From a Tiny YouTube Channel to a Global Tech Movement
The name wasn’t random. In Spanish, "Amigos" means friends. Nelson wanted the channel to feel like a group of friends learning to code together—no arrogance, no gatekeeping, just genuine camaraderie. amigoscode
One rainy evening, he sat at his desk, set up a basic screen recorder, and created his first YouTube video. He didn’t have a fancy microphone or a professional studio. He had his terminal, a code editor, and an idea. He called his channel . From a Tiny YouTube Channel to a Global
But Nelson noticed something. The comments section, though small, was special. A developer in Brazil wrote: “Your Spring Boot tutorial helped me get my first job.” A student in India said: “I didn’t think I could learn microservices until I found your channel.” These weren’t just viewers; they were amigos . One rainy evening, he sat at his desk,
In 2019, Nelson decided to create a comprehensive course on Spring Boot—a popular Java framework that many beginners found intimidating. Instead of rushing through code, he did something revolutionary for the tech tutorial space: he explained the why behind every annotation, every configuration, every design pattern.
