HourUps

HourUps

Learn In-Demand Tech Skills (Fast!)

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Want to learn a technical skill - but only have an hour? HourUps is a curated collection of the best free crash courses from YouTube. Learn a skill (e.g. Python, JavaScript) or start a new career track. It's like Coursera - but completely free!
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Launch tags:Education•Tech•Online Learning
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Som Mohapatra
Quantbase
Congrats on posting! This is pretty cool, saved/upvoted. Are you picking the crash course videos yourself, or do you have some sort of scraping/quality algorithm that is doing this for you? What's next on your roadmap for this?
Nick Andrews
Maker
@som_mohapatra1 Thank you, Som! It took a while to compile these (doing it manually myself for each skill, using my experience in the tech industry and double checking with some very technical friends of mine). Next is to get more feedback to see what people really think about it, monitor usage, and see if the market "pulls" me in a particular direction. For example, maybe it will really take off with Analysts (but not Marketers), and so on.
Nick Andrews
Maker
@som_mohapatra1 Forgot to say: good luck with your launch! Unsolicited feature request: Copy Nansy Pelosi's portfolio ("Geopolitical risk? Why, it's priced in!")
Som Mohapatra
Quantbase
@nick_andrews hahah, done and done my friend: https://www.getquantbase.com/fun...
Nick Andrews
Maker
@som_mohapatra1 CLASSIC. Something tells me Quantbase is a three-headed unicorn in the making :)
Som Mohapatra
Quantbase
@nick_andrews Thanks so much Nick. I'd love your support on our launch if possible!
Nick Andrews
Maker
1 point by nandreev 17 minutes ago | edit | delete [–] OK, so it's not quite a complete learning platform. I've only covered the most popular resume keywords here. The idea was to find the best YouTube crash courses for every "hot" tech skill. "Best" is subjective, so I had to rely on video popularity, viewer feedback, and my own watch experience to gauge how effective each one is. This is for folks that: - Want to quickly refresh their skills - Want a preview of a technical topic before investing lots of time and money into it - Have an interview in 30 minutes and desperately need something, anything The goal is to get people hooked on a subject - give them a basic overview of what's going on, then lure them in with increasingly more complicated tutorials. All possible thanks to the YouTube instructors who are kind enough to put up amazing content for free.