173 karma · joined February 6, 2018
What I totally suck at - creating something that people would want and tell their friends about.
1) How many people can you reach and get unbiased opinion? (This also depends on the product segment, still some info about numbers is helpful)
2) Cost of running a survey.
1) What is the size of the pipes you are considering? Will it be big enough for humans to get into for maintenance - I was thinking what would happen if a delivery vehicle breaks down or a small animal gets into a tunnel.
2) Have you considered small blimps as delivery vehicles? The technology has got considerably better and should be less noisy than drones.
First I tried to install in windows, eventually gave up as the DB driver was not installing and had a whole bunch of compiling issues. Then installed on ubuntu after lot of bumps - I had to go all over the internet to troubleshoot lot of major / minor issues.
It seems lot of hard work went into php earlier (bugzilla needs a lot of modules) but now people are moving on to newer stuff.
1. For web scraping, you may get consulting jobs. For automation testing, search for job title of 'QA Automation Tester'.
2. Consultant / Tester / Analyst (Depending on seniority till you become Testing Manager)
3. I think there is a much larger market for testing. You can start by learning selenium. There are many testing frameworks, but it comes down to the company - which programming language and framework they use.
4. You can think of learning appium for mobile (android and iOS) automation.
5. Maybe you can try to search for work in Ruby for starts.