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People often forget that what made go / rust / js popular is big corporations, they have much more resources to burn than an individual. So they value performance on the long run. But somehow this misled a lot of people (myself included) into thinking that rust / go is a good way to make successful startups. Because what if you grew 1 million visitors per month? It's the phantom fantasy of a foolish developer who haven't started a single successful product. The lesson is, choose the fastest stack for shipping features, and if you still got throttled by their "slowness" then just double the bill. By that time, you would make much more money, you can hire staff, you would do much more. And the language won't hold you back because it's so simple to add a new feature down the road. I wish I have known about rails earlier, but hard lessons come later when you got punched hard.

Thanks bro. What you mentioned about the 'fear of failure being a much greater motivator than the perception of success' really hits me deep down. I’ll do my best to follow in your footsteps and become as successful as you!

Had the bright idea of adding 4 systematic search patterns to battleship in lieu of the random search.. currently debugging the dumbest corner cases. If anyone has a good resource for structuring javascript, I would be grateful!

Okay honestly, i really love what you did, and I'm in the middle of choosing a path for myself but then Comapared to Javascript and Rails, Javascript have higher jobs offers but then ROR projects are the kind of projects i will love to build and those are the kind of ideas i have and also i have a degree in Physics Education and i am thinking once i complete TOP and have a better portfolio i can apply for a software engineer course as a master's degree but i don't if that is possible.

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As of right now I have 4-5 hours a day I can spare to studying, as great as it would be if I can finish this as soon as possible, I wonder how other people have chose to learn other topics on top of programming. I am trying to learn web app pen testing, do you think it is reasonable to attempt learning both programming and web hacking simultaneously? I was thinking of doing TOP every Monday - Wednesday - Friday, would it be wise to skip days between lessons?

Thank you for this video. I just started foundations two weeks ago. I'm in the dabble category because I'm not in a rush for a job but i think I'll stick with it none the less.

I'm a Odin project student. I initially chose javascript path. After learning React, i got my job as my first job as front end engineer. I wanted to be a. Full stack with MERN.But when i started Node, i didn't like it. My intuition was that it was never supposed to use in the server. Single threaded non blocking scripting language. So I've switched to rails path. So far I'm loving it. But jobs are less

Hey man, is the odin project good if my goal is freelancing ? I mean going my way and building a SaaS or building websites for small businesses.

What an incredibly useful video, thank you! I'm on the ruby path too :)

Awesome, bro. I just completed Foundations, and I'm grinding at 30+ hours/week, waiting anxiously for the Algorithms bit. You made me remember that the course said to not wait until the end to start applying. Thanks.

it is possible

Hey man, did you use ONLY the odin project or did other courses simultaneously while learning web dev and to land a role ?

I appreciate and respect the time and effort you took into making this video and keeping it real about the The Odin Project. I've been dabbling into learning to code and even as a beginner just learning how to print hello world, I know the path is intense but it's worth it and a good way to learn if this path is really cut out for me or not.

Hey Why did you stop creating videos?

What was your study schedule?

Damn this project is lit 🔥🔥. Awesome work bro. Keep up. I'm really inspired. I too have begun with the Odin Project

I can add or remove periods in a todo list to keep my graph green. 😂

btw did you stop after the rails course or you finished all the courses in the ROR path?

"Studying without Certainty" chapter on anxiety from not doing enough all the time was very relatable. I liked TOP, it's not 1:1 to working, but it was never intended to be, much like a CS degree is not 1:1 to working (Or any degree to work relationship). It's an entry into the field.

Great discussion. Thanks for sharing your insights.

Really appreciate this! I’m in tech but on the sales ops side, and I am finding myself at step one. I was a geologist before this and, I also think I’m taking the ruby path (also have some outdated experience in html/css back when I was making my MySpace “cool”) Thanks for the inspiration, will continue to follow your journey! Thank you

Get some sleep my friend. You look tired.

I am wondering, why was TOP website built with Ruby/Rails rather than Node/Express?

Thanks for this mister, great advice. When you say it maky tale a year and a half, are you referring to learning the material on top of a full time job and kids? The time it takes me to learn it isnt the issue, im already employed in IT.

Thanks a lot

Hey there :) thanks for your thoughts here. Just wanted your opinion here or advice rather. Tim Kim was able to put himself fully through his study program entirely as he wasnt working a full time job simultaneously. But is there a suggestion you have for those of us like myself who are trying to learn and can't do the same study hours because we have to work a full time job alteady to pay bills. Im a 38 yo woman studying with the goal in mind to land my first front end developer job in Sept 2025. I have set aside 2 x nights a week to study 2 hrs each of those weeknights and then I spend most of Sunday coding. So far in about 4 months ive been able to get a handle of HTML, CSS and Bootstrap but my situation wont allow me anymore study hours. Would you have any further advice for me? Do you think my goal is realistic?

Good content and good advice. Thank you,

thx`!!

Did you take typed/handwritten notes as you were going through The Odin Project? I’m a CS grad trying to transition to web dev and I was wondering if it would be worth my time (full time job right now), or if it’d be smarter to just use the projects as my “notes”. Thanks for the vid!

Although it is 20 minutes long, it is a very full video, thank you for the content. Probably because there are fewer engineers working on Ruby on Rails compared to other frameworks, they don't bother to ask many questions. But some companies rarely (at least in the country I live in) ask general and not very complex, knowledge-based questions about RoR and Ruby. Of course, the similarities with the questions on sites like Leetcode and Hackerrank are debatable.

Hi, Ben Are you still on RoR or some other technology?

What would you recommend for a beginner starting with Ruby on Rails? Based on your experience, is The Odin Project one of the top tutorials you've encountered?

I value your perspective. I started learning Ruby just a month ago. For me, the goal isn't so much to secure a job, but rather to develop my own startup projects. Ultimately, it's not the programming language that matters most, it's the problems it helps solve.

I think because of number developers is low and when you add specific language and stack it becomes even more showing of there is a lack developers in the world.

So he is more than a decade in tech, about 2012. As I hear from a lot of senior devs today’s requirements for juniors are much higher. To get first job much harder. So the only relevant thing I got out of it is to be consistent. And when an opportunity comes you are going to be ready to crash.

The trick for self taught devs is to be looking for work during a tech boom. All the other advice is basically useless without that tech boom.

Thank you very much for this content 🙃

I am currently working on a project that involves drag and drop, socket and other stuff not covered in odin. This will be my final project. It means that I will be skipping photo tagging and chat app because imo these projects are too common and photo tagging is pretty simplistic.

Why is there no audio?

Hey, thank you man that was a really inspiring story. I'm currently going through TOP Javascript section and then I want to do the React section, however and this is obviously a personal matter but I'm also working full time so it's tough. I have one leg out of my current job and one leg still in the office. I'm not sure what to do. Congrats on your success!

Thank you, this was a very realistic outlook on what to expect overall

Hi, I'm stuck trying to implement more than 3 consecutive operations, but I'll breakthrough eventually. Did this project help you at all during job interviews?

It is all right to just put one's feet in the water before deciding if one wants to go all in.

I join a fb odin project study group. It’s was 200s ppl at 2yrs ago. I would like said less than 10 ppl stay. And no one actually get a job yet. Job market is very hard now

Watched some of your videos and... You make good videos mannnn!! 👍

if it was about productivity, no one would have hired fresher, fresher are value for money that's why companies hire them 😅

Wordpress has already replaced many jobs years ago and things like Next js and Shadcn would replace more developers 😅

may I ask how did you find your choice of langauge (ruby) regarding relevance to nowadays industry ?

Some advice: look for Ruby jobs in your city to see how popular it is.