Self-Study Planner for Developer Skill Gaps

Software developers who learn on their own face a recurring problem: they collect a wishlist of skills (React, Rust, system design, Kubernetes) but never translate that list into a realistic, time-bound plan. The result is scattered bookmarks, half-finished courses, and no sense of progress. The named product, Self-Study Planner, is a structured curriculum builder that takes a developer's skill wishlist and turns it into a concrete weekly study schedule. The solution flow is simple: a developer inputs the skills they want, their available hours per week, and a target timeframe, and the tool generates a sequenced curriculum broken into weekly blocks with milestones. The MVP is deliberately narrow: a skill-to-schedule generator with a weekly view, checkable milestones, and the ability to adjust hours and reshuffle the plan. Revenue comes from a B2C subscription, likely a low monthly price with a free tier that generates one plan and a paid tier that unlocks multiple concurrent plans, progress tracking, and re-planning when life gets in the way. Go-to-market leans on the exact demand shown in the community signals: YouTube search around self-study schedules, tech placement study plans, and career-switch roadmaps. Publishing shareable plan templates ('6-month path to a data analyst role') doubles as SEO and social content. Growth loops emerge when users share their generated schedules publicly, when completed milestones prompt shareable progress, and when template plans created by power users seed new sign-ups. The honest challenge is that this behavior currently lives comfortably inside Notion and free spreadsheets, so the product must earn its keep by removing the manual planning work, not just reformatting it.