
You can learn everything — The Story of MindWeb
If you are passionate about learning or believe in constantly improving yourself, let me tell you our story. Last year we were just two people with a vision. We wanted to improve education and make it easier for people to learn new skills online. There is definitely enough material on the internet to learn anything but why are so many people not taking advantage of it?
We thought finding, selecting and evaluating the educational materials on the internet must get easier. We wanted to build a meta-platform, where all educational material could be found, evaluated and discussed.
In the process of evaluating the idea we found out that most people, who are confronted with the amount of material found on the internet, turn to a person they trust and ask for a recommendation. Thus we decided to make social interactions and recommendations the foundation of our platform and evaluate all material based on interactions and recommendations.
So we set out to build an online platform to do just that. We called it MindWeb. There was only one problem, we did not know how to code or anything about creating a website. But we also wanted to empower people to learn new skills on their own online and made the decision to learn it.
Less than one year later we are now starting the public beta test for our new platform MindWeb and are working on it full time.
During the process of learning the necessary skills we discovered another problem, many pieces of education material are widespread all over the internet, but were all necessary to complete the project and create MindWeb. So we decided to add another feature to the site, a method to create collections of materials that belong together and visually enhance them.
Naturally we created the first collection, called a board ourselves and it contains all the materials we used to learn coding and create MindWeb.
We started with the fundamentals than learned Python and chose Django as our web framework for the backend. Afterwards we also learned JavaScript and chose React, Redux and Webpack as our technology stack for the frontend.
If you also want to build a modern web application and you don’t know where to start, this is the board you need. You do not need to search the internet extensively and figure out first what you should even google for. If you just use this board you will know most of what we know and will definitely be able to create your own site or app.
And if you have also learned any new skill by yourself with material from the internet then join MindWeb, create your own board and share it with others. Together we will structure all educational material to make it easier for everyone to find the right content.
You can check out our board and create your own board here:
https://mindweb.network/board/build-a-webapp-with-django-and-reactjs
