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I recently quit LinkedIn after reaching 2.5k followers

It became unbearable

More importantly, it did not have my audience of interest

Builders sit here and on Twitter

2 years ago today, I left my job to learn to code

2022: I learnt to code, built projects

2023: I applied for jobs, and interviewed, but didn't get hired

I haven't contributed anything monetary to my family and I feel ashamed to say so

With the dev hiring market still being in bad shape, my best bet is to:

-Build products in public, grab eyeballs, and maybe someone hires me for my dev skills

-If any of the products work, try to make money through it

Starting tomorrow, when people would take challenges such as NNN, or no shave nov.

I wish to just challenge myself to not give up, build and share ( write )

I plan to write a long-form article every day and then use it to create smaller digestible content for posting on

Reddit, Indie hackers, Twitter, Medium

I follow a guy on Twitter who has grown tremendously in the past few months and he says, "Lone wolves die on X"

I am looking for 2 more wolves like me who are hungry, wish to make money, believe in build-in-public or simply writing to grow and just get out of the situation they are in right now

Let me make this clear, I am not asking for us to work on some product together,

I plan to form a group where we share resources, we push each other

We help each other grow

Not necessary that you're a developer, you could be anyone, in the comments mention your age and if you would want to become a part and why

I will help you as much as I can, moreover, this is FREE, and if it does not seem to work after 2-3 weeks, we can simply quit, no harm for anyone.

There are 2 months left for this year to end, I am broke rn, and if there's one thing I know right now, it's that when this year ends, I won't be broken.

If interested - Age, why you would be interested

If not interested - Tell me what I can do right now, I am a developer working on a code boilerplate-based product and will also offer MVP services with post-build marketing and outreach direction

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[–] LuminescentLinguist@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

21M, Why? I'm in my last year of BCA (Bachelor in computer application) and haven't built any worthy project for showcasing them on my resume, mostly because I was distracted by family problems, and i really want to step up to learn and make really good projects, so I'd really like to have a group which keeps me motivated.

27M, Few months ago I tried to build a side hustle. And I've been procrastinating since. It's been 6 months. At this point I don't even know how to improve my habit of procrastination. Videos and online tutorials make it sound very easy to beat procrastination but believe me it's very hard and habits don't change very easily.

Anyway here's the project https://github.com/useoutline/analytics-sdk
I did make small minor improvements but nothing major. Actually I hoped to release it by June 2023 but here we are entering November and nothing's ready except the SDK.

[–] Middlewarian@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I am looking for 2 more wolves

That's brutal.

[–] EdTwoONine@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

40M, Product Manager - I'm startinga new role in my firm around our data (about 1B parts) and I'm keen to learn more about big data management and what tools could be built to support large data teams (ours in 450 people)

[–] thailannnnnnnnd@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Good luck but if you’re gonna quit in 2-3 weeks of no “growth” you might as well quit now? Just look at the #buildinpublic hashtag on Twitter. People try to emulate the big ones and there’s essentially zero activity engagement.