May 9, 2025
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder
Quincy Larson interviews Sam Crombie. He's a software engineer and
prolific open source contributor to freeCodeCamp. He abandon his
job at Microsoft, got into Y Combinator, and is currently in
startup pivot hell trying to decide how to use the half million he
raised.
We talk about:
- How useful are AI coding tools, really?
- Tips for getting new users to care about your projects
- What's its really like running a Y-Combinator-funded tech startup
- Tips for getting into an Ivy League computer science degree program
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Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Sam's course on how to audit university courses: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-audit-a-class-university-course/
- College Compendium, a univeristy course auditing tool Sam built with fellow freeCodeCamp podcast alum Seth Goldin: https://collegecompendium.org/