Breakthrough

My app is live. A line cook made this.

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tyler_atl
I work 50 hours a week on the line. I wake up at 5am to code before my shift. I code on my phone during breaks. I watch tutorials while prepping mise en place. Everybody at the restaurant thinks I'm crazy. My manager said "people like us don't do that." My mom said to focus on getting a better kitchen job. But I saw Sarah's post about shipping her first app. She was a teacher. If a teacher can do it, a cook can do it. Today I deployed MealPlanPro. It's a meal planning app for restaurant workers who eat like garbage because they're too tired to cook after a shift. It has 23 users already, all from my restaurant. The look on my manager's face when I showed him was worth every 5am alarm.

The barrier that was broken

Build and deploy a full-stack app

Deploy a working app with a database, auth, and real users

Learning

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