Hello, my dream is to no longer have to worry about money so I can focus on game development and other things like exercising, socializing etc.
Books like TMF , Unscripted and many more made me face the tangibility of this dream and to learn programming in the first place (in my free time).
It enabled me to quit my training for a really boring job and to land a job as a full stack web developer without any formal training. Since half a year I only have to work 4 days a week with really nice coworkers.
This leaves me 3 days in the week to do whatever I want. So far I have used that time mainly to familiarize myself with programming languages, libraries and frameworks new to me but I think I have had enough of that. These things no longer pose a real challenge to me (except for functional programming languages) and thus it would be a waste of time to pursue this further, only when the need should actually arise.
Now I'm wondering how to make the best use of that time. The last two weeks I was on holiday and started working on a web application, which when completed could be competition to a very big company.
But I'm having doubts if spending all my free time on this application would be a good idea. Releasing it myself could be very risky. People could sue me just to get rid of me and I could end up in jail for the rest of my life (for braking a law I overlooked or just for not being able to afford to defend myself in court).
Selling an application to a company before even releasing it, on the other hand wouldn't earn me as much money in comparison to releasing it myself.
I thought it would perhaps be a good option to sell such an application, not for an upfront price, but a guarantee that I get a certain percentage of revenue generated by the application if that is at all practical.
So I'm wondering what is the best way to make money as a programmer? Is my approach a good one? I basically have no experience in business. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Books like TMF , Unscripted and many more made me face the tangibility of this dream and to learn programming in the first place (in my free time).
It enabled me to quit my training for a really boring job and to land a job as a full stack web developer without any formal training. Since half a year I only have to work 4 days a week with really nice coworkers.
This leaves me 3 days in the week to do whatever I want. So far I have used that time mainly to familiarize myself with programming languages, libraries and frameworks new to me but I think I have had enough of that. These things no longer pose a real challenge to me (except for functional programming languages) and thus it would be a waste of time to pursue this further, only when the need should actually arise.
Now I'm wondering how to make the best use of that time. The last two weeks I was on holiday and started working on a web application, which when completed could be competition to a very big company.
But I'm having doubts if spending all my free time on this application would be a good idea. Releasing it myself could be very risky. People could sue me just to get rid of me and I could end up in jail for the rest of my life (for braking a law I overlooked or just for not being able to afford to defend myself in court).
Selling an application to a company before even releasing it, on the other hand wouldn't earn me as much money in comparison to releasing it myself.
I thought it would perhaps be a good option to sell such an application, not for an upfront price, but a guarantee that I get a certain percentage of revenue generated by the application if that is at all practical.
So I'm wondering what is the best way to make money as a programmer? Is my approach a good one? I basically have no experience in business. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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