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Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
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Re: Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's a very good living wage It's a very good wage for _surviving_. After taking care of rent/utility bills there's not much left to go around for actually living.
>After taking care of rent/bills there's not much left to go around for actually living. Are you implying rent/bills in Romania are $1k/mo?
$1k/mo is the budget for an employee. Based on an salary app I've found online, an employee will receive around 680$/month after all taxes. It's a bit under-average for entry level devs in Romania but it's enough to live decent (the average national wage is around 460$ per month after taxes).
Re: Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
#33Hi everybody, here is Alex, the co-founder of Creative Tim. Hope the information from this interview will help you achieve more with your current business or give you the courage to start your own business. If you have any suggestions or feedback I would be glad to talk with you. Best, Alex
Hi, Alex. Nice new material design templates and open sourcing them! It looks like the developer wrote their own code[1] to achieve the material design look and feel; will your team be using Google's Material Design Components in HTML/CSS/JS [2] in the future?
[1] https://github.com/creativetimofficial/material-dashboard
Re: Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Is everyone in Romania, and is that a living wage there? It's a very good living wage for Romania but low for what other IT people are earning, ~$2k monthly.
Why don't Romanians just get remote jobs?
They come to Western Europe :) Last year I hired two Romanian developers here in The Netherlands, both were very good.
Re: Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Is everyone in Romania, and is that a living wage there? It's a very good living wage for Romania but low for what other IT people are earning, ~$2k monthly.
> It's a very good living wage It's a very good wage for _surviving_. After taking care of rent/utility bills there's not much left to go around for actually living.
One could say the same for Bay Area salary of $150k.
Re: Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
#36I really love these IndieHackers interviews but surprisingly find them somewhat demotivating.
Even the more successful interviewees make less revenue per month than I can make through straight consulting. And they're the success stories—most people (including myself) make far less per month from their products.
How do people keep motivated to work on side projects when consulting is so much more profitable?
Re: Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you believe it to be that easy to get a remote job, such that all Romanians can simply just "get" one?
It's not easy , but you can do it. Source: I'm Romanian and I work remotely. I found the job here in the monthly Who's Hiring thread.
My point was not "Romanians can't get remote jobs," but rather "It's not so easy to get remote jobs that all Romanians can simply get a remote job."
Re: Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
#38I really love these IndieHackers interviews but surprisingly find them somewhat demotivating. Even the more successful interviewees make less revenue per month than I can make through straight consulting. And they're the success stories—most people (including myself) make far less per month from their products. How do people keep motivated to work on side projects when consulting is so much more profitable?
If you can make more than $17k/month from straight consulting, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter please.
Re: Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
The rent in UK (not London), Germany, France (not Paris), Italy, Spain, Portugal, etc... are under $1k a month. Romania is eastern Europe. It should be way cheaper than that.
Rent most likely ~200, food ~100-200, misc ~100. You can get by with 300-500/month in eastern Europe, but you will have to monitor your expenses really closely. 300 if you live with friends/parents, cook at home and don't really do much else other than eat, sleep and work. Get a decent apartment, have some fun in your free time and 1000 does turn into a "barely getting by"-wage. 1.5k-2k is comfortable wage, but media…
How much for a decent high-speed Internet connection?
Re: Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
#4017k a month is only 204k a year which is awesome don't get me wrong but I'm not sure that supports 6 employees.