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The 💯 Digest: Best Tool of the Week, Find Your Next Big Idea, Path to Pro No-Code Developer, $200 Credits For This Tool & More!
Max Haining
April 07, 2024
“My tech startup failed because our founding team were all non-technical” - Max, founder of the 100 School
Welcome to the 💯 Digest: a weekly newsletter that helps you solve problems that matter with tech - through stories, handpicked links, and one mystery opportunity (read till the end 👀). Brought to you by the 100 School team (#100daysofnocode / #100daysofai)
This week’s 💯 Digest includes…
🛠 Tool tour: Find the tools of the week
👏 Be 100: Story behind 100DaysOfNoCode & more!
📚 Watch/read/listen: Create your own AI avatar & more!
🗻 Board meeting: Learn about our approach to education & more!
🤫 Weekly advent calendar: One mystery opportunity!
Tool tour 🛠
We’re always on the look out for epic tools. Here are the best ones we found from the last week…
🔍 GummySearch: Customer research via Reddit. Discover problems to solve, sentiment on current solutions, and people who want to buy your product. Sign-up for free.
🤖 Meet Alice: It’s a privacy-focused desktop app to 10x your productivity. Use keyboards shortcuts, pre-built prompts, all the way to automating tasks within your apps. Alice uses GPT-4, Perplexity, Claude 3 and other models. Give Alice a try.
Be 💯 just like…
Whether it's automating daily nuisances or developing groundbreaking apps, we want to spotlight non-techies leveraging tech to 💯…
Read. Watch. Listen. To... 📖
Sure, we’re all about helping you learn tech skills but if we dig a little deeper, it’s really about a committment to showing up and hitting 💯% of your potential with the tools at your disposable. Some gems to help you get there…
Join our board meeting 🏂
If you want to see under the hood and shape what’s next for the 100 school, this is your stop.
👀 First some context…
It’s Max here 👋. If you didn’t know, I run 💯 School. Growing up my tech skills were pretty bad. That’s until I started asking the “dumb” questions I was always too scared to ask - and ever since, I’ve been turning the answers into free challenges for anyone to learn tech skills (in less scary, more fun ways). Hence #100daysofnocode & #100daysofai.
I’m also a solo-founder. And get told a lot…”Max! You should get some extra help calling the shots”.
That’s where you come in.
We started as a Twitter hashtag. No curriculum, team or mission. Just me in lockdown trying to learn a new skill. Community was the only thing that kept me going. And I want to continue building this thing with you, the community - because without it, well…it wouldn’t be a thing; only an idea.
That’s why I’m going to use this little corner of the digest to share lessons and updates/questions with you every week. Like a board meeting but way more casual 😅. Thankyou 🙏
💯 WIN
First week of #100DaysOfAI & #100DaysOfNoCode is a wrap 🥳
Today marks Day 1 of the #100DaysOfAI Challenge!
Over the next 100 days, 11k+ folks around the 🌍 will learn practical AI skills in less than 30 mins every day.
Say hi 👋 if you're taking part and share 1 goal you have for the challenge👇
— Max Haining 💯 (@HainingMax)
5:30 AM • Apr 1, 2024
Both our flagship challenges started on Monday. It’s been incredible to see everyones progress in just 1 week!! Whilst I haven’t been able to reply to all the updates across X, Linkedin and elsewhere, just know I’m watching and getting inspired by you all everyday 🙏
📕 LESSON
Every learning “platform” has tradeoffs. You just have to pick which ones you’re happy to take.
Most courses are put inside Udemy, Kajabi or other “learning” platforms. With the idea that students search for, login into and access all content in one place. It’s a “neat” solution. But not for learning. It’s part of the reason online courses only have an average 7-13% completion rate. So much great content isn’t impacting people. Which is ashame, because that’s the point, right? Content is just information if it’s not served up in a way that you want to learn from it.
That’s why our learning platform isn’t a platform at all. It’s just daily emails. A channel that let’s us meet students where they’re mostly at. But this week we’ve experienced the tradeoff in this approach. Some emails haven’t arrived on time or at all (we’re investigating!) - and it’s the worst feeling in the world! Anything that stops us from impacting more people is a problem.
Yet, we’re not going to compromise on our approach because it’s the difference between sharing information and impacting peoples’ lives (like 👇). We just need to find a better solution for dealing with the tradeoffs. For those still having issues, please email [email protected] 😊
Your weekly advent calendar 🎁
Every week we share a little mystery opportunity that we think you’ll like - it can be everything from a tool discount, merch drop, event, freelance gig, new project or challenge we’re launching - we try to keep you on your toes. A weekly advent calendar but just not in December. Drum roll please 🥁….
Until next time (drop me a reply if you have any Q’s 😊),
Max 👋
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