If you don't find anything here, maybe consider checking out projects like Code4Good, Code the Dream, One Community Global, Develop for Good, or Code for America and reach out to see if they need any help. I think volunteering for a non-profit or good cause you resonate with is a good thing in general and probably also solid experience to put on your resume.

Hey!

I can speak to this a little bit as far as advice goes, as a software eng. I think a good PM is someone that works with us, advocates for our opinions, assuming they are good, and so on. Really good / quality communication between a PM and their eng's will go a long way. Being flexible and available will go a long way. I think you'll pick up on this pretty quick.

I think you should go beyond the basics of jira and probably learn other tools too at some point and aim to be a master of those. If for no other reason that you can be there as a resource if eng's need questions answered about it. It feels like every year I have to learn a new tool or get confused after some update depending on what we're using. This advice may be foo bar.

Someone else may mention this but in short, being somewhat technically knowledgeable will help a lot with understanding terms, conversely having to explain them, etc. Not all eng's are great at explaining to non-technical folks things they really need to understand sometimes. I think a PM can step in, in those instances, if done correctly.

Best of luck. Are you sending apps in currently?

I’m forever learning how to be more flexible & being the communicator between parties so I’m glad this’ll transfer over. I definitely need to pick up on tech, language, etc. It’s good to know tools but I really do need to touch up on technical details. Im putting in apps on indeed & LinkedIn but no luck yet. I’ll get there eventually though!

Okay cool yeah. Just letting you know. I know building trust quickly is a challenge so figured I'd mention that. I'd change copy and probably add more context in general.

I could go on for hours about the $199 plan but tl;dr, I think it's a bad strategy here. As a potential user who could utilize this quite a bit, It was a turn off. Just letting you know. Probably be a good idea to switch that up. Paywalls "sound" great to you as a way to filter committed users, but to me, the potential user, it doesn't. I get where you're coming from, trust me. It's not the way imo. If it were me, I'd open this up to anyone and everyone when you launch with a free tier. Get users. Any and all of them as much as you can handle and have as much meaningful convo's with as many of them as possible. That $199 isn't going to get you "valuable" users. It's going to get you people that paid $199. I think there's a lot more value to make from this project than what you'll make from that paywall. ANYWAYS.

Thank you so much for the feedback man. Really appreciate it. I think you are right, 199 will get me people who paid and not real valuable users. Will remove the paywall. Do consider registering to the free waitlist if you think this project could help you. Will personally make sure you get access on the 15th Aug when we launch this.

The website looks AI generated, which I'm not necessarily complaining about but I am noticing patterns with using claude to do similar things. Just a heads up.

I think you could make it quite a bit clearer what this actually is. It feels like it took me too long to realize it's a prompt for asking questions about your ad data.

Also, this feels like a scam, because why would there be a line for me to skip and why does it cost me $199 to do that? Seems like a weird profit strategy.

A LLM-usage observability/monitoring tool (submitted to YC F25) and random game projects. One game I'm building is a tiny IO game inspired by moomoo.io but on Luna (our moon). Once that's done I'm thinking of making something with trains.

Oof

This sucks for me because sucking up is all I feel I can do to make people like me. :p

Develop skills and confidence will follow.

Thanks! Very familiar with these.

Oh yeah I’ve been unemployed for months and only have been denied from one role. sarcasm I get two interviews a week. “Its a numbers game” is pretty wild. In all seriousness Ive probably put in 200 apps.

> Oh yeah I’ve been unemployed for months and only have been denied from one role. sarcasm

Never mind. Now I understand.

Yeah it's been rough. People keep saying "it's a numbers game" who I don't think are directly connected to the issue atm due to their current employment. I appreciate your commenting and offering advice. Perhaps it is just a numbers game. Going to try to pump up the numbers and get to like 100 apps a day instead of 20.

Didn’t mean to come off rude. I do sincerely appreciate the advice. Just trying to cope with intense anxiety and stress with humor. Sry about that

Been primarily on the backend. Last couple of years have been working with Go. Before that, a lot of Python, PHP, Node etc. Laravel, flask, gin, express. The whole nine yards.