Day 5: Online Presence, AI Headshots, Selling Yourself, Notification using Knock

Growing Your Online Presence: Leveraging Social Media for Personal Branding with Yuri Santana

• social media can be made use of, for personal branding & thereby grow one's online presence by using relevant hashtags

• the key to growing your online presence is to understand how to do it depending on the platform

Building an AI Headshots app with Leap AI with Alex Schachne

• Alex's advice for young developers: build something simple & ship it, this is to understand the whole flow

• get your basics strong, then get into AI

• Alex showed us how LeapAI can be used for creating AI headshots

  I have always wondered how am I gonna get such good photos.

  I'm gonna try Leapai's headshot app

Selling yourself as a developer with Ayodele Samuel Adebayo

• one must identify oneself by one's specific strengths

• build while learning

Adding multi-channel notifications to your app with Knock by Chris Bell

• notification-as-a-service

• Chris showed us a brilliant demo of how Knock can be used to abstract away the complexities when it comes to various scenarios involved with notifications.

Check out the hashnode bootcamp 2023 series to read about my takeaways from the rest of the days of the boot camp.

Cheers!