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Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by doteka »

Brazilian-Sigma wrote: post #41

It's beyond me how two ex-Google engineers and graduates of top CS programs with 2 years on their hands end up creating a resume generator that a CS freshman could have written in their free time! Not putting you down or anything, sometimes unexpected random things jam your workflow (like unfamiliarity with front end design), etc.

Last time I was on the job market, I wrote a little CLI tool that given data in yaml format, spits out a pixel perfect pdf resume. It took me 2 hours and about 200 combined lines of Python, HTML and CSS.

While I wish the author the best of luck, I’m not sure resume builders for developers are a hot market.

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by harrisonjackson »

I'd like to see this article come 6 months from now with $1000 or $10,000 in revenue. $10 is great (especially after 2 years of lessons hard learned) but I wouldn't say $10 is a signal of easier or better things to come.

The next couple of milestones will likely be just as hard to hit if not harder. For your sake, I hope it is mostly hard work and not more pivots or learning.

Coming from someone that can appreciate every step of those past couple years for you and your brother. My brother and I similarly left salaried engineering jobs for the startup unknown. All the best!

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by read_if_gay_ »

doteka wrote: post #51
Brazilian-Sigma wrote: post #41

It's beyond me how two ex-Google engineers and graduates of top CS programs with 2 years on their hands end up creating a resume generator that a CS freshman could have written in their free time! Not putting you down or anything, sometimes unexpected random things jam your workflow (like unfamiliarity with front end design), etc.

Last time I was on the job market, I wrote a little CLI tool that given data in yaml format, spits out a pixel perfect pdf resume. It took me 2 hours and about 200 combined lines of Python, HTML and CSS. While I wish the author the best of luck, I’m not sure resume builders for developers are a hot market.

There are qualitative differences in resumes. If they can sell theirs as giving you higher chances of success, that's worth something.

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by [deleted] »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #53
doteka wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last time I was on the job market, I wrote a little CLI tool that given data in yaml format, spits out a pixel perfect pdf resume. It took me 2 hours and about 200 combined lines of Python, HTML and CSS. While I wish the author the best of luck, I’m not sure resume builders for developers are a hot market.

There are qualitative differences in resumes. If they can sell theirs as giving you higher chances of success, that's worth something.

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Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by bananaface »

MangoCoffee wrote: post #35
ackbar03 wrote: post #26

Your time-line is remarkably similar to what I've experienced, I also quit my finance job to start a business with a co-founder in 2018 at the age 26. It's also an online product but quite different so it's hard to draw additional parralels but I can totally appreciate your up and downs along the way. It kind of sucks sometimes but for me it's also why I did this in the first place, so I don't look back in my mid thi…

> I also quit my finance job to start a business with a co-founder in 2018 at the age 26. It's also an online product but quite different so it's hard to draw additional parralels but I can totally appreciate your up and downs along the way. It kind of sucks sometimes but for me it's also why I did this in the first place, so I don't look back in my mid thirties with kids and a mortgage and wished I'd did something m…

Appetite for risk and energy both decrease with age.

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by mattmanser »

bananaface wrote: post #56
MangoCoffee wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I also quit my finance job to start a business with a co-founder in 2018 at the age 26. It's also an online product but quite different so it's hard to draw additional parralels but I can totally appreciate your up and downs along the way. It kind of sucks sometimes but for me it's also why I did this in the first place, so I don't look back in my mid thirties with kids and a mortgage and wished I'd did something m…

Appetite for risk and energy both decrease with age.

Middle aged founders are the norm and more likely to take risks because they have financial backing and experience. They're also going to have been exposed to genuine opportunity, instead of a resume builder a college grad might think was a clever idea, and anyone else thinks is kind of a waste of time, as evidenced by the comments here.

It's always been the case, it always will be the case.

With the briefest of Googles you can even find out that's true even in the high-growth tech space:

https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by nikanj »

julianeon wrote: post #47

The really useful lesson that I'd like to highlight here is: In 2020, even if you're a smart hardworking person and enterprising and so on, it's surprisingly hard to make a buck, much less a living. Now, if you've worked at GCP for 10 years as an enterprise architect and your books is like "insights into using GCP" - that may not be very hard. You could make real money fast. But it took 10 years to get there, to accr…

Jeff Bezos: “All overnight success takes about 10 years.”

Things that seem to have exploded onto the market overnight have almost always spent years building up under the covers

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by FabHK »

NovemberWhiskey wrote: post #37
fampi wrote: post #20

You will not like the path you are on. - Google Namedropping is annoying like hell and i have seen it plenty of times. You will not feel great if you need to bring that up all the time - When i google for Resumes, resume.io is the first hit with ad and it cost 3$ - When i go to your website, i don't even know that it is a paid product - People really don't care that much about there resumes. I have seen probably 50 o…

> I never cared about the layout much, i cared about the content. Let me amplify that further - often when I'm using a recruiter to assist with hiring (rather than direct sourcing), the recruiters will take the candidate resumes and normalize them to remove formatting, layout and structural differences.

> take the candidate resumes and normalize them to remove formatting, layout and structural differences

In my experience, mostly they "normalise" CVs to remove contact information (and replace with their own).

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by doteka »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #53
doteka wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last time I was on the job market, I wrote a little CLI tool that given data in yaml format, spits out a pixel perfect pdf resume. It took me 2 hours and about 200 combined lines of Python, HTML and CSS. While I wish the author the best of luck, I’m not sure resume builders for developers are a hot market.

There are qualitative differences in resumes. If they can sell theirs as giving you higher chances of success, that's worth something.

I’ve been involved in hiring since my very first dev job - not sure I’d trust a random resume builder more than my experience sifting through 100s of them. But I guess there may be some small market here.
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