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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out
0:06.0	there.
0:07.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Zelensky and West Boss.
0:11.5	Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:16.8	Today we've got a good one for you.
0:18.4	This is a question we get all the time is West and Scott, what are your stacks?
0:23.4	So if you don't know, Scott and I both sell online courses where you can buy them, you
0:30.4	can click on them, you can view the course and there's a whole bunch else that goes along
0:36.4	with that.
0:37.4	And Scott and I both have built our own course platforms for, I don't know, five, six,
0:42.4	seven, eight, nine years.
0:45.2	And we did, maybe about four years ago, we did an episode that explained our stack.
0:50.8	And they've changed since then, they've changed a little bit here, a little bit there.
0:57.0	And I just released a big update to mine as well.
0:59.4	So I thought we would go through the stack that we are currently using and how all the
1:05.0	pieces work together to sell and distribute courses.
1:09.4	And it's kind of interesting because we kind of do the same thing like the, our course
1:14.7	platforms do very similar things and they, they're both built pretty differently.
1:20.4	I don't know, not super differently, but out of different tech.
1:23.4	So it's kind of fun to go back and forth.
1:25.5	So we're going to go through each of the sections, API dashboard viewing, admin tooling,
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