Self-Taught Coder Raises $690k

Marie Ng taught herself to code 2 years ago and started building a productivity app called Llama Life 🦙

She has built it to 700+ customers as a solo founder, and recently announced that she raised $690,000 for the project in a pre-seed funding round.

There’s no shortage of productivity apps on the market, but Marie’s seems to have stood out with her mission “to help people achieve calm, focused productivity.”

According to a Nov 2020 post on Reddit, building in public is how Marie got her first customers. Here’s a prime example of her doing that on Twitter 👈

Resources that helped her learn to code:

• Udemy: Jonas Schmedtmann’s courses
• YouTube: Wes Bos, Traversy Media, Dev Ed, Academind, Net Ninja, Web Dev Simplified
• Websites: JavaScript30, freeCodeCamp, Google, Stack Overflow