Should I Quit iOS Freelancing? 🤔
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
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As always, love your videos! As someone trying to figure out what route to take (freelance & indie vs. working for a company) this was a super helpful video!
Inspiring as always!
Dude is such an inspiration
Thank you Aivars for this input!
Super! Motivējoši!
i love your vlog qualitiy, well put together, very helpful video, do you increase your hourly rate or per project rate as you grow in experience with freelancing ?
Nice to hear Ukrainian song on the street and to see flags on Riga's streets! Thanks to Latvia and Baltic countries for supporting Ukraine :)
Thank you for fighting for all of us!
Good video, huge recording and post production work, as always 🎉 I think it is better to have several apps in different niches with stable income before quit from main job, because if you have one big app then risk is rising if something goes wrong.
Thanks! I have fun making those videos.
Yep, one big app is even bigger risk than one job. A few smaller apps for sure is safer bet. I'm working on that now.
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Thanks for watching!
Thank you for your video an I like your content since it’s my ambition. I am really frustrated to transition to freelancing after 3 years failing to l land my first project in different platforms especially upwork, I just try to build my profile at the beginning at any cost to build trust to the clients. What is your advise to get to freelancing as an iOS + golang backend
Also man, your audio is so damn clean, even with the wind on the beach! Very good work! How do you make that happen without the wind noise?
ECM-B10 audio interface and a bit of processing in Final Cut Pro did the trick
Aivars, how did you start freelancing? Did you use a platform like Upwork or similar? Do you recommend starting with these platforms or do you recommend something else?
PD: love your content!!!
Oh wow! I didn't know your indie apps made that much! That's awesome!! I think it depends on what kind of lifestyle you want. You could always keep a single freelance project that's half or a quarter of the hours that you're doing now, and do indie the rest of the time?
Well, that's about $/h it is not necessary "that much", but I could survive from that revenue.
Life advice backed by experience - rare beast. Thanks!
There is clear benefit from being old - you have plenty of experience :)
@@AivarsMeijers You do not look old. You do not sound old. You do not think old.
@@jan.kowalski I do not feel old, but I have 47 years of life experience :)
you are doing it the right way
Interesting question. I think of it like rock climbing: you want to move smoothly from one point of stability to another, so if you have a sufficient reserve to get you through lean times (3-6 months of essential expenses in savings or some liquid investment), you can try out the next position. Good luck, whatever you decide.
That is very good analogy. I did some rock climbing back in the school. Our instructor told to always have a 3 support points, two is already risky.
Freelance + Indie apps + Content creating feels like safe position :)
@@AivarsMeijers You will not reach a high level with 3-point climbing, tho. Nobody does it today :) Except for free soloing, maybe.
@@leoingson I was a kid when was learning to climb. Safety, for sure, was the top priority for the instructor. Switching to 2-point climbing to get on higher level makes it even better analogy ;)
Great vid and great question at the end. I wouldn’t know what to do either. It’s hard to make that step. Since you did it once, I guess you are going to do it again. Maybe keep some freelance projects so you can have the social interaction with colleagues from time to time. Indie would be very solo, right?
Yep, indie would be solo work only and smaller projects. In freelance I'm working together with other developers and projects are much bigger.
Eventually I will drop freelance or at least will cut down freelance hours, don't know yet when.
Aijvars freelancing is hard, but the most rewarding!
Maybe experiment a bit? I'd try to cut down on daily freelance ratio - keep structure, more fun + potential revenue. If not possible, drop freelancing for a month (end of project, "holidays"), do full indie hacking, and check how that works out.
cool
wait are you in riga??? had no idea! wanted to visit it sometime this year.. great tips
I moved out from Riga to smaller city. Crossed it in my way to Estonia in this trip.
Great video. I like the smooth approach. Maybe for somebody who is 18, 20, 22 years old quitting job, you they have any at that age :D, and going full in soloprenourship is better but for the wast majority your approach is sane one.
In my 20s I would jump into full time indie as soon as I see my revenue is enough to survive on ramen 🍜
With family and kids ramen profitability is not an option 😅
@@AivarsMeijers "With family and kids ramen profitability is not an option"
true :D
This is so nice advice senior
you are my idol. last idol was Steve Jobs lol, as I run the company doing $275k a month with just one app I think I would be better off if I go Indi. Can you please tell me which database u use for your apps? Thank you
With $275k in a month I would not even think about freelancing, but guess it is hard to get there working as indie only part time 🤔
I'm building my Apps offline first and so far trying to avoid any backend development. For my Apps CloudKit is enough.
Where do you find these freelance gigs? Places like Upstart and such are horrible bc there are folks there from countries with very low wages that drive the bid down. Is there another path for getting freelance jobs without all the cutthroat bullshit?
I have a video about that: czcams.com/video/81oK3AEwdYo/video.html
Which lens are you using? 16-35 PZ?
I just got 16-35 GM.
PZ looks nice and is much lighter, but I wanted to have that f2.8 for background blur and low light cases.
Once you started building iOS projects, after how many days or projects you started using complex things like Combine,MapKit etc in your projects, Or you started only with basic things in first 2-3 years. A newbie if jump directly using Combine will surly get heart attacks and will be demotivated
My app was quite basic for a few first years.
Even now, even if I learned hoe to use Combine for a few projects where it was great help, I'm keeping my projects quite simple to be easy to maintain.
There were periods when I do not touch my Apps for 6+ months and I really prefer to see simple switch or even nested of to complex logic when coming back to the project and trying to understand logic.
Customers do not care about fancy tech in the app, better to invest in good looking and functional UI.
@@AivarsMeijers I think it would nice if you can share how much complex things are actually required to learn to build good apps. Else people will think if you can't master things like Combine then you can't be a successful iOS apps. Even I'm not sure what makes a successful iOS developer
@@prasannakumar-hh7cc I never was in a team bigger than 5 iOS developers working on the same project, so my experience is limited, but for sure, I can share my experience and my personal opinion on that.
Pärnu! ❤
Yes, it is. Nice city.
Do ios developers have any risk from gpt??of getting replaced??
Same as banks in bitcoin hype
Haha, exactly. The same like bitcoin will kill the banks.
Developers are safe for a while, but no one knows what will happen in 5+ years, tech is moving fast. It is possible that we will need to relearn and use different tools AI included.
I totally jumped and had to eat a lot of ramen noodles. It worked out though. You're right, indie dev pays more than freelance easily.
I have family with 2 kids, ramen is not an option I would like to offer them 😅
If I would be in my 20s with no family, I would move faster.
@@AivarsMeijers That's true. It's a different story when people depend on you.
How much do u make from freelancing?
Enough for comfortable living in EU
@@AivarsMeijers nice man. Which part of eu are u in? Planning to try lisbon for 3 months to do solo preneuer for ios apps
@@kh5322 I'm located in Latvia. Lisbon is a nice city, I spent there 2 weeks last spring. Visit Porto as well, which is smaller and not-so-hot, but also very nice city.
You look like mafia boss ✌️
The good days of freelance development are over. With the mass layoffs things will get worst. I feel sorry for the youngsters who want to start today. Almost no chance to succeed competing with AI.
Yeh, that is true. Now with AI and all the layoffs junior developers has even harder chance to get a first job.