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For some reason this made me chuckle. You indeed are a minor :D
The problem OP is facing is not that s/he is unable to treat the contributor as adult. Which probably s/he is. The problem is the law does not treat minors as adults. There are reasons for this. Minors are exploited in all sorts of ways. Infact, interns(even adult ones) are treated badly. Once I was working for a company(a world leader) in the UK. A new intern joined. Next day he goes around everyones desk in the team as starts asking if they would like tea or coffee! And everyone was telling them their preference. He came to me as asked this question. This was new to me. I asked him, is this his assigned task? Who assigned him this responsibility to bring tea/coffee to everyone at thier desk? He looked shocked and confused. I said to him that I would be happy he if rather come to me with a work related problem. He did not say a word and went to the company kitchen and bought everyone else their preferred drink! This is how interns are treated. Think what will happen to minors if there was no law.
If nobody came, then talk to somebody; somebody who is willing to pay you. The success of the search for these elusive first paying customers is what makes a startup succeed or fail.
Recently my nephew built a website for his dad's "non-techy" company: https://www.punekarinitiatives.com
He used Wix and it took him a week working in his spare time.
This idea is nothing new. In one of the star-trek episodes this was the theme, the only difference there was a real human was sacrificed for each virtual human lost!
Master one field, and that advise would have been enough for past generations. But for the present and coming generations the answer is, master one field but have at least some knowledge of other(2-3) fields that you think(from your general knowledge) are important for humanity; and don't let go of your hobby. This is a not so clear-cut answer because that is the reality we live in, it is a very dynamic and competitive world!
So, in today's world it does not help to either be a generalist or a specialist. The ethos should be "Jack of all trades, but master of one"
Thank you very much!
> I wonder if you could try some pilot programs with places like https://www.recurse.com/ or other alternative educational institutions.
Yeah, that would really be helpful. Would you like to join the project and/or mentor me? You have fantastic profile and lot of experience in the education domain. You joining the project and/or mentoring me will make a huge difference to the project.
A non-profit open source platform to facilitate loan-free education to help life-long learning, as well as increase income of teaching and non-teaching staff of education institutions.
Edit: Any feedback, suggestion will help improve the project. Also, if you want to collaborate or want to know more about the project, then please email me. My email is in my profile.
You owe me a keyboard!
The link is updated to: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org
It is a separate server.
> I wasn't sure how discord works.
Discord (https://discord.com) allows a user to create a "server" for a topic of interest. Other discord users can then join the server. The admins of the server can create multiple channel for discussing sub-topics.
> The OP posted a discord username, not a different channel (I think)
Yes, you are right. OP posted his/her username. Whereas I posted a discord server link. You can join the server by creating a discord account on https://discord.com
There are lot of engineers and startup founders(aspiring as well as veterans) on that server. Everyone will welcome your insights.
I am looking for fellow engineers to work with. Let me know if interested.
C and C++ :)
I am evaluating using Wt, Bootstrap, jQuery and PostgreSQL. But that may not be the best option both to scale the app and the team going forward.
> Learning a new stack for a new app is a great learning experience, but not the most effective way to launch a product.
Initial pain may provide better dividends afterwards, that is my line of thought at this moment. But I may bite the bullet and just go with Wt as I am comfortable using it.
I am evaluating using Wt, Bootstrap, jQuery and PostgreSQL. But that may not be the best option both to scale the app and the team going forward.
The requirement here is that the web app should look and feel like mobile app so that the user is not put off from using it regularly. Also, the web app should not drain the user's device battery. Not all stacks can handle that efficiently.
This is a guesstimate. Most well-to-do individuals will not stick to old phones that do not match their outward looking status.
> Does the stack to be used represent the innovation itself?
No. But the stack should help easily build web app that look and feel like mobile app. The users of the app will be on-the-move individuals. They may not like visiting a website everytime they want some information. But building a mobile app(iOS and/or Android) is not affordable at this juncture.
> Are you doing this in order to learn a new stack (i.e: a fun project where the objective is learning about single page application stacks)? If not, I'd disregard that and go with the stack I'm most productive with to solve the actual problem at hand and deliver value.
No, it is not to learn new stack. The original question I posed stems from the requirement that the web app should be as easy to use as mobile app, and should not put off the users from using the app regularly and also should not drain their device battery.