Pete-Codes

Nice work - good to treat paying customers as special

Only 8.8? In lots of UK cities it's well over 10x.

yeah, birthday date is a clever trick to add in a number

Awesome job!

I've actually been documenting stories of self-taught and bootcamp developers on my website for 3 years. It's amazing the variety of backgrounds that people have had before getting into programming. Just last week I interviewed a woman who was a Beauty Therapist until Covid hit and they wanted a career change. I also have a job board for self-taught and bootcamp-friendly positions: www.nocsdegree.com

If anyone in this thread wants to be featured, let me know.

No CS Degree does interviews with self-taught devs

https://www.nocsdegree.com

I've felt for a while that there is a ton of news from bootstrapped startups that isn't covered by the press.

Startups can be making millions but won't get any news coverage unless they raise venture capital.

So I've started doing a round up of interesting news stories from the bootstrapped world. Revenue milestones, acquisitions, podcasts episode reviews etc.

The BBC relentless drop in standards continues then.

Nice! I've often wondered what proportion survive. Tbh, I've launched about a dozen things on PH and it's not realistic for every product to be a success. You learn by your bruises so I'd be surprised if most founders didn't have a string of failed launches behind them.

Interesting to see the categories that had the best responses include no-code!

TikTok has crushed them in the Gen Z market.

In many ways TikTok re-creates the best part of myspace - being able to express your personality. You can dance, make fun of yourself, post a thirst trap or make history memes. You can't do any of that on Facebook and I'm sure the fact your videos can go viral is way more appealing.

ha, I always have to navigate whimsical tales of Italian grandfathers etc to get to the actual recipe so this is a good idea

Nice one Dutchies

Well done man!

You're doing great things with Slip and I think there is a big gap in the market here.

If anyone wants to know more about Kenneth, I interviewed him recently: https://www.nocsdegree.com/six-figure-software-engineer-sala...

Bosses also want you tied to a location. If you could change job without moving city then that is a threat to them.

Lots!

Indiehackers has a very active forum.

There are also telegram communities like wip.chat (paid) or makerlog (free)

There is the Harvard CS50 class.

There are also millions of pages on things like python vs javascript, react vs angular . Developers have lots of opinions so you shouldn't find it too hard to find out why languages have different features.

Re your newsletter form, I'd take out the first name requirement.

Very useful!!

Interesting read! I find that myself more and more.

I have some hobbies still like reading (non biz) and fitness but work dominates a lot of my time.

I can see a lot of friends will hate this, haha

Great work! Email me.

Lynne is one of my big inspirations.

A self-taught developer AND a solofounder AND self-funded.

The channel is also Oversimplified - it's actually incredibly detailed.

What a bampot!

It's great you could break this down year by year! Good to know what is possible in the long haul but also the commitment it requires.

He's done a lot on promoting remote work/ digital nomadism.

If you don't know it already, indiehackers.com is awesome - especially the podcast

Good to know!

Actually, he sent a DM to say he liked the article.

I would re-think talent. Pieter works hard.

Talent can lead you to think people are born to be successful.

Pieter just works hard. Work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

Wow, how did I miss those quotes! Yeah, he is the best :) No BS or hustle p0rn

hey, I posted the article. Good to know! I'm sure I had read it somewhere on their site. Maybe it was just from other developers that I got the impression it wasn't meant from production.

Thanks