#29: Haardik, Co-Founder @ LearnWeb3 | From teaching a friend about web3 development to a developers community with over 50k students

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LearnWeb3 in 9 months became one of the most popular places to become a web3 developer for free. In this episode, Haardik tells me about its beginnings, crazy growth, building a 50k+ members community & more.

Timestamps:

1:15 How Haardik feels running a 50k+ students course & how it all started

2:15 Does the bear market impact people’s interest in learning web3 development

3:24 How LearnWeb3 started in December 2021 as a way to help a friend learn web3 development

7:40 How they acquired their first users via Haardik’s Indian developer community friends & Kacie’s Twitter followers

10:20 What’s the difference between LearnWeb3 & other coding courses

14:59 How LearnWeb3DAO covers the whole path from beginner to finding a job as a developer

16:30 How their “no stupid questions” attitude & leading with an example helped to build a strong community

19:20 Activities that their community takes

22:03 Why hackathons are harder to organize than most people think

23:42 Why it was hard to integrate quizzes

28:17 Why, after working out Twitter, they started to add more events & other social media platforms

33:18 Why they wouldn’t change too much if they went back in time and started LW3 again

34:32 The reason they haven’t become a DAO yet

38:00 Why if Haardik had a magic wand, he would fix the web3 identity problem

42:36 The story when Haardik interviewed 5 North Korean hackers

51:22 Why he loves old-school projects such as Uniswap, Aave & Gitcoin

52:46 Where you can learn more about LearnWeb3

53:21 His guests' ideas