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I recapped what happened in 2025 for me. I had created a Bingo game for the full year to complete multiple goals in 2025. I failed at some and to me it was the most important ones. Watch as I recap what went right, what went wrong. Subscribe to the pod! 2026 Bingo: View the Bingo game here Socials : Instagram 📸 Amateur builders TikTok 🕺🏽 Amateur Builders X 🐦 Roneilboodie

PSA...STOP watching porn! It is destroying your brain...I have a story to tell It was a time when I did not masturbate for 1 whole year. While that was a challenge for me, a big challenge. I did it! So I thought that would end my pornography addiction but boy was I wrong...tune 🎧 in to hear my story. Resources Masturbation: Facts and Fiction | Cleveland Clinic Porn Addiciton fastest growing addic...

On today's episode Ron goes into why sleep is important for you! He has experience the effects of not having proper sleep and how it can interfere with your life in a variety of ways. If your not monitoring your sleep then trust us when we say this...it will catch up to you! Sleep is something that is effortless for some but when it start to slip away then you'll start feeling what it feel...

Happy New Years fellow builders! We are back in the new year 2025. Ron is still continuing his web development arch. In this episode he demonstrated his personal website that he coded with his bare 🧑🏽‍💻 hands ...let us give it a good roast while we can. In all seriousness though it was the first thing he built for the new year and he is proud of it 👏🏾. Shows notes below, please like share and...

Our Final Wrap of the year where we go into what we both learn personally and professionally for 2024 . How have we both been mentally , emotionally , spiritually , and physically . A general discussion from the hosts on the new motions we are putting in for 2025. Follow Ron’s newsletter for Marketing tips at The Marketing Memo 📝 Video 📹 Amateur Builders Youtube Amateur Builder Shorts Socials: I...

Today on Amateur Builders, Ron discusses the top potential hoax in the Science and Technology Industry. We go down the rabbit hole of some of the most prominent technology that is slated to revolutionize the world. This includes AGI, Quantum Computing, and Nuclear Fusion. He goes through the opposing argument of each of these Tech trends that mainstream media seems like they are propping up. Is it...

In today's episode Ron briefly discusses what he is learning so far. the struggles he faces personally and technically in Web Dev. He also leaves you with what he believe the future of web development will be. Don't forget to like and share! (Outtake) Lessons learned : Web development is changing to a more ‘assistant’ role for humans since LLMs have the capability or potential to replace a softwar...

Skip to the 19 minute mark; Ron share’s his screen on how It was done. For those who are still seeking employment or a change in career, this episode will help with structuring your resume so the recruiter's eyes gravitate towards yours a bit more. Ron will walk you through how he built his resume using a post he found on Linkedin. He will also go over his personal views on structuring a resum...

We made it to 1 year and had a conversation about the lessons learned so far in building the pod! It is a ‘slow’ progress but we kept ‘consistent’ and went into those 2 takeaways for the year.  We appreciate those listeners who kept listening and stood with us as we built this into something greater. You always have to think about ‘day one’ , that was Bezos' mantra for Amazon, if you see the p...

In this episode Ron shows a sample project he is currently working on in Make. Make is a automation platform where you can connect different apps together to automate processes/workflows. Ron took one of his friends bakery side hustle and tried to automate it using Make. In this episode he will give a run down on his thought process in mapping the right application to create a seamless workflow fo...

Today’s episode is a visual one, as it will be on youtube later today as well so subscribe to us there for the latest in Vidcast. In this episode we give a breakdown on the tools we use and how we use them. We separate them into the ones we use for the pod and what we use in our personal projects. Me and Alou can design and he uses Figma a lot, I have used Sketch in the past and still find myself...

In this episode Ron discusses how ‘Sacrifice’ is important to an entrepreneur’s journey. The difficult choice they have to make is what makes or breaks someone trying to be successful.  It was a bit of a diary to Ron himself as he needed to speak on his personal sacrifices and how it affects him. When you are faced with a difficult choice it will effect you in some way but it eventually molds you...

Alou finished Part II of the Right it by Alberto Savoia, dropped lots of useful tools and strategies to validate your idea. A must listen! Follow Ron’s newsletter for Marketing tips at The Marketing Memo 📝 Video 📹 Amateur Builders Youtube Amateur Builder Shorts Socials: Instagrams 📸 Amateur Builders Thacuriousbuilder, Alou's IG   @roneilboodie, Ron's IG TikTok 🕺🏽 Amateur Builders Link...

We visited ATX to see some apartments and feel out the vibes there in the city. It was great exploring the city and seeing whats around here but the true question is if we can live here as New Yorkers.  All cities or new environments take some time to adjust to and get to appreciate and 1 trip won’t give us that comfort yet. It’s only if we decide and able to actually move here we can then get tha...

Do you want some hacks to help boost your productivity. Well we discuss two on this episode that can help put you focus through several ways.  Ron discovered a youtube video that went into how you can have 1 day as a focus day that gives you the most optimal time to produce your great work. In short burst of sprints you can accomplish a months work of work within 1 day.  Alou discusses Cal Newport...

Alou and Ron came back for a status update on what they have been up to in their spare time. The projects they have been working on. Alou has a new EdTech product he plans to build a first version of. Ron built 3 web apps on bubble io platform, a no code platform. He is thinking of deploying it for portfolio purposes.  We went into the latest Tech news, well indie hacker news. Alou spoke about wha...

In this episode Ron went a little into depth on how to think about Ads and building a brand. It is a cross-collab between you as a brand and where the ad will be placed.  It is best to put it where the place (distribution) will be relevant to the target audience you are seeking.  Some quick glance at this episode:  Ad Placement : Businesses, brands, or individuals looking to advertise their produc...

Alou gave his takeaways from The Right It By Alberto Savoia, this book is well written and is sort of like a guide book in identifying the right Ideas to build. It will be broken down into two parts, part one will be in identifying the idea and part two will be in how to test those ideas. Follow Ron’s newsletter for Marketing tips at The Marketing Memo 📝 Video 📹 Amateur Builders Youtube Amateur...

An amazing discussion with Samuel Fagbamigbe. Ron interviewed an old friend and catched up with him on his recent ventures. Sam is an entrepreneur in the leadership space, he is an advocate for AI, Entrepreneurship, Web3, and a public speaker at world wide events in Tech.  In our conversation we talked about everything from AI opportunities to Africa as the next continent to be explored for innova...

🤔Who would we interview and why? That is today’s discussion and we had a great conversation on who we selected. It was intriguing to see Alou selection, I was not expecting that.  We left off the show with a fun game. Tech Trivia! See how Alou did on these 10 questions I asked him. Trying to gauge his Tech knowledge.  Hope you guys enjoyed the episode. Like, share, and subscribe!   Follow Ron’s n...

*Solo Ep* Ron did a solo episode on his google map side hustle opportunity. He went into depth on how he tackled the Google Maps side hustle opportunity and what lessons he learned. When you have an opportunity just do it as a challenge and see what the outcome can be. It can just provide you with a new perspective on business. 5 Key Lessons take-away: Confidence  Take Risks  Be Engaged Be knowled...

We spoke about the products we intend to build and currently working on. Alou is developing a product for digital nomads. Ron is developing a blog in Python/Django and discussed what his common hurdles are.  We think that building these products will help us in different ways, one is with passive income then the other is with staying consistent in coding…as for Ron’s project. He is sticking to cod...

🎉2024 guys! We in the new year and back with Amateur builders. We hope you had a great 2023 as we did. It’s crazy to think a whole year went by and it felt like a blur.  In 2024 let’s make each moment count as we strive towards our goal of becoming better individuals whether you're striving for financial freedom, self development, spiritual / religious calling, or a myriad of life-changing ev...

🥳2024 baby!  We are ecstatic about what the new year will bring for us as we continue to grow Amateur Builders.  What can we expect from the Tech Industry next year? Well we made some predictions that we saw from others and our own.  Snippet of predictions : LLMs will perfect the ‘text-to-video’ modality and we’ll see our first motion picture production in 4K resolution Micro-businesses/services...

This ep. was a bit of a round table discussion of topics we came across throughout the week.  We roasted some websites from a design and sales copy perspective. I hope they don’t get upset 😅.  Have y'all ever felt stuck on what to actually specialize in when it comes to what you would like to create digitally or even physically? You're not alone because it happens to us as we navigate thi...