Selling your side project, Community update & more 🤯

Useful resources for developers, story of selling the side project by a developer & an invite to our community!

Hey folks, welcome to another update. Happy belated Valentines’ to people who celebrated & best wishes for those who didn’t ;)

Today’s newsletter is for developers - specially the ones who love working on - Side Projects. So let’s dive in & feel free to pick what you like.

Let me know what else you’d like to have in the newsletter in the comments down below 👇👇

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🤓 Learning Resources

3 articles curated to take your coding skills to the next level

🟪  This box will change your life

Is the struggle of battling with margins, paddings and layout in front-end development all too familiar? Understanding the CSS box model will change your life. By exploring this powerful and fundamental concept through a series of code examples and real-world struggles, you'll feel empowered to tackle your next project with confidence.

⚔️ WarriorJS

This is a free site to learn Javascript by playing games. No matter if you are new to programming or a JavaScript guru, WarriorJS will put your skills to the test.

🐥 Web Development for Beginners - A Curriculum

The good folks at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum all about JavaScript, CSS, and HTML basics. Each lesson includes pre-lesson and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, an assignment, and more.

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🧑‍🍳 Pesto Corner

Developer from Bihar who ended up selling his side project to someone at Google

We recently recorded a podcast with Shadab, he joined Pesto last year and recently sold his side project to someone at Google!

You should listen to it if you want to learn how to ship your personal projects & make money while building it as a side hustle. Shadab has been working remotely & he’s already working on his next project. 🚢

Also, we’re hosting a live AMA event this Friday with Shadab to answer your questions and more. He was also nominated for the Golden Kitty awards after being one of the top products on Product Hunt. Join us if you’ve questions for him!

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🧰 Spotlight

One tool that helps developers work better.

Do you want to have distraction-free, highly focused hours every weekday where you work on an important task that moves you forward 💨

Then you should join start using the Centered app, which is like a virtual coffee shop or study hall from college. 

It combines flow music, mono-tasking, notification blocking, coaching, and the energy of Flowing quietly with other people.

Think of it as a Pomodoro app but on steroids.

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🚀 Discord Server

Learn how to code with the Pesto community & make new friends!

I just wanted to let you know that we recently launched our Discord server to accelerate the education and impact of the next generation of developers in India. I’ve always wanted to help as many people as possible 👩‍💻🇮🇳🧑‍💻

It is the perfect place to:
🎫 Participate in exclusive live events to accelerate your dev career
🆘 Get help related to coding questions or any other queries
👥 Set daily goals and stay accountable
💬 Chat with like-minded folks

I hope you enjoyed this version of the newsletter - if you did, come & join us on our discord server - we’ll continue to share more learnings & host sessions for you completely for free :)

We’d love to have you in our community as we build this. Until next time, adios amigoss! 👋