DEV Community: Mark Okoh

First VueJS Project - Domains For Developers

Mark Okoh — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 22:53:46 +0000

I came across “domaining”, or “domain flipping” by accident. I had an idea for an NFT platform (a little late to the party I know, but whatever), so I went to GoDaddy to buy a domain name. I found one I liked, and only $12.00 to register - great! But, I wasn’t sure if it was right, so I hesitated - wrong move! An hour later, not only had someone bought it, but they were now reselling it for $10,000. Yes $10,000! WTF!!!!

So I looked into this, and found people making a living buying domains and selling them for a profit. Who knew!??? So I bought some of my own, and guess what - they sold! Granted, for a couple hundred, rather than thousands of dollars, but still I was pleased. So I scrubbed the NFT idea (probably for the best), and built a site to sell my domains.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you DiscountDom.com - my first project built with Vue JS, which I’m really enjoying. Plan on doing more to it, but I'd love to know your thoughts on how it's turned-out.

Also please checkout out the domain names - some might work for your projects. I’m very open to offers, (low ones are fine). Currently featured (discounted even more), “Domains for Developers” - naturally!

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On-Demand Answers Lessons and Feedback, via Video-Chat

Mark Okoh — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:14:07 +0000

Just discovered the #showDev tag!

Anyway, here’s a project I did last year. The platform is called On Your Frequency - It’s for musicians, though I'd love you to try it out, as I have plans to broaden the audience. Users get on-demand answers, lessons and feedback, via video-chat.

Click “30 Sec demo”, to see how it works - don't worry, you won’t be connected to a real person! Select either “Answer” or “Feedback”, then for demo purposes, select one of the music production programs (DAWs) mentioned, though you may not know what they are. Then wait a few secs.

Would love to know your thoughts on it.

I discuss some mistakes with the project, in this Dev.to post

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Learn Vue 3 or Vue 2?

Mark Okoh — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:39:24 +0000

With the release of Vue 3, is it better to learn Vue 3 or Vue 2 if you're starting now? I touch on this subject in a video I made on learning Vue.

Interested to know your thoughts.

4 Takeaways (mistakes) From my First Big Javascript Project

Mark Okoh — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 23:24:31 +0000

I learned to code intent on building a project, I’d had in mind for some time. Previously, I’d hired freelance developers to build my ideas - some were good, some were bad, but they were always expensive! Learning to code, was a great decision - I love it!

So, I created On Your Frequency, which provides a way for new music producers and artists, to get help and feedback from experienced musicians, instantly via video chat.

Though I’m pleased with the project, I definitely made some mistakes.

I spent too much time building before testing

I did a Udemy course to create the video element, and quite quickly I had something good enough to test with users - I just didn’t realize it. So I kept building, which was fun. and I learnt a lot - Firebase, Github, Stripe integration, Bootstrap, Twilio, Node.js to name a few - but I was making assumptions. Testing sooner would have given me clearer direction.

I built too much

Any time someone said “what about adding this?” I would add it. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t, but it always took time, and made the project more complicated.

I built everything from scratch

I really enjoy problem solving, and some aspects of the project, like the video connection, work I because I experimented. However, I quickly realized the more mundane problems weren’t worth spending time solving, as they’ve already been solved many times, by people smarter than me! I could have saved time by using existing templates, and by making my own code more reusable.

I didn’t use a framework

I really like vanilla javascript. For me it’s like reading, writing and math - I don’t know how I lived without it. That said, although the platform the works, the code is difficult to maintain. It’s ’noob’ code to start with, and it’s not well organized. So I’m using Vue JS now - here’s a video I made on some great ways I found to learn it:

So what’s next?

I’m glad you asked. I really enjoyed working on this project, although it’s not perfect. The next goal is to take this concept and make it a business - part of that is writing manageable code, of course. I’ve gotten great feedback, and will be rebranding and expanding beyond music, including areas of interest to the Dev.to community. I’m also moving beyond just video. There will be some announcements soon, so if you’re interested please follow me on here. If you’d like to know more before then, ask me in the comments, or send me a message.

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5 Great Ways To Learn Vue JS

Mark Okoh — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 23:02:28 +0000

Hey Folks,

Made a short video on the ways I'm learning Vue JS.

Spoiler Alert: "Dev.to" gets a mention!

First of many (hopefully) for my YouTube channel "Take Coding". Check it out.

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