In this YouTube series, I show how I build a mini startup called http://hoodmaps.com from the first line of code to a functioning web app. This was recorded in April 2017. A few months later, in July 2017 I launched the final web app http://hoodmaps.com to the frontpage of Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News and Beta List and over 200,000 people used it and it's now gaining traction (and hopefully a business model later). It's interesting because it shows how to make a basic web app that can get successful by writing plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (with jQuery) code. No frameworks, no bullshit. Enjoy!

 Read more: https://levels.io/hoodmaps THIS EPISODE: Today we'll build the first prototype of Hoodmaps. My idea was to make a map anyone can draw on and categorize a city by colors which in turn reference to certain categories like "hipster" or "business". This way, you can navigate a city better. I start out with just plain HTML, CSS and JS and we see how far we get. At the end we have a functioning map that you can draw on with colors.

 Recorded: 2017-03-31 23h00

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