Years later it hit me that using Git as a tutorial format in CodeRoad would have been a simpler solution for both tutorial creation and consumption. Back in 2015, I had worked on a tutorial series for[Angular-Meteor](https://angular-meteor.com/tutorials/socially/angular2/bootstrap) using[Meteor Tutorial Tools](https://github.com/meteor/tutorial-tools). Meteor tutorial tools showed me that a tutorial can be versioned in Git, and that it can help ensure each step in the tutorial in cohesive and consistent.

The idea of CodeRoad sat with me for years to the point where the product started to feel obvious in my mind. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to build a platform, but it was a tool I wanted to use, and nobody else seemed to be working on it. In mid-2019, I had spent enough time thinking about how it would work that I decided to use my spare time to design and build it out.

The idea of CodeRoad sat with me for years to the point where the product started to feel obvious in my mind. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to build a platform, but it was a tool I wanted to use, and nobody else seemed to be working on it. In mid-2019, I had spent enough time thinking about how it would work that I decided to use my spare time to design and build it.

Shawn McKay

CodeRoad creator

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