Hey everyone!
This might be a long post and I apologise. My name's Tim, I'm a programming nerd, and I just finished my first year of university (studying computer science). I have recently finished reading TMF and Unscripted which have really opened my eyes to what's possible in life. I'm super grateful for finding these books at an early age. Thank you MJ for writing such fantastic books!
As for university, in hindsight it doesn't seem like the debt (yes I got student loans ) and time is worth it, but I already have signed a housing contract for next year so guess I'll just have to grind through it. I'm a self-taught programmer so I didn't actually learn a whole lot this year either.
Sorry if I'm rambling.
Anyway, so in sixth form (which is before university, I live in the UK) I created some software (educational technology- abbreviated as EdTech) for my physics teacher. It was actually a coursework project but in the end my teacher loved it and so I decided to try and spread the word a bit on social media. This worked quite successfully (relative to my expectations) and the site now has over 2000 users. I realise this isn't a lot but I naively thought it was so I decided to make a premium version of the software. So far I have had about 8 sign ups on that and made about £60 (lol). However despite it being not a lot of money, it feels amazing when people pay for something you made!
Now it's the summer holidays and I have a lot of free time until I start uni again (yay!). However I don't want to waste it. I can see 4 possible options for things to do this summer:
This might be a long post and I apologise. My name's Tim, I'm a programming nerd, and I just finished my first year of university (studying computer science). I have recently finished reading TMF and Unscripted which have really opened my eyes to what's possible in life. I'm super grateful for finding these books at an early age. Thank you MJ for writing such fantastic books!
As for university, in hindsight it doesn't seem like the debt (yes I got student loans ) and time is worth it, but I already have signed a housing contract for next year so guess I'll just have to grind through it. I'm a self-taught programmer so I didn't actually learn a whole lot this year either.
Sorry if I'm rambling.
Anyway, so in sixth form (which is before university, I live in the UK) I created some software (educational technology- abbreviated as EdTech) for my physics teacher. It was actually a coursework project but in the end my teacher loved it and so I decided to try and spread the word a bit on social media. This worked quite successfully (relative to my expectations) and the site now has over 2000 users. I realise this isn't a lot but I naively thought it was so I decided to make a premium version of the software. So far I have had about 8 sign ups on that and made about £60 (lol). However despite it being not a lot of money, it feels amazing when people pay for something you made!
Now it's the summer holidays and I have a lot of free time until I start uni again (yay!). However I don't want to waste it. I can see 4 possible options for things to do this summer:
- Rewrite my software (fully commit)- the problem with my site is that the code has got very messy and I can't see it scaling well. Therefore I am thinking about rewriting it (using better technologies and practices) and putting it on AWS. This will be pricey, in both time and money (AWS can get expensive) so I'm not sure whether it's a good idea.
- Improve my software (partial commit)- I'd still have to use the same technology unfortunately (PHP isn't the best choice for my purposes) but just try and clean it up a bit and add new features as well as try and reach a bigger audience.
- Pursue a different venture (abandonment) - don't have any ideas yet
- Get a damn job (ugh)
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