Pods is a Registered
Non-Profit Built For Devs
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Our Mission
Pods is a registered non-profit with a mission to help equip aspiring software developers around the world with the best internet resources and help them build full-stack web-apps to help advance careers more quickly & easily.
It is a large notion repository of resources both handmade and handpicked from the internet built to be a one stop shop for developers to find the best and most interesting resources available to them - resources that we believe every dev should know about.
Pods Story
Pods started as a student run development program built to give university students the opportunity to work on Agile led teams to design, build & launch real world web-apps. It was designed and founded under my wing when I joined my university’s largest computer science club as VP of Development and it was grown from there with our small team of three student devs.
Our team eventually grew to six student developers, with three working as Agile team leaders and the other three of our team working to build out a whole new division of the Pods program we had envisioned called Solo Pods. We successfully organized and led five teams of four student developers to build and launch 5 full-stack Django web-apps; all on Heroku, all across two university semesters and by using Notion’s Agile teamwork capabilities.
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To accompany the program, I authored the entirety of the Pods notion repository on my private Notion account to provide resources that I believed would greatly benefit our program and help members to build out their Django web-apps; and they did. This is except for two resources that were authored by another instrumental member of the team.
It also contained several internet resources that we believed members of the dev community could greatly benefit from knowing about. The result is Pods.
The Pods Vision and Where We're Headed
The vision for Pods has always been to make getting into development and landing internships easier to new devs by providing them with the know-how and means to get industry respectable resume experience. Doing so has always brought me pride & passion to help guide and mentor our teams to build their best possible products for launch.
However the load from managing the program and contributing new new material into the Pods repo - all while in 3rd year dual major studies - made it clear to me that since Pods was an initiative that shouldn’t die out, and it should become open sourced so contributors can help it take on a life of its own. And that is exactly what we’ve done.
After two successful seasons of the Pods Program, unforeseen events led to my repository being taken control of and I was only able to secure a copy of it back, leaving two copies of my original material floating around online - one with me and the other with the club. Fortunately these materials are all that was needed to continue on with our mission for Pods.
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Looking to The Future
While all branding and proprietary material is legally exclusive to pods, all contributors own their material and are credited for their contributions.
Now that Pods has become open-source, we’re excited to see what new resources the dev community will add to continue making this repo into a treasure trove for devs of all experience levels.
Sincerely,
Obi I.