In case you haven't realized, you have 3 currencies.
- knowledge 🧠
- time 🕜
- money 💰
Whichever you need you can use the other 2 to get it.
🧠 + 🕜 = 💰
🕜 + 💰 = 🧠
🧠 + 💰 = 🕜
Be careful to use all of them for 100% because you will lose one of them.
One of the things that will contribute to your success is choosing a tech stack that you are comfortable with and sticking to it, then keep shipping new apps every month
My tech stack is:
- Go + MySQL
- ReactJS
- TailwindCSS + DaisyUI
- Github Repo + Actions
- Any VM provider
Perfect is the enemy of Good.
One of things that kept holding me back is the developer mentality, you can create something good that people use, or just keep looking for ( or building ) perfect apps that nobody knows about!
Interesting Telegram operating details in this interview with founder Pavel Durov:
— ~1 billion users
— Never ran an ad
— Only 30 full-time employees
— He’s the sole director, equity holder and product manager (works directly with every engineer and designer)
— No HR (he recruits people through www.contest dot com, a contest platform that pays cash prizes to solve engineering challenges; people that win a lot are considered “the best of the best of the best” and may get an offer to work with Telegram)
That’s one lean operation (a relevant comparison: WhatsApp had 55 employees and 450m users when it sold to Facebook for $19B in 2014).