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fwiw I once went to Bali and it rained so much the street to my accommodation flooded, meaning I had to wade in knee high water filled with literal crap just to get into town or get back home

Thank you very much for these series.

I really appreciate your introspection and your points on the importance of marketing and sales as an indie hacker .

Really well done . Bravo .

I hate beaches, travel, and crowded planes.

I had the same realisation after being android developer for 2 years, not really understanding gradle, life changing. It made me actually realise that all new tech frameworks at the end of the day boil down to "programs" and "code" just different way of implementing it

For years I've had the lock file my project and finally bit to bullet to try and understand what it is. This video couldn't make it any clearer. Thank you so much!

Great video! This is what I was looking for.

I hated history geography and any non mathematical related courses.... until I finished university.

The way you explain is so SIMPLE.. easy to understand.. your new subscriber!! Cheers!!

Java + 25 years ! Now flutter... its about the same🎉

How much you are making with this?

microsoft killed java....and this is a good thing. a very very very good thing. All those years of java developers hating on MS stack guys. I guess we get the last laugh

This is an excuse you don’t need Bali to make successful projects or anything you just need to produce.

👏👏👏👏

Currently in bali! doing indie hacking , let me know if you are here!

That was great. Thanks.

"gradle build scripts are just code, and you know code", this is the best thing to hear

🌟 Thank you for sharing your journey and insights into the world of indie hacking! 💻🚀 Your experience in Bali and your exploration of indie hacker tools and mindset are truly inspiring. 🌴🤖 I appreciate the honesty in navigating distractions and staying focused on creating valuable software. 🙌 Keep up the great work of sharing valuable knowledge and experiences with the community! 🎉 🌟 What future topics or themes do you plan to explore in your upcoming videos regarding indie hacking and software development? 📈 Are there any special plans to delve deeper into specific tools, strategies, or success stories within the indie hacking community? 🤔 Excited to see the quality content you'll continue to bring to viewers interested in this space! 💡🌐

What does indie hacking mean? Is it whitehack hacking?

Indie hacking greatly appeals to me due to the freedom of location it offers. While I don't necessarily want to work from Bali, I'm tired of feeling shackled to the big cities in the UK for the sake of earning a substantial income. I would much prefer the tranquility of a sleepy village in the countryside over the hustle and bustle of London any day of the week. That said, I currently don't know much about indie hacking, so hopefully this rabbit hole doesn't lead to spending thousands on courses and resources, or getting indoctrinated into some influencer's cult. It would be nice to know there's a way out!!

I hope the next video is from Bali 😃

Thanks for the video. This is what I was searching for

Hey I cannot find build.gradle file in my gradle version 8.8

Welcome to the JavaScript family

please, say "bottle of water " :d , is he british ?:d

Can you please share your setup details please Thanks

Get started with Gradle by building a real Java project the right way with my FREE Quick-Start Guide 👉 tomgregory.com/gradlequickstart

Title should be "5 Scary Truths about the Solo Digital Nomad Life". We live on the road and work remotely and none of this relates to our Digital Nomad lifestyle.

Simple, concise and well explained. You definitely changed my view on Gradle, thank you!

Hello, I'm Brazilian and I'm looking for content to study in JAVA, I'm just starting out and from your video, I understood a little about what you meant, should I continue with my studies in JAVA or look for new paths too?

Good luck in your new plans. I've been using Java for so many use cases now. Web apps (Micronaut+HTMX/JStachio), CLIs (Micronaut/PicoCLI + native), Massive data loading, AWS Lambda (60ms cold startup), Cyber security analysis (STIX) with graph dbs (CYPHER), wrapping C libs with the new FFM api. Matrix processing with the new Vector API (AVX2/AVX512) which is going to be HUGE in AI/ML (NO external libs). Running Python inside Java with Truffle. Yeah that last one is mad ;) I started out with 6502 assembler, BASIC, COBOL, Pascal, RPG, C, C++, Python etc. Being able to run the same Java app (unchanged) on an IBM mainframe, midrange (AS/400) and on a PC was great for me. Now being able to natively compile (GraalVM) and get insane speeds (1BRC), is just icing.

I enjoy coding at a day job but would prefer 100% freedom for my schedule. I have been freelancing, and now building products with small teams on the side. When I can make enough from what I am building, I want to spend all my time on projects I influence heavily and where I benefit from profits.

These will help me to move out of my job and work on something I always planned. Thanks for the genuine lessons and of course your tutorials.

are you planning to create a course?

This is how it is implemented in tech companies. thank you!

Thanks to sharing your experience

Thank you for your valuable insider knowledge! “The knowledge in your head is probably worth more than you think.” I have to say, it hit me hard. I suppose it's finally time to read through your Gradle bible.

Nice🔥

Hello first of all thanks for video. Can you revisit this topic using Groovy @CompileStatic

Oh my gosh why the drums

Been recently following your video - really took lot of things from this video. very useful. When I started out, I cant build a software of my own, run on internet with server, don't have much tooling available. Working in a company makes lot of sense. Now we can do all of tat ourselves. But I haven't built any product, why? I got into the comfort of monthly payment. It certainly rewires my brain. I don't have to quit. But at least I can build products and fail .fail again and build again. iterate and grow!! It Enlighted me! Thanks Tom! Wishing you good luck with your product.

nice one thanks

Kindly assist me, i am using cordova and i get this error; BUILD FAILED in 2s Command failed with exit code 1: C:\Users\USER\GWLAPP2\platforms\android\tools\gradlew.bat cdvBuildDebug how do i resolve it?

liked the video :) Looking forward to updates :) Also do you have any tips on how to find your dev idea ? Im thinking doing few small ones till finding success with one & expanding it

Yikes... Okay, here's the thing... coding is a huge part of creating a product... but it has NOTHING to do with making a product SUCCESSFUL. To make a successful product AT MINIMUM you need good marketing. This means having capital to afford advertising (both creation and distribution of the ads). I was once equally naïve to this, and I though "If I build it, they will come" but that 100% isn't how the world works even remotely. How the world works is: a person like bill gates buys the rights to use your operating system for almost nothing, or they just outright steal it. Smart people that are creatives that have the ability to make ANYTHING, are not the ones that actually make money. What will happen is FAR BEFORE you are profitable (1-2 years on average, if you're lucky) if you actually have something good, someone else who is an established name that has a marketing budget is going to rip you off, and there isn't going to be anything at all you can do about it. Remember Minecraft and how that sold for billions? Guess who STOLE IT OUTRIGHT - idea, textures, and all... Ever hear of "infiniminer"? No, because they quit after people kept stealing the source code and making their own clones of the game. When notch first made a video on youtube about 'cave game' (as it was first called) he said in the description that it was an infiniminer clone... and history is LITTERED with such cases... it is not the exception, but the rule. Here's a video on the subject that puts it better than I can: czcams.com/video/Fyb7vj4LGXk/video.html So what do you do? Well, be uncreative and be a business man... get investors, hire talent, and THEN steal existing ideas and compete with competitors for their customers... that's how the world works, and it's a terrible truth. To say to anyone that has a job: Just give up and make your own thing... you're setting them up for failure if they can't financially afford to do that... and if you can afford to do that financially---- you didn't need the job you're working to begin with... just the act of owning property pays way more than what you could make selling your hourly rate... in short: yikes...

hell NO. slacker all the way. definitely C++ since before 2005. what it's all about is NO job would be able to pay me to do what i do - you gotta have a "side hustle" (OR WHATEVER SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MONEY)

The only thing i am concerned about: TypeScript. Oh boy. Still wish you the best... Do your thing and you will suceed

The REAL Reason I Quit Coding Jobs Forever = Indie hacking. Great job! Would love to get there too, but I'm currently still in my early stages, trying to get my first job.

Tom, this is exactly the same that I am going right now! The main reason (the same!) no say in that products we made. Some people just don't want to keep up the times. I think you future will be a lot better very soon.