How to get rich as a solo software developer - The Ultimate Guide
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2023
- When you learn how to code, you unlock the ability to build side-businesses that have the potential to make you rich. The 6-step guide provides realistic tips and tricks for launching a solo company as a software engineer.
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Very cool. Looking forward to the FKIT course. One thing I'm discovering is potentially a weakness of using Firebase is that it seems you can't stream from OpenAI's API down to the client. Unless I'm mistaken, and I hope I am. Hopefully this is something you'll cover in the FKIT course.
That would be funny if you had a weekend life :D
do it in rust now
I'm excited to see how it goes!
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That Quentin Tarantino story is just the best. Man really created his own luck 😂😂
imagine if he said he didn't like the way the scene looks so they have to retake it.
bro is my role model ngl
It should have been me, not him
He gets to say tbe N word and see people's feet anytime in his movies. Living the dream.
@@widepootishe is really gross and looks hideous
THE ENDING WAS GOLDEN, “That’s how you market a side hustle in a video about side hustles” 😂
ONG 😂😂
It actually is gold, and smart :D
Hahaha the best ending!
That's called a happy ending
Just like when he did the Web3 video talking about Crypto being a scam and then selling a crypto course. Man really went out there and said that the sparkle for anything is timing.
Thank you for making the animation with me, it was awesome to work with you! : )
@@ElectrostatiCrow Oh God, I'm gonna proomt
@@AbubakirGadirov prompt like a pro
Finally you can proomt superman to be at your school
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Wooohooi daxflame is here, now we need Joel's presence
I love the fact , fail often but remember to Fail forward , what a line
Sounds good, but wtf that means? Lol. How do I fail forward, does someone can find a practical example?
@@Selenium117 means that if you fail, it's fine as long as you use it as a learning opportunity to move you "forward"
You can't faceplant without it. ;/
@@Selenium117 It means you learn from your mistakes which gives you a better chance of success upon the next attempt. For example, if you built a Facebook clone and it doesn't gain any traction and thus fails, your mistake was remaking an already established, well known product which could have been avoided if you did your market eesearch first. Next time you will know before building a product you need to research your competition first. This is both fail forward and fail fast because now you will not waste time building a product that's already well established.
in life you will stumble, best to stumble upwards and forward @se
This video reminds me of saying
1. Think Big
2. Act Small
3. Deliver Quickly
4. Measure it (user's feedback)
5. Change Quickly
also, the really money is not in "solo side scams". no the real money is selling a side business on youtube (side up now)
That sound like Cyberpunk 2077, they said it will be the best game even (think Big), the game was created like a normal game (act small), they delivered it with buggs (deliver quickly), the feedback was horrible (user feedback) and then they promise fixes and add-on (Quick fixe)
But it's not the way to make a good app, it's just a way to make money, wich is the title of this video 😂
@@greg8909 its an american saying, fake til you make it
I am a product manager, and this is what we do, exactly as you said. I have learnt this but the problem is someone else is building it. So I am learning to code now, so I can build my own product one day.
@@ritikthakur2891 im a coder, and you are definitely on the right track learning something first and figuring out if or how it is useful decades later. also don't have deadlines, deadlines ruin the whole infinity thing we got going on here.
You actually showed the entire stack and how you got to that point. Love that
I spent a few years trying to do that and it's much harder than it sounds, I'm very good at producing high quality code but I'm not creative whatsoever so generating business ideas and trying to execute on them was extremely frustrating and I wasn't able to ship any project in 4 years. It made me miserable so I decided to stop and made my peace with the fact that this is not for me. I'm so much happier now coding projects for others while making good money instead of failing over and over and over again on something I'm not good at because it's "cool" to be a solopreneur.
Awesome to see another fellow uncreative coder. I have also made my peace with my lack of creativity. I just focus on getting the job done.
@@d3f3kt57 I think this "solopreneur" thing is a pipe dream. Insanely few people are capable of doing it but the idea is easy to sell. You need to find the right idea for the right market at the right time, create the right product, market it the right way to the right audience, price it correctly, and develop it while having a full time job. It's just not for me.
you were thinking that the idea need to be pretty good, almost every succesfull project just were software that give the solution to some things people faced or wanted to solve, but specially people with money, like the corpo photos, like you can achieve something good if you put your automation process in the corpo line, well that is basically what ibm, google and amazon were doing lately, but if you focuses too much on landing something that people does not need or not want you will end up crashing projects becausethere is no market to fulfill, or a new one to create, i just were thinking on developing something to control robots with an ai inthe center of the house, then jeff just drop a video of a compan already doing that XD and they were conecting a principal computer to an AI and then bywifi and bluetooth control hardware likerobots, to not let the robots carry their own computers and be only like remote control inside the house XD, i wanted to do that and then i found it already were people working on it, i have not think in that again, but jeff just give me the idea of first do things that work correctly, then aim for the idea, i have not practiced enough to be good enough in software so i can not put the hands on project of my own, because i were searching the "perfect stack" to start, and jeff just throw that "you only need it to function", and that hit me hard, because is something that jeff says a lot of times, and i were not watching it, so i just started to learn python and lua, and then i will move to other places, after that then i will do other things, i will not to try to learn js, react, html, css, c, nim, lua and python at the same time XD
Instead of reinventing the wheel, you can enhance existing SAAS/apps by incorporating features requested by their own clients, which they failed to deliver. By doing so, you become a red ocean fisher, seeking opportunities in competitive markets, rather than a blue ocean explorer in uncharted territories.
@@GinaGen I think you would have way more success by turning this "easy on the surface" idea into a course, selling it for $999 instead of $2500 just today, and marketing it to naive and desperate developers looking for the easy way out of their 9-5.
Jeff, you are an inspiration. Thank you for existing and providing quality content for the community.
i'm listening to a youtuber talk about picking mysql and getting free tokens and i am wondering to myself, what is this? then i look and see a 2.2 million sub count... and its a "side business selling side businesses"
Respect to this man for actually doing every project he jokes about
Firebase is truly amazing to build side hustles projects which actually gets shipped.
Thanks for sharing your development process, really inspiring.
amazing ....
a lot of fake amazings out there, so its really nice to get a true one.
also, if this youtuber firebase is so successful, why does he need to sell a businesses selling businesses? but i got to respect any "programmer" that ships.
@@ginxxxxx that's a side hustle by itself... look how many views it generates. THIS is a printing money - not that side hustle
@@theobserver_ yea, i dont know what firebase i was or if it actually shipped. i was just agreeing with nikh that i respect shipping. all youtubers are scammers, or scummers, whatever.
@@ginxxxxxBecause the actual side hustle (aka the whole point of this youtube channel so more like his actual job) is selling "get rich quick" schemes to desperate people on the internet. Fucking nobody is actually using his voice app.
Love the big shoutout to Svelte. The only web framework that I personally use with absolute love.
This is the way you share and sell content. Love you dude!
Holy sh*t. This is exactly the video I needed.
I'm also on a similar path right now - Fullstack Engineer currently building a site/small platform. I think a lot of us get caught up in the building tons of sh*tty little projects (story of my life up until this point) that either don't function properly, have no purpose, or we never validate them until its too late. This video definitely makes some very good points like getting your idea validated early and understanding that while luck plays a large part, you can create some of your own luck through consistent hard work. Love it!!
Thanks for sharing 💯🔥
actually if you want to get rich your focus shouldnt be on building something useful, or even something that works correctly.
or even something you like.
your focus should be on building something POPULAR(which is usually sht, but it gets money).
you need to be rapacious and shameless.
@@sabin97 Ohh I see, so you've built and launched tons of successful software products yourself?
@@nadotornado
of course not.
i'm neither rapacious nor shameless.
The thing is as a solo dev, you don't need to be wildly successful. You don't need millions of customers paying you thousands. You just need thousands to pay you tens.
Odds are if you find value in your own project, there are probably a few thousand out there that also do.
@@blackjackjester the things people tend to find "valuable" are usually crap.
look up "merda d'artista".
literally sht in a can.
Sounds a little bit like my own solopreneur experience... :) Having to work on all desktop platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux) everyday I realized that all cross-platform file managers suck and they do not really make me productive... So I asked myself how difficult would it be to create a file manager which suck a little bit less and I started... I created HiFile which may have a motto "a file manager which sucks a bit less" :) And for those who try to google it, yeah, it is nothing revolutionary new, just oldschool "total commander" style manager with some hopefully clever and handy solutions which make my own work faster. And no, it is not yet finished, it still needs some polishing... And most importantly it already made me some 200 bucks :)
They suck because file systems is a confusing clusterfuck even within a single platform, let alone in a multiplatform context. I've had a similar issue by trying to write some sort of a limited subset wrapper over nodejs "fs" module and quickly found out there are quadrillion of gotchas when trying to abstract calls like that and it's easier to just write specific fs procedures within the modules which need them using "fs" modules. The generic solution is pretty hard to do without requiring to pass callbacks and at that point the wrapper has the same problems the original function had.
@@ra2enjoyer708 yeah have you ever tried to go over a file system then encountered a sym link and it fucks your whole code up 😂😭
Thanks for the 💡 idea I’m about to code this non stop for a week
The import lesson is at 8:20 though. You are suppose to use someone else's filemanager and then sell it as a services with steep markup!
@@dandogamer Symlinks almost destroyed my sanity before I found `sudo ln -s /path/to/foo /path/to/bar/` and it saved me, Python PATH bindings especially oh LaWD. We had to move everything to Python3 when Python2 was deprecated and that was honestly the most stressed I've ever been in my entire life. Also, don't get me started on how broken Ansible is... :|
Man, this was an amazing video! You are creating your own luck with all of the marketing, design and communication skills you have! Bravo! 🔥
Made me want to jump straight back into my 1 year in the making app with no users, thank you ❤
Just jump ...if you need motivation then you don't really need it
Watching you change your entire youtube strategy has been the best thing about AI so far. I bet you were stressed for a bit but this is gonna work out better
Your videos are so pleasing to the eye, all of them have original ideas with exceptional execution too. Great work.
One of the best dev YT videos I watched ever. Incredible work bringing people up to speed. Simple and to the point.
Had been tried to work on some projects but ended up doing nothing... Salute to the solodev who can develop the product alone and even monetize it
dude. your videos are so awesome. and your content is great! making it fun to watch and stay on them. i cant imagine how much time you put into it!
I swear you are a god of entertainment while giving really usefull tips, glad I found your channel
I took a year break from tech after being demoralised failing a bootcamp from lack of organization and sustained effort and slowly making my way back and gotta say I miss your nonchalant backhanded humour.
Coming back to another attempt with ya makes it fun. Thank you
Danny Postma first created a AI stock image platform and later created Headshot pro, which got instantly successful. To most people it will look he created a successful product form get go but it's all about trying bunch of different things and see what succeeds.
Fireship thanks for being honest dude really love your video making style.
Jesus Christ this is amazing. One of the best developer online business “tutorials” I’ve ever seen. Great video again Fireship, equally informative and lightheartedly sarcastic. You deserve millions just for making these videos 😂
When did "Jesus Christ" become an interjection
@@dudegfa5673 Approximately 2000 years ago?
I loved the part about taking out the wrong idea behind the barn! So true!
I'm glad I could contribute to this video! I'll be using this app for all of my future memes!! 🙌
I don’t think you’re giving yourself enough credit. This, my friends, is how you market a side hustle about a side hustle within a video about side hustles. 💪🏽
I love you man, you’re the ultimate hero we need but don’t deserve! 🔥
Wasn't expecting Fireship and Daxflame to collab but definetely welcome
your videos are incredibly funny and insightful. keep it going
As someone who has started like 4 projects but never finishes them, this gives me energy
Energy to finish them, or to start a new one? 😂
You’ll only understand when you have 4 finished projects, and 20 abandoned projects.
Fireship you gotta admit your voice is super chill and always welcome to listen
extremely valuable advice and amazing sense of humor. best channel on youtube. Thank you
I like how a video about your application is probably making you more money then the application itself :D
That's an interesting stack. It's also really close to something I'm working on so I'm keen to sign up for that course that you're hoping will be ready in June. Particularly the tokens part. And the "not using AWS" part.
I'm literally doing the same thing w/ expo/amplify/revenue cat ... whew, you confirmed all my steps ... good vid!
This is cool Jeff! Seeing oppurtunity when in an stealing issue is awesome!
There are some truly great voice actors, like Tony Jay, that I wish some AI company had the rights to mimic, even if it's limited only to use by major production companies (Disney, Blizzard Entertainment, etc.). The man knew how to voice a villain
Abridged version:
1) Get a good idea
2) Implement it because as a solo software developer, you already know how.
Notes: even if you're not a software developer, you can pay someone for step 2) as long as you do something else that gets money. Step 1) is the only important one.
One of the best videos over posted on Fireship 🔥🔥🔥
The true wealth was the friends we made along the way
Fuck that shit. I want money.
Amit Agrawal as a 1 man operation: 💀
wait, this is an ad
bro u really made this magnificent video just to promote your voice...
(and after watching the full video, I came to know that that was the exact plan)
Your editing is amazing, man!
I am really glad to see the JabaScript community moving forward..."server side rendering", background tasks and whatnot...few more years and it will be almost where PHP / JS "stack" was almost 10 years ago.
Glory days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah but with all the reusability and app-like interactions that reactive frameworks provides instead of the coupled spaghetti code we use to make with php back in the day
I know php evolved too tho
@@HenriqueOliveira-hy7ke I tend to agree here, unfortuantely. This is one of the biggest problems in the PHP community tho, thru my 15 years caeer I saw some great code, but most of it wasn't. It's not that PHP stops you in any way to write good, resuable code, but somehow we ended with so much bad articles, "books" and whatnot, that for beginner is literally hard to find some good learning resource on the topic. The other prominent examples is that utter crap called WordPress - it's the pure definition of spaghetti code, I simply hate it.
I guess that's the case with any language/code, just in PHP is way easier to start doing things the wrong way. Anyway, I still love it, recent years was good in terms of language development and with all the things going on with the PHP foundation.
Also, I prefer 1000 times to write PHP server-side code than JavaScript one.
@@nask0 Do you have any pointer to which CMS system like wordpress that you like the code for?
@@cyberneticbutterfly8506 I use my own from several years now, but general purpose CMS''s - no, don't have insights.
In terms of frameworks, I prefer simplicity, for example I really like the Phalcon framework.
Awesome video, very energizing! One problem with products that can be built so easily by composing them from other third-party services is that there is really low barrier to entry and replicate your app. You have to work on locking licensing deals with celebrities as that's something that cannot be replicated so easily. Again, cool video and good luck!
My daily dose of entertainment, bruh sometimes I finish work thinking that yaah lets open up youtube to see something unrelated to my "work", but here you are giving superbe entertainment with amazing value for the minute, ty very much sir
„The F-Kit Stack“ 🤣
I must pause every 10 seconds on that video. This guy is not (only) a webtech-geek. He is a machine-gun-style rapping comedian.
Sometimes the simplest idea is the best idea. I've been trying to think about something to build but I'm bad at coding and bad at business (also broke). One day a good idea within my skills might find me 😊.
a trained monkey can code.
you wanna learn how to program.
"And that my friends is how you market a side hustle within a video about side hustles!" 🙌🏻
Happy to see more and more Svelte!!
I use Firebase and React native for all my personal apps. It's awesome 💯
In my opinion, the best side hustle is to go on a travel outside of the country because it will give you ideas that are unique and nobody has been noticed that
coc
except for literally everyone living in the country you are visiting
"Or build some kind of freak show in kubernetes"
Personally feeling attacked by this, I have not laughed this hard in a minute. Keep up the great videos!
Seen like 50 of these sorts of videos. But that is the first that is actually useful.
Man I wish my teachers explained about topics how you explained *making your own luck* , freakin genius.
the actual "hard work" is all about marketing, you can even sell rocks if you have a good marketing
Best video to date. More solo dev side hustling .
Dude you had me in stitches 🤣 Awesome content to the right level of detail too!!
This is me. I built 5 apps already. My 6th app surpassed all previous 5 just 2 weeks after launch. Not giving up is also a good zeal
Hi! How's that going today?
I'm looking for something that I can collaborate for free.
I've only spent 4 years creating my MVP - failing slow! The best part - it doesn't use any AI. It's a unique idea with a beautiful UI/UX and something people probably won't be able to live without once it's released very soon. React Native + Firebase (Firestore / Geofire, Remote Config & Cloud Functions).
Thanks for showing us real progress 😊
Thank you so much for this Jeff!
Nice way of promoting your own side-hustle by also bringing value to the community. Kudos
I'm currently developing a Ai-assisted writing app, this video was surprisingly useful
you and a billion other people
@@YuriG03042 I would love to see them try lmao
@Fireship Could you share more about your marine data as a service product for sailors? I love seeing DaaS projects!
I've been building a game for 7 years and nobody has played it except me. Your opening hit hard.
I believe that someone with an amazing, iconic voice could make bank selling rights to their voice. This must be accompanied with some sort of trackable validation though, so that those who are ethically inclined can choose to not support "illegal" use of someone else's voice.
Great video. I'm still rather new to coding(almost 2 months in), but I see the potential to create useful things if the right steps are taken.
give 5 or 6 years… youve got a long way to go before youre marketable (typically - who knows maybe youre a wiz)
@@mrmaniac9905 Naha that's a lot of time, 1 or 2 years for self taught
@@mrmaniac9905 Is this the time it takes for an average person to become truly skilled in coding? I'm also rather new, 3 months in and doing an A.S in programming at my local community college, and it can be kinda discouraging seeing people talk about what they're building or making online.
@@noelchristie7669 No, I started when I was 12, I was coding my own game engine by the age of 17. Its just a matter of discipline, drive, and quiet frankly your aptitude for coding in general.
@@pablom2274 I’m self taught, I’m just 12 years down the line. Maybe all you need is 1-2 years - who knows, I was only like 14 at that time and still coding the basics. around the 5 year mark I started coding advanced projects on my own like a custom game engine, my own language compiler, netflix clone and others
This channel is pure gold.
ive built a lot of apps in the past 5 years (mostly shopify) it's indeed just a matter of finding a shortcoming, or offering value / saving time. My apps have done great, but we all sometimes put 100s of hours in one project which we think will be the next big thing, which does not get any traction at all ;-(
please don't sue me, i'm a big fan😂
Better delete your channel bruh, before Jeff gets you.
Lol 😂
Should've at least asked though.
This class was so majestic on how to sell that even Pencil Dicaprio would be left speechless!
Your humor is amazing dude. That Tarantino story made me laugh like an old man😂😂😂
0:39 literally me in the exact same scene!
Damn bro, the word is changing around us, the FOMO is so real.
I actually keep refreshing your channel to see if you uploaded a new video every 12 hours in case I missed the notification somehow.
I love how you aggregate info from the tech world and distill it down for us in a short video, all while staying true to yourself without any b***sh*t content.
Even though your channel is directed at developers, I think almost everyone in the world would benefit from watching your videos, and as such I would love seeing another channel by you, directed at the average UA-cam consumer, with little to no background in tech, easing them into the tech world.
My friends, the future is upon us, and the things we saw in sci-fi movies as children are slowly becoming a reality, and while most people don't actually care or are even aware of the happenings and subtitles of these changes, everyone will have to adapt at one point or another.
the 196,632 people who watched this video at the time of writing this comment are definitely ahead when it comes to the information race we humans as a species are collectively participants in. salute combadres.
chill bro, the overhype is too much.
@@sorvex9 You might be replying to a ChatGPT generated comment lmao
@@justasmr757 this made me lmao
I was looking for an excuse to buy a lifetime subscription and that 35% discount done did it. You got yourself a new Lifer! 🔥🔥🔥
Your videos never disappoint 👏👏
Next step: As soon you build a app that's good enough, you then sell courses on how to do the same. That's how you get rich :)
Holy shit the Tarantino part had me dying. Holy fuck
Tarantino story is such a great story to remember when you wanted to prove a point of making your own luck
Looking forward to that new class so I can really learn to FKIT 👍
I don't know if this is a terrible plan, but I focus on building what I need... then I just hope that other people will want it too. That way I am not wasting my time because I am solving MY problem... and since I am human, I am probably solving other people's problems too.
Honestly, same. So far so good 😂
Exactly this. This is the passion that every software developer needs to hold on to.
I actually think the biggest reason why a lot of people are against using firebase tools, is because the functions take you out of the free plan.
when a developer builds his first start-up he doesn't want to pay any money at the start, until he realizes if it's a fail or not.
that's why a lot people are going to Vercel, AWS and more, that's why Heroku was so famous until the recent updates.
a long time ago, I created a SaSS platform which was build on top of firebase, and after the realization of function costing money, we just moved out.
someone needs to talk to the team behind firebase, and let them know that including some functions capabilities in the free plan will greatly increase customers...
But you still get 2 mil invocations for free.
@@TheTuxtrons yeah, but you still out of the pree plan.
so let's say you use cloud storage, in the free plan you get 5GB for free, but when you out of the free plan you pay for each GB so that sucks
@@TheIpicon why would they want more customers that dont pay ?
@@HiD3f because they plan on you being dependable on them once you get enough traffic and do actually pay, that’s why every other service give a lot more for free even tho they “lose” money on it
This video can't get liked enough. Brilliant!
I can't get tired of the clips you use to illustrate what you are saying 7:22 🔥
"Before you get two balls deep into an idea, it's a good idea to _validate_ the idea." ~Jeff 'the CHAD' Delaney
I cant believe i just gave a like to a 8:51 mins ad
Damn. CodeDamn got a Shoutout from Fireship. That video was a really good one.
Brilliant! Not only did you nail the marketing for your app, it's also the most honest and real "how to build a side hustle" video I've ever seen.
I am finishing my Bachelor's degree and currently work as a highly underpaid full stack dev at some company. I mostly accepted their offer because I am still in my final year of remote uni. But maybe I should change my thinking and instead of constantly be looking for better opportunities, just say "FKIT" and build the opportunities myself.
Same situation. I plan to start my own project soon while I keep working for the company
I am also same but without a job. It can get worse lol
I also study and have a low-paying side hustle TA in programming. However, we cover JS, React, firebase, so that's cool. Although we did a group project when I took the course as a student, I'm now practicing my skills on a little personal project, but with react and Redux toolkit which is definitely more verbose that what the video shows with Svelte.
I have just put my foot into the programming/nerd rabbit hole for about a week so i have no idea what you're talking about but hope i can understand the video soon
I am actually trying to build my own business but I am stuck at idea validation. Could you make a detail video on idea validation before actually jump into making the application?
3:52 bro don't do me like that. Gets me every time.
I was going to check my discord later until I saw this comment.....
@@cantpickausername I've learned to always go back 5 seconds and let the part where I've heard the sound play again and see if it repeats :D
That tarantino one was funny af
The coding themed sir mixalot parody rap at 2:30 was sheer brilliance and damn near killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can't believe I'm adding an ad to my favorites