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How You Can Start a 5 Figure Side Business as Software Engineer

How You Can Start a 5 Figure Side Business as Software Engineer

I’ve started too many failed businesses to count. * First there was the diary app that never got past 1 user. * Then the startup for real estate transactions that I worked on for 3 years only to get an investor offer of 10k. 😿 * Next was a real-time CSS tool which

Getting Started With The Best Engineering Side Hustle: Teaching

Getting Started With The Best Engineering Side Hustle: Teaching

Many people dream about earning money outside their day job. Lucky for you, as a software engineer, you have tons of opportunities to create a lucrative side hustle. The reason is simple: the demand for software (and software education) has never been higher. This leads to many opportunities, but you

Coders and No-Code: Why Software Engineers Should Learn No-Code Tools

Coders and No-Code: Why Software Engineers Should Learn No-Code Tools

The demand for custom software in the world is insatiable. Tech companies create value with their software products, but the demand is far broader than the tech industry: software is eating the world across law, real estate, and much more. Writing code is one way to build custom software (and

I Made $9K from my YouTube Channel in 2022 and it's Powering my Company

I Made $9K from my YouTube Channel in 2022 and it's Powering my Company

In the spirit of transparency, I'm sharing some stats around my medium sized YouTube channel and how it helped me start a semi-successful business. In my opinion, this pattern of YouTubers using their distribution to build companies will become increasingly common, so I hope this is a helpful

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5 Junior Software Engineer Learning Traps

Something I deeply believe in and have shared several times with Taro's community of 15,000+ software engineers is that time is the only resource that truly matters. In today’s extremely chaotic landscape, the world is filled to the brim with distractions and ineffective time sinks. Unfortunately,