good luck but as someone who's been doing this for 7+ years I can tell you there's way more profitable things you could be doing with your time. Microservice, saas, shopify development, ect... one thing I would tell myself if I was to go back in time is "just focus on business products". You can make more money with 5 business owners than having 100 regular customers. And save yourself the stress. Don't get into courses unless you genuinely get joy from helping people because the money and amount of work it takes it's not worth it.
People have been doing stuff like this for a long time seems like you've unlocked it in a few days. I might have to jump on the bandwagon if there's money to be made selling a course online.
Definitely. My poorly constructed argument was trying to point out the fact that MAYBE that's how the majority of people will be making money soon (at least in programming)
@@willsamadi They will there are no long term jobs for the most point. You can't do this Unless you have a real skill set. Everybody else just working a job is cooked.
The best way to calculate if projects like this are worth it is take your hourly professional rate you are paid by a company and times it by the hours you worked on your person project. So if your course took 1 full week to develop working 8 hours every day, times 56 (total hours spent working) by x (your hourly wage). For demonstrative purposes x is 40. TOTAL: $2,240. I will refer to this as (OPP = 56*x) If you believe the lifetime sales will beat the results of OPP, then your project is worth it, otherwise, I would stick with what you are currently doing, or take on additional contract work at your hourly rate.
0:39 "The code they left you is gonna keep working forever".........I wish that were true, no code works forever, deprecated libraries, shit just randomly breaks outta nowhere because the library maintainer decides to discontinue it or even the package host is down. or an entire service has been shutdown so service is unreachable...no code can live forever, even one that AI has built, that's why even with all the hype of AI this and that and how good coders they are, they still can't fully replace because the services they will use like if they're gonna use like a google API, who knows, tomorrow google might decide to sunset that product and AI is clueless as to why your code isn't working.. I come back to my projects literally months later and everywhere is red
While it's true that no code is infallible and can face issues with deprecated libraries or discontinued services, the reality is that well-architected systems and proactive maintenance can significantly mitigate these risks. Modern development practices emphasize modularity, version control, and continuous integration, which ensure that code remains robust and adaptable to changes. AI, too, isn't just a coder but a tireless assistant, capable of monitoring and updating dependencies, suggesting alternatives, and even rewriting parts of the code to align with new standards. Instead of being blindsided by changes, we can leverage these tools to create resilient systems that evolve with the technological landscape. So, while no code may be immortal, with the right strategies and tools, we can get pretty close. Close enough to kill %90 of software eng. jobs. Not the need for work done by humans but jobs as the form they have now.
@@willsamadi exactly, so my point was the entire premise of that statement you made, the solutions you suggest counter the point you made in the video that after you get the code you could get code that lives forever and therefore don't need the devs who made it, while it's true that you don't need "all" of them, you still need more than one of them to do the suggested solutions you stated above...regardless of how modular your codebase is, or loosely coupled, once a dependency breaks, whatever modules that depend on it will break as well...needs dev intervention...version control hehe, dev intervention, I'm pretty certain the product owner doesn't know how to clone stash rebase merge and the list goes on...and other solutions do need them... Yeah, I agree close enough to kill 90 percent of our jobs, that's the scary future, but right now, I'm not worried, it's not remotely close to it..especially when it comes to SE, Software Engineering is more than just writing and maintainting code BTW, great video...I agree with a lot of your points
@@marana.th4 Yeah. And no code is perfect either, bugs will pop up and you need constant service. Still, a lot of that could be central. I know this gym owner who hasn't touched his website in years. He paid someone to set it up years ago and it's still running on a server. Every once in a while he needs some help fixing a problem it has but compared to a general labour worker who has to show up every day or you need to shut the place down, a code a developer leaves you is going to always be there and work. You could build the libraries into binary and that would always work if it works once unless you wanna get on a new protocol or some new feature of the web :) Again it won't work inifinitely but you don't need the team who developed it to show up every day. You hire them to make the website and then lay off until there is a big expansion or problem.
If it's an actual problem you are solving people will be searching for it and they will actually find you. I personally used my youtube channel (300 subs at that time). My next video is actually related to this.
Apologize if I conveyed that message unintentionally. The course is not related to this video and will be free for all in a couple of months. Most importantly I was not trying to sell the course to the audience of this video AT ALL.
@@willsamadi Idk if I got it wrong or u got it wrong hahaha... But probably he means about the actual part of "MAKING A COURSE", cause u can sell stuff, but for making a course u need a pretty good knowledge about it! Great video btw... 20 here starting to design also a product to sell in the future learning how to code
@@darianmorat Oh it could be anything though. I wanted it to be something otherwise it's not interesting. If it was a SaaS you could say the same thing. Hey man, good luck! Starting at 20, you are ahead of the game
I think personally things like web dev will die out by AI and stuff that are more beginner friendly. But industrial software will definitely stay around for a LONG time (PLC programming, Firmware programming, drivers etc...)
IMO: With internet newspapers didn't get obselete but more complicated (writers now need to learn to edit on a computer instead of a typewriter but the base knowledge is same). You can see the same trend in web dev. An old browser used to run on 1mb of ram. But now you have 32GB and chrome manages to use 16GB of it and has a hard time optimizing (means it actually needs that much to show you all the fancy features). AI is going to revolutionize things but people will make everything more complicated and cover all the advancements with feature dust. But AI will make anyone a good programmer and hiring a good programmer wouldn't make any sense. You'd just buy the piece of code you need for cheap probably unless it's very unique. What do you think?
@@willsamadipeople with experience and fundamentals (say like years of experience in coding) will out do newbies since they can prompt out the ai the correct way due to experience. The newbies without any experience will have a hard time competing with the pros. It’s the same as “money pulls money via investment” if you’re poor it’s hard to make money (since you can’t invest) same as this when ai takes over for coding
I have 3 good studio mics but I'm not good enough with making videos to distract with equipment yet haha. I really need to figure out my filmmaking set up though I agree. Thanks for the suggestion I will consider it.
Focus on good content bro. All these fancy stuff won’t make it better if you change the quality of your videos. I know it takes time and resources to maintain equipment. Simple is good
This is a very "draw the rest of the owl" kind of video. "I just made a landing page before the product & 200 people signed up" ..there's missing context there. Without THAT, the rest of the context is useless, truthfully.
good luck but as someone who's been doing this for 7+ years I can tell you there's way more profitable things you could be doing with your time. Microservice, saas, shopify development, ect... one thing I would tell myself if I was to go back in time is "just focus on business products". You can make more money with 5 business owners than having 100 regular customers. And save yourself the stress. Don't get into courses unless you genuinely get joy from helping people because the money and amount of work it takes it's not worth it.
Thank you for the comment! I totally agree! Heard the same thing from another indie developer telling people it's better to do b2b.
Or one could just build the next Facebook like Zuckerberg did :D
@@gavinlew8273
Winning lottery holds more guarantee statistically speaking than that!
Che che che it's your boy Joe
Please keep the videos coming! i've been loving the course
Great video, learned a lot. Keep it up
This video is gold bro! Thank you
Glad you liked it friend. Thanks for the kind comment.
Thank you for putting time and efforts into this video. Looking forward to seeing your next steps and progress of the course
Cool videos, keep the work up
This make so much logic, we have to get the "job" out of our heads. I'm building a job board now.
Yay I'm the 700th subscriber. Keep the good work up.
Thanks for subbing! Will do!
People have been doing stuff like this for a long time seems like you've unlocked it in a few days. I might have to jump on the bandwagon if there's money to be made selling a course online.
Definitely. My poorly constructed argument was trying to point out the fact that MAYBE that's how the majority of people will be making money soon (at least in programming)
@@willsamadi They will there are no long term jobs for the most point. You can't do this Unless you have a real skill set. Everybody else just working a job is cooked.
The best way to calculate if projects like this are worth it is take your hourly professional rate you are paid by a company and times it by the hours you worked on your person project.
So if your course took 1 full week to develop working 8 hours every day, times 56 (total hours spent working) by x (your hourly wage). For demonstrative purposes x is 40. TOTAL: $2,240. I will refer to this as (OPP = 56*x)
If you believe the lifetime sales will beat the results of OPP, then your project is worth it, otherwise, I would stick with what you are currently doing, or take on additional contract work at your hourly rate.
I like your way of thinking :D
Absolutely agreed (but also include a factor in your formula to include the increasing scarcity of jobs).
Thats cool !
Right? Some people make more just with 2 days worth of code. I saw this guy yesterday who had made $65k from a piece of AI code he made in 48 hours!
0:39 "The code they left you is gonna keep working forever".........I wish that were true, no code works forever, deprecated libraries, shit just randomly breaks outta nowhere because the library maintainer decides to discontinue it or even the package host is down. or an entire service has been shutdown so service is unreachable...no code can live forever, even one that AI has built, that's why even with all the hype of AI this and that and how good coders they are, they still can't fully replace because the services they will use like if they're gonna use like a google API, who knows, tomorrow google might decide to sunset that product and AI is clueless as to why your code isn't working.. I come back to my projects literally months later and everywhere is red
While it's true that no code is infallible and can face issues with deprecated libraries or discontinued services, the reality is that well-architected systems and proactive maintenance can significantly mitigate these risks. Modern development practices emphasize modularity, version control, and continuous integration, which ensure that code remains robust and adaptable to changes. AI, too, isn't just a coder but a tireless assistant, capable of monitoring and updating dependencies, suggesting alternatives, and even rewriting parts of the code to align with new standards. Instead of being blindsided by changes, we can leverage these tools to create resilient systems that evolve with the technological landscape. So, while no code may be immortal, with the right strategies and tools, we can get pretty close. Close enough to kill %90 of software eng. jobs. Not the need for work done by humans but jobs as the form they have now.
@@willsamadi exactly, so my point was the entire premise of that statement you made, the solutions you suggest counter the point you made in the video that after you get the code you could get code that lives forever and therefore don't need the devs who made it, while it's true that you don't need "all" of them, you still need more than one of them to do the suggested solutions you stated above...regardless of how modular your codebase is, or loosely coupled, once a dependency breaks, whatever modules that depend on it will break as well...needs dev intervention...version control hehe, dev intervention, I'm pretty certain the product owner doesn't know how to clone stash rebase merge and the list goes on...and other solutions do need them...
Yeah, I agree close enough to kill 90 percent of our jobs, that's the scary future, but right now, I'm not worried, it's not remotely close to it..especially when it comes to SE, Software Engineering is more than just writing and maintainting code
BTW, great video...I agree with a lot of your points
@@marana.th4 Yeah. And no code is perfect either, bugs will pop up and you need constant service. Still, a lot of that could be central. I know this gym owner who hasn't touched his website in years. He paid someone to set it up years ago and it's still running on a server. Every once in a while he needs some help fixing a problem it has but compared to a general labour worker who has to show up every day or you need to shut the place down, a code a developer leaves you is going to always be there and work. You could build the libraries into binary and that would always work if it works once unless you wanna get on a new protocol or some new feature of the web :)
Again it won't work inifinitely but you don't need the team who developed it to show up every day. You hire them to make the website and then lay off until there is a big expansion or problem.
Also funny after thinking companies don't want to hire developers that can't do this.
how did you get users?? thats the real question for me
If it's an actual problem you are solving people will be searching for it and they will actually find you. I personally used my youtube channel (300 subs at that time).
My next video is actually related to this.
Bro completely skipped the marketing part 🤣
My bad you’re right. Thanks for the comment friend. I appreciate your feedback.
You lost me at "so basically I want to sell a course"
Apologize if I conveyed that message unintentionally. The course is not related to this video and will be free for all in a couple of months. Most importantly I was not trying to sell the course to the audience of this video AT ALL.
@@willsamadi Idk if I got it wrong or u got it wrong hahaha... But probably he means about the actual part of "MAKING A COURSE", cause u can sell stuff, but for making a course u need a pretty good knowledge about it!
Great video btw... 20 here starting to design also a product to sell in the future learning how to code
@@darianmorat Oh it could be anything though. I wanted it to be something otherwise it's not interesting. If it was a SaaS you could say the same thing.
Hey man, good luck! Starting at 20, you are ahead of the game
I think personally things like web dev will die out by AI and stuff that are more beginner friendly. But industrial software will definitely stay around for a LONG time (PLC programming, Firmware programming, drivers etc...)
SAAS based web apps shud be fine for awhile… people who only know html css to develop basic website with static content are prolly doomed
IMO: With internet newspapers didn't get obselete but more complicated (writers now need to learn to edit on a computer instead of a typewriter but the base knowledge is same). You can see the same trend in web dev. An old browser used to run on 1mb of ram. But now you have 32GB and chrome manages to use 16GB of it and has a hard time optimizing (means it actually needs that much to show you all the fancy features). AI is going to revolutionize things but people will make everything more complicated and cover all the advancements with feature dust. But AI will make anyone a good programmer and hiring a good programmer wouldn't make any sense. You'd just buy the piece of code you need for cheap probably unless it's very unique.
What do you think?
@@willsamadipeople with experience and fundamentals (say like years of experience in coding) will out do newbies since they can prompt out the ai the correct way due to experience.
The newbies without any experience will have a hard time competing with the pros.
It’s the same as “money pulls money via investment”
if you’re poor it’s hard to make money (since you can’t invest)
same as this when ai takes over for coding
you're right. Like wordpress killed web deve... oh no wait.
Bingo jobs have outlived there 50years lifespan. Before that everybody sold their labor and skill.
plz dont leave
Haha just getting started friend
i’d highly suggest investing an a good mic bro
Nah, the content is already good raw like he did. Focus on good content instead
@@TarakoBR i mean both takes are kinda right, a good mic would level up, but i don't think it's super urgent
I have 3 good studio mics but I'm not good enough with making videos to distract with equipment yet haha. I really need to figure out my filmmaking set up though I agree. Thanks for the suggestion I will consider it.
Mic is good, but it also matter how you position it. And there could be less reverb in a room.
Focus on good content bro. All these fancy stuff won’t make it better if you change the quality of your videos. I know it takes time and resources to maintain equipment.
Simple is good
TL;DW: Basically work for yourself and not someone else.
Absolutely destroyed my video 😂
This is a very "draw the rest of the owl" kind of video.
"I just made a landing page before the product & 200 people signed up" ..there's missing context there. Without THAT, the rest of the context is useless, truthfully.