev journey to follow!

[@AnorakTheOmniscient]

The concept is awesome. I love it !

[@benjohn6030]

Your work inspires me more to do more in my life. Thank you so much man. Watching you all the way from the Philippines

[@jamesdietsch7868]

These vlogs are amazing, keep up the awesome work guys!

[@BeserkGames]

LFG! Love to see it! That bagel looked incredible also, dang.

[@oSpam]

Just finished watching, dang that was a great vid man! Keep it up, can't wait to see subbb reach 5k/MRR, i'm sure it'll be soon :)

[@smyk9557]

ive been watching your vlogs over the past week or so, and these have very deeply impacted me, and the purpose im working for, thankyou for these videos, i dont care if this comment goes un-noticed, just wanted to put this out there :)

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Appreciate that!!

[@crokodiljs950]

Great job, always happy to watch a new video

[@TheSocialDeveloper]

Not sure if you're already doing Domain Driven Design, but if you aren't you should. Given that some many people are coming up with things to add this would be the perfect instance to convert the code to a more flexible model especially is you plan to scale the services you use. I think that would be step 1 and then step 2 would be breaking those different domains into micro-services where it makes sense and when the timing is right. A domain for the core app (subbb), domain for payments, a domain for external services (discord, what's app, slack, etc.). Keep up the great work!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

For sure bro!

[@MaskedEngineer-kj5kt]

Debugging hours and fix it by one line. So Classic.

[@kalist8938]

I was also happy like that when I coded my first web socket. I liked this feeling.

[@saadk6440]

JB, can you do a vlog on how you manage this channel specifically? Where do you find the time to do this channel? How do you do it efficiently? Cheers!

[@vinosamari]

Apideck could help with QB and Xero integrations. Great work

[@tadii]

I'm a pentester by day and all the websocket integrations I've ever tested were always buggy and in most cases allowed the entire application to be compromised. Let me know if you are looking for help from a cybersecurity standpoint whether it be a blackbox testing, AWS config review, or secure code review type vibes. Overall, rooting for subb 🔥🔥

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Legend! Appreciate that 💪🏼

[@isholapinheiro]

That debugging sessions is honestly SOOO real

[@panthonyy]

Haha That constructor injection, I felt that one, I've been training the juniors at my job to use it instead on injection annotations so hard because I had the same problem as you had so many times when learning Spring Boot and NestJs haha

[@DomskiPlays]

Quick question: Why the decision to use websockets for something so short lived instead of say server sent events (SSE) and a simple Kafka queue?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Hey that’s an option too!

[@DuBritoo]

congratsssss dude, keep up the good work!! a hug from Brazil

[@masabbinzia6523]

Love your Videos Man ,It helps me motivated to startup.😊

[@_boki019]

Amazing stuff Jacob, really nice series. Big insparation, and love the tech stack choice Next + Nest. If you need people for development of the subb, I am most definitely in, stay hard.

[@arpitvasani]

I am a few minutes into the video, and I believe that the integration of WA may have potential negative impacts on your customers in the future. This insight comes from my experience of working with similar situations for ~4 years

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

How so?

[@arpitvasani]

@@JacobSucksAtCode Using any software other than the official application is a violation of WhatsApp's policies. In April, WhatsApp banned 7.1 million accounts in India alone. While they may have already detected your unofficial client, they may allow its use for at least four months. However, once your client gains traction, they will likely ban your unofficial client, along with all associated IPs, and potentially some of your customers. In such a scenario, your customers may be upset as they will lose their audience. Unfortunately, there is no alternative solution as your use case is not supported by the official WhatsApp APIs. feel free to reach out if you need more info.

[@danialhasan5395]

Hi jacob! would've loved to see you join buildspace nights and weekends. maybe next season? keep building!

[@calebzwingli1649]

The number of times Jacob's said sick is just straight sick😅

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

😂

[@LeoForney]

Dude keep it up this is amazing

[@thisisCloaked]

I have a saas idea, can I sell it once I built it(without deploying)? Who to sell?

[@rtk-yt]

6:57 is just "Show Your Work" by austin kleon isn't it?

[@YusufSiddiqui-c1u]

How do people get startup ideas that will actually generate profit? Or is it mainly a hobby thing with a slight chance of being profitable

[@ashleyrasucay5204]

What type of font you used in your videos?

[@QihNeinwd]

Hey, jacob i wanted to ask something i m 15 rn building my software but i haven't opened a bank account for the software and i can't becauase i am under 18. I live in india but my saas will be in dollars. What to do? And from next time should i open a new bank account for every saas i build or just keep it one.

[@QihNeinwd]

Hey, Jacob

[@Leul.l1p]

Mhhh preety cool jacob ! Keep it up

[@ryanngalea]

Why wasn't the linter picking up the service was null?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Exactly! No idea!

[@sam-xtz4]

Jacob , I have a doubt ( reply if you have time ) If a person forget to adds up the payment for the subbb subscription, are you providing any reminder from your side to the client ? and if the subscription isn't renewed that user will be kicked out of the discord server or what ?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Yep automatic kick if subscription fails after multiple tries

[@ckubes3389]

Love your work bro....hope you soon become extremely successfull..

[@gabedogsgl]

Might want to look at the copy on your website: "Hosted on the platform your audience already love."

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Yeah, what's the issue?

[@gabedogsgl]

@@JacobSucksAtCode audience is singular so the verb love should be the singular form as well, loves “Hosted on the platform your audience already loves”. Or you could change the form of audience to Hosted on the platform your audiences already love. Also considering you support multiple platforms would the platform be plural as well? Hosted on the platforms your audiences already love.

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

@@gabedogsgl nice suggestion! Thanks dawg! 🤝🤝

[@ianfrye8988]

It's always the small problems that will get you. Was debugging an issue on my plaid integration not working this morning for almost 2 hours. Turns out I typed "plad" instead of plaid for one of my request objects (I should have created a type for it). It makes you feel so dumb but that is real authentic development haha

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Hahaha incredible

[@joey2545]

Very exciting and inspirational! Thanks for documenting your journey. Btw, what equipment do you use to record video/audio? 😅

[@georgebravo8444]

Amazing. To think I came from watching reviews of Keychron keyboards in NZ to this. You’re truly an inspiration! I wonder if you’ll be hiring interns for Subbb 👀?

[@ekcelhenrichekoumelong4457]

Is what you do there with Whatsapp Legal/Approved by whatsapp? I guess you make a connection using a controllable browser like chromium(with libraries like puppeeter) that you keep opened in the background on your servers. The user by scanning the QR code gives you full access to his whatsapp account. With that you can manage many instances and do your things. That's also quite error prone and unstable. Wouldn't it be easier to use the Whatsapp Business API?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

If there was an instance it would have a lifetime duration of only a few seconds

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

And no, there is no API that can do what is required

[@GhassneV.2]

wow were getting so much more new content compared to before 😁

[@friendly__drone9352]

I can't find it but which theme do you use Jacob? Would be cool if a "Jacob Uses" page was more prominent :)

[@Andrew-me9sp]

Hey, for your tos view - can you put a button for going back to the signup route!

[@darkunscripted3210]

Amazing video once again. So chill to view. I would like to suggest to allow like a method to buy the subscription with Ideal for the Europeans. You would only buy like 1 month at a time and get an email to extend your month every time it expires soon. Btw what camera do you use?

[@kelvindesman623]

Great content! I just have one question: isn't there a possibility your WhatsApp account could get banned? How do you mitigate this?

[@gomezmario.f]

Did I hear hiring plans? HIRE ME!!!

[@babumoshai98]

What’s the editing software you use? The video is quite cool

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Premiere

[@rashmikaabeyrathna9397]

when you ask from chatgpt, i thought like "oh god, its not only me.. pros use it too" 😂.. by the way, is it okay to show the code? it could be a security thread right?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Nothing I show is sensitive

[@sirrealists]

Where can I sign up for hire? I'm from the Netherlands tho, hope that ok.

[@dream_machine812]

Do you need to deploy a new whatsapp instance for every user that connects? Or do you simply open a new web socket connection?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Nope! Figured out an intermediate solution to only need temporary sessions

[@dream_machine812]

@@JacobSucksAtCode awesome. I was building WhatsApp bots a few months back and couldn't figure out a good scalable solution. Do you mind sharing how you did this?

[@WTateWTristian]

Sick video! Where do you get your stock music?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Epidemic sound

[@WTateWTristian]

Thanks!💯

[@ayomidewilfred1864]

Waoo. I use nest alot, we call it injectables. You inject services or modules into any other services or modules that requires it.

[@kelvindules4258]

that all looks fine = all blurred out image 😂😂😂😂

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

😂😂

[@richardthomas19]

Quick question. With connecting to WhatsApp, what if the user is using a mobile device to sign up and then can’t scan the QR code? How does that work?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Will find a solution!

[@younlok1081]

you can scan qr codes from screenshots any way the easiest solution tho is just add a button

[@keflat23]

true vibe mate

[@Adullam-TheSecretplace]

What Programming language can I learn to built platforms and apps like Jacob? I am very serious and ready to learn!

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Start with HTML and CSS 😁

[@Adullam-TheSecretplace]

@@JacobSucksAtCode Thank you Jacob, I do know HTML & CSS, what other one should I learn?

[@crokodiljs950]

@@Adullam-TheSecretplace javascript and a framework

[@Adullam-TheSecretplace]

@@crokodiljs950 Thank you!

[@Adullam-TheSecretplace]

@@crokodiljs950 Thank you!

[@Mak-Henry]

Websocket with nest js … I feel the pain

[@web.mayk3l]

Can you make video about devs club? like preview

[@mikeg3810]

Interested in the journey. Yes!

[@AmirHarong]

what your vs code theme ?

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

night owl

[@yegorgulido]

Do you think I'm able to get an intership at 15?

[@necaracic]

would you ever post short form content

[@afro-dev]

Where and how do you host the nestjs app

[@md_yass]

so sick ❤‍🔥

[@SamOdiagbe]

Give me a challenge and if I am able to build it, you have to hire me ( fair deal)😂😂😂

[@enio.carlos]

Man thats amazing, something funning: I would swear you are saying div, not dev (the subtitles got your back this time).

[@zoyW3301]

Let's goo! About to crush 35k also 👍

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Hell yeeeeeah

[@indiancomedyseries1368]

I just wanna know why you didn't purchase a desktop for your home???

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

I’ve got a laptop

[@indiancomedyseries1368]

Just last question How much time can run your laptop by your laptop battery???

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

About 6-8 hours!

[@indiancomedyseries1368]

I wish your start up will get success Keep going Sir

[@luizarnoldchavezburgos3638]

I want to achieve the same feel you get. Thanks for me make me feel that is possible

[@blackflash27]

I'm gonna like the video before I watch it

[@arpitchaudhary563]

Love your vlogs

[@saieshdabholkar5559]

hey man , new here but want to grow up my career on fastrack mode

[@simonluckhoff]

(swallows in dev) 😂😂

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

😂

[@henryisproductive]

you are amazing

[@Hasan10-oh7vl]

Love it !! Do you need a video editor bro ? I can do a sample video ;)

[@levisdad6147]

If you need anyone in Finance, I am your guy!

[@geralddd.g]

Hire me once you start hiring, i would love to be apart of this

[@akseldeveloper]

Nice work👋👍

[@shotamoon]

this is so weird, he looks british but the new york accent is just puzzling me

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

Bro I’m from NZ - do I have a NYC ACCENT? 😅

[@shotamoon]

@@JacobSucksAtCode Oh NZ! explains alot, kei te pehea koe. And as a software engineer, you took on quiet a large project. My head would have spun by now, keep going!!

[@zxenon_]

That's pretty sick 😅

[@wajdpixel4558]

I wanna study computer science in Harvard university. And learn on my own . Is it true that ❤❤😊😊.please reply 😊😊😊❤

[@PeopleWatchingMarcus]

Subbed

[@Alex-c5s9r]

Hi, I am watching your video and asking myself if you went to university. I´m thinking in going to computer science in university or business, so pls tell me! haha

[@JacobSucksAtCode]

I didn’t 😂

[@haris1558ssss]

Subscribed 🤝

[@JosiaSchweizer]

fr nice video but I think it's time for a new cam with a better autofocus ahhahaah

[@amineamazzal4985]

hi jacob, if you hiring people, i can start with you as an intern, i need to get more exp with you guys,

[@athaanggoro3974]

Seseru itu kah menjadi full-stack Dev, seandainya aku bisa. Saat ini aku hanya sebagai front-end Dev😢😢

[@SimoneCorso]

Let’s goooooo, by Italy 🇮🇹

[@craiggazimbi]

Hi bro . Craig here. Amazing video. Shared an email regarding hiring , some days back . Would love to get on a call man. 🚀

[@blahblahblah-u3m]

google but not chatgpt.

[@MoneyMakingIdeas-p6p]

Giving up is not a option