From Managing Products to Building Them: My First Month Learning to Code

The Startup That Changed Everything Years ago, I co-founded a digital startup with a friend in my city. It wasn't exactly a tech hub. Finding good developers was a real struggle. I was the product person: I knew the technical terms, I understood what we needed to build, I could talk to developers. But I couldn't write a single line of code myself. For our first app, we hired a third-party development team. We handed them high-fidelity designs: every screen, every component, every detail. What ca