Gregg Pollack, an online tutorial creator and investor in the Vue.js community, talks about his decision to invest in Vue.js and a new front-end open source project. He also shares suggestions for creating tutorials and explains why CTOs might choose Vue JS among other frameworks.
Gregg Pollack emphasizes the importance of technical accelerators to help developers learn sales, marketing, and create successful products.
View Mastery aims to be the ultimate resource for VueJS developers, providing high-quality technical learning content in the form of weekly videos.
Greg suggests bringing the team to tutorials or conferences attached to the technology, finding domain experts outside the team for consultation and guidance, and investing time in sales and marketing to ensure success.
Deep dives
Overview of Greg Pollack's background and ventures
Greg Pollack is a prominent figure in the Orlando tech community, having founded various successful ventures such as Code School, Starter Studio, and now View Mastery. He emphasizes the importance of technical accelerators to help developers learn sales, marketing, and create successful products.
The goals and offerings of View Mastery
View Mastery aims to be the ultimate resource for ViewJS developers, providing high-quality technical learning content in the form of weekly videos. They prioritize making content digestible, concise, and easily understandable. Additionally, View Mastery contributes to the View community by producing the official View News Podcast and regularly summing up the most useful tidbits in the community.
Greg's journey in technology choices
Greg shares his experience in choosing technologies like Rails and View and emphasizes the importance of considering the expertise of the team. He explains how he made choices based on the ease of development, quality of documentation, and community support. In the case of View, the incrementally adoptable nature, single-file view components, and clear conventions were particularly appealing.
Advice for teaching new technologies to a team
Greg suggests bringing the team to tutorials or conferences attached to the technology, finding domain experts outside the team for consultation and guidance, and investing time in sales and marketing to ensure success. He recommends building a mailing list from day one and using email as a primary means of reaching and engaging with the audience.
The future of online learning and View Mastery
While the online learning space may seem crowded, Greg believes there is still plenty of opportunity for innovative and high-quality content. He highlights the importance of multidisciplinary innovation and thinks it's great to see more individual developers entering the space. However, he advises that dedicating time to sales and marketing is crucial for success. View Mastery aims to become profitable and continues to focus on providing premium content and building a sustainable business model.
Covering everything from Rails for Zombies to Code School to Vue Mastery, we talk with one of the original online tutorial creators, Gregg Pollack, and how he decided to invest in the Vue.js community and a new front-end open source project.
Gregg also throws in a number of great suggestions for folks that have thought about creating their own tutorials and why CTOs might choose Vue JS among the frameworks out there.
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