In the first week of “Building Money Making Micro-services,” students will embark on their entrepreneurial journey by establishing the foundational knowledge and mindset needed to build profitable digital products. This week focuses on three core areas: ideation, tool mastery, and strategic planning.
Students will begin by exploring the micro-services landscape and understanding how small, focused digital services can generate substantial revenue. Through guided brainstorming sessions, they’ll identify market gaps and develop initial concepts for their own money-making micro-services. The week emphasizes the importance of solving real problems with simple, scalable solutions.
The technical foundation is equally crucial, so students will be introduced to a powerful toolkit that will serve as their development arsenal throughout the six-week program. Each tool has been carefully selected to minimize complexity while maximizing capability, allowing students to focus on building rather than wrestling with complicated configurations.
By the end of Week 1, students will have a clear product concept, understand their target market, and be comfortable with the essential tools that will power their micro-service from development to deployment to monetization. This week sets the stage for rapid prototyping and iterative development in the weeks that follow.
Resources:
- Visual Studio Code – a free open-source code editor. We will be using it to edit our NextJS web apps, commit to GitHub, and run the app locally. Extemely popular among web developers as it has syntax highlighting and refractoring.
- GitHub – a cloud-based hosting service that lets you manage Git repositories. Allow developers to manage code versions, collaborate, and crowdsource.
- GitHub Desktop – a desktop client that helps with commiting and managing repositories.
- NodeJS – an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that unifies server-side and client-side code.
- Vercel -a cloud platform for static sites and Serverless Functions that fits perfectly with your workflow. It enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and require no supervision.
- Stripe – a payment processor used by many developers, e-commerce platforms, and new startups.
