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by rj254 2332 days ago
One common theme we found between our onboarding experiences is that it was often difficult to start working on a project. Typically we went through many rounds of discussions to actually understand the flow of the code. Tools like Dropbox Paper and Confluence are great at communicating high-level specifications for engineers, but fail to capture nuances needed for new engineers to continue developing.

Codeflow is our attempt at a solution. It allows engineers to easily build powerpoint-like tutorials, which focus on stepping through the code logically. We hope it can become a centralized repository of tutorials designed to capture an engineer's thought process and make ramp up more efficient.

Here's an example of a tutorial built using Codeflow:

https://usecodeflow.com/tutorials/view/aws-samples/data-pipe...

At this stage, we're hoping for feedback as we try to validate this approach. Any and all thoughts are appreciated.

1 comments

Why do I need to grant access to my GitHub account to view a tutorial?
Sorry about that! You shouldn't need to be logged in to Github to view a tutorial on a public repo. Can you try again now? We've fixed this and just pushed a fix!
Nope still needs login
Seems like we're getting rate limited by Github -- we're switching over our example to Gitlab right now which should fix the issue

Update: The rate limiting issues should be resolved.