Premium membership for ambitious software engineers

So excited to be sharing Taro today! Thank you @mwseibel and @ycombinator for the hunt 💕

Our mission with Taro is to provide the highest quality insights and tactics for software engineers to accelerate their career.

⛔️ Problem

Early in our careers, my cofounder Alex and I learned that being a good coder does NOT translate to being a good software engineer. There’s a huge gap between the skills taught in school and the skills necessary to be a talented engineer.

These skills evolve as you go from junior to mid-level to senior engineer. If you don’t get lucky with a good mentor or friend, you’ll miss the “insider” perspective on career success. For example: how do you build trust with your manager, find a promising team, and manage your time appropriately?

Especially in a post-pandemic world, where many of us are remote or hybrid, it’s hard to find quick, informal mentorship. And this isolation is particularly stark for women and under-represented minorities, who leave the tech industry at a 45% higher rate.

🌱 Solution

Taro delivers valuable content for software engineers, personalized by level and company. We also offer a premium program for full access to the membership program: compensation tips, invitations to exclusive events, and responses from career mentors.

All of this is available at a tiny fraction of the cost of a traditional career coach, and we’ve heard Taro is more valuable than any coach due to the community behind it.

Think of Taro like Blind without the toxic negativity 🤬 and like LinkedIn without the toxic positivity 🥸

🙏🏽 Thank you

Since launching this summer, 20,000 software engineers visit joinTaro.com each month, and we have more than 350 Taro Premium members.

After creating (and consuming) tons of content on YouTube and LinkedIn about career growth, it’s been so fun to build the platform I wish I had earlier..

@gear61 and I will be here all day to answer any questions and hear your feedback. Thank you for stopping by!