“it just seemed to me like there's this huge vacuum in the market where if you wanted to learn back-end stuff you want to learn databases infrastructure it's very hard to do it online”

Identify a Market Vacuum Where Good Online Resources Do Not Exist

Lane was a back-end engineering manager struggling to hire Go developers — only five or six applicants would show up for open roles. He observed that online learning platforms were pushing learners toward front-end, leaving a wide-open gap for back-end education. This direct, first-hand pain validated the market before he wrote a single line of boot.dev.