Amateur Builders

✅Another episode where we delve into creators building in the public.  We spoke again about Ron’s side hustle on using Google Maps to find leads for his digital marketing services. We posted on Tiktok his first call and it went awful 😭.  There was this user on reddit who documented his 15+ apps that he launched or built in 2023 and the lessons he learned. He made no sales. I DM’d him, hopefully...

📢We had a great discussion in this ep on the recent tech news from last week and a interesting side hustle business Alou saw on Indie Hustle. We thought it would be ideal to share with you guys. Ron shared a similar side hustle business he plans to try out and see where he can get with that, we’ll give yall updates periodically.  What if Artificial General Intelligence was achieved? Well there we...

We developed another conceptual product but this time for the EdTech space. Alou thought it would be ideal to have a personalized version of digital courses catered towards a skill you would like to develop more. So he went about designing out a prototype. We have it linked in the show notes for your review.  Ron went ahead with some Market Research to gauge how entrepreneurs would feel about it,...

🤟Welcome back y'all. We were working on some scheduling changes as Ron’s weekend free’d up so we can now focus a bit more on the podcast’s episode submissions. We are thinking about Mondays to publish now as it gives us time to iterate on the next episode before publishing.  So we started to seek problems we face each day and 1 of them Alou came across came from a recent driving🚗 experience...

We did a quick episode on post launch marketing strategies we found exciting to implement. We wouldn’t implement it by copying it directly but taking cues from the creative element of how it was done. I think these strategies were fun. You can say one was an Ad and the other a strategy that launched this startup into the stratosphere 🚀 We have them in the show notes for y'all to review. Show...

➿We are keeping along the central idea of your idea being validated but now you’ll ‘Go to Market’ with a potential product or marketing strategy to get users.  ⏳If your product has launched already then listen up to how Alou would go about building a product roadmap to iteratively launch your new product to the world in different stages. Alou spoke about your Product Vision and where you want it...

We began speaking about the ways in which we ‘Validate’ our burning 🔥 ideas. Ideas that we think have merits in our mind but need some real life proof that people would want this. Most entrepreneurs would go through similar stages that we spoke on in this episode but obviously experiences vary when you create a product or service. Before beginning that though we thought it would be important to e...

Wrapping up 🎁the mindset series with figures who inspired us or had said something inspiring. We thought it would be best to share it here on Amateur builders. Why do we think what they had to say about mindset was impactful to us and could be for our listeners.  We also had 5 take-aways we want to leave with yall to remind you about having 🧠a mindset. I don't think I finished my list lol. ...

Another episode for the new season down the hatch. We continue with our mindset series on how to best establish your mindset going into entrepreneurship. You have to be stable mentally to prepare for this journey so this series takes you into our mental journey. Our discussion on mindset in this episode can be thought of as transitioning from thinking like a worker to thinking like an owner.  Take...

Get ready for more engaging content 😏more output from me and Alou. We are keeping the concept of ‘building’ and ‘taking action’.  We want this season to be where we have a reset to give you our process with deliverables from each episode that y'all can interact with. Please give us feedback on the deliverables we send you. It can be anything from decks to pdfs with our take on what you need a...

In today’s episode Ron went missing, lol not really. He just took this week off and wanted to reset himself. So Bob came to the rescue! Bob had some interesting topics he wanted to discuss, so we just chopped it up…  Product website : InterviewMaster Follow Ron’s newsletter for Marketing tips at The Marketing Memo 📝 Socials Instagrams 📸: Amateur Builders Thacuriousbuilder     Ron Linkedin 💼 Ron...

We had the biggest technical difficulty, we we're only able to capture 8 mins of our conversation👎🏾, but this is going to be a snippet so look forward to when we rerecord this episode. Product website : InterviewMaster Follow Ron’s newsletter for Marketing tips at The Marketing Memo 📝 Socials Instagrams 📸: Amateur Builders Thacuriousbuilder     Ron Linkedin 💼 Roneil Boodie Alhouseny Camar...

🤔We were having a discussion about where we can take Amateur builders before we started this episode and have some interesting ways in which it can get engaging. It’ll definitely change the audience's interactivity. Stay tuned as we crank that out! In other words though, Bob Ponce, our guest for today. We will formally have an episode with Bob once we schedule time for him to sit down and off...

The one and only Hans Marshalleck aka ‘ideam0n’ have appeared on our podcast offering that great Energy, Enthusiasm, and Informative insight into Entrepreneurship, Business, and his own insight on recent news happening in Tech. Tune in to hear more about Hans but a quick snapshot: Founder of BNDWGN Create and sell trips in your TikTok, Reels and Snapchat. Former Apple genius Technician 💻 Hardware...

The Pitch! 🗣️ So me and Alou went to this Pitch Competition in Brooklyn called Make it in Brooklyn where the theme was “AI for Good” . We got to pitch InterviewMaster to a panel of judges that works within the Tech Industry. Although it was bit nerve wracking in the beginning we still pushed through 💪to the end. #Makeitinbk We felt honored being one of the 5 finalist out of 40 potential startups...

We're in an apocalypse and need to figure out what we're going to build to survive. What would you you build ?. 📜Our updates until further notice: Editing Pitch Deck for our Pitch Contest on Aug. 2nd, stay tune for that with the videos and photos We will be mitigating our updates to once a month so that way we can create more engaging content to grow Amateur Builders and make it informati...

🏝️We were stuck on an island with a laptop and 3 days left before the connection runs out, what did we build? Subscribe to the latest episode to find out! Well we hope that don't ever happen to y'all but if it did…like what really would you y'all build 🤔. This is a one time opportunity to get home so use it wisely! 📜Our updates until further notice: A Pre-seed document for pitching t...

🌆We came back from an event in Brooklyn to do this podcast at Alou’s office. Dedication Dedication Dedication💪! We’ll try to keep showing up even if it’s for 15  - 20 minutes. As we stated before, sometimes a product might take a bit longer to build out than usual or we’ll get preliminary traction that will make us put time into it so we have to focus on the product at times more than the podcas...

Milestone episode accomplished ✅. Some don’t make it this far surprisingly. We kept Consistently keep putting episodes out even though we were ‘tired’🤣. It’s funny because were actually recording this and Ron’s phone died so we lost that video 🥹 but we got the audio at least. It has been valuable to keep coming back each week and setting new goals for our product that we built out to put into t...

✅Another episode down and we are reaching our first milestone, episode 10! Stay tune for that as we will be doing a recap of the progress so far. We received great feedback on the product and will talk more about it and other topics. In this episode we gave updates about our goals and if it was completed or not. *Wink Wink* it was!  Ron went over how he used Facebook Ads to promote our podcast an...

Ron is back baby! Ready to build more than ever and Surprise surprise, he got a job in his field so go congratulate him 🤣via linkedin .  We went into one more competitor that was found from Ron’s keyword analysis. Ron went a bit over some basic SEO principles but kept it simple. Alou will be building out the landing page over the weekend so we can get it ready for this investor pitch we have on m...

Ron is still on vacation, he need to get back already... lol we got work to do! But Alou had to hold it down this week and attend all the meeting by himself. Great feedback from stakeholder meetings, we talked more about it on the pod! A product to help you build: Framer⁠ Competitor we found doing something similar: PeopleGrove VMock BigInterview Socials: @roneilboodie on LinkedIn and Instagram @p...

In this episode Ron is on vacation and I'm on my break from work, but we still made it to the pod! We discussed what we learned over the week per usual, and then went on to give updates on the pod and we also have three stakeholder meetings coming up from CUNY Schools! Some product that we found interesting: Job Taken , i thought this was cool to see if your job will potentially be replaced by...

In this episode we finally did the demo! But before that we covered what we learned over the week and how it relates back to product we're building. Some market news relevant to the product: Careyaya (possible business model) Mentor collective (Study white paper) Web App Extensions, inspired by 'JobSeer' (probably defunct now) Ron went over some marketing updates: Published post on sub...

This episode was supposed to be the demo, but an expected event happened which made it not happen. It did lead to a new pivot in terms of what we're going to build, So we decided to go back to the drawing board and brainstorm a lil bit more before we come back to the podcast to talk about it in detail. Hope you guys enjoy today's podcast and let's keep exploring this journey of knowled...