Hi!! I'm Riley and I built Skillboards

Skillboards is a passion project of mine, born out of the need to keep track of all the beatbox sounds I was learning. That is as cringe as it sounds. But it was a real problem I had, and I happened to be a novice web designer at the time (2020), so I did what any good wannabe would do. I cracked open Figma and made this abomination.

I called it the "beatbox trainer" and immediately abandoned the idea because no one would use that if I built it.

For some reason though, I just couldn't shake the idea. I really liked it. So it continued to churn in my head for weeks and months. Eventually, I came back, and decided that this learning format could be applied to just about any skill. So I made some more aboninations.

Iteration after iteration, even a few failed attempts to built it out for real, and finally one stuck.

Fast forward a few more years, I have a wife and kids. I'm tired of working for the man. I Want to build my own thing. I took a hard look at my list of ideas and half-built side projects, and whether I liked it or not, Skillboards was by far the best contender to actually become something great.

So I put all the other projects on the backburner and went full bore on Skillboards. This project existed as an idea / in development for a total of 6 years before anyone else laid eyes on it.

So thank you for being here. You can see if I'm making money off Skillboards yet or not by checking out the /donate page.

Scroll down a bit more to find the youtube, x, and subreddit I made for skillboards if you don't want to make an account here yet.

Now stop reading this garbage and go learn something great!