4-year startup failed, going freelance... 🤷♂️
Software Developer with over 7 years of experience building Mobile Apps and Websites. Founder of multiple startups, two of which have been featured in Forbes and one that won the Cellerant Best of Class Technology Award for emerging dental products.
For the last couple of years, I have been working on my own startup with my team. It's been an amazing ride, we went to China for a few months to participate in an accelerator program, build an actual product and sold it to a few hundred people. So far so good...
What we failed at, is the product. We haven't tested our product enough, hence finding out a lot of mistakes when we actually started to sell it to people. Lessons learned 🙏
As sad as it is, it also opened doors to new opportunities like Freelancing... 🧑💻 I did freelancing a couple of years ago, but the experience wasn't the greatest as I was working hard and earning low (as expected when starting out). Since then, I wasn't really excited about going back to freelancing anymore...
Now, I am thinking that actually, I could sell myself much more expensive as I gained a lot of knowledge during the last 3-4 years while working as a React Native Developer. But in order for me to showcase my skills, I figured out that I need to fix my Linkedin profile, create a good resume, start budgeting my business expenses, improve my proposals and build my portfolio so I can showcase it to my clients. That's quite some work to do, ha? 😮
In later blogs, I will dive into details about each aspect I had to improve, like, budgeting, resume, Linkedin, etc. so maybe you can also benefit from it. 🤲
At the moment I am working on my portfolio which I designed in Figma and built-in Next.js. Here is a little demo of the website 😊
Although it looks pretty good on the desktop, it's not yet responsive for mobile. 😞 To be honest, It's been a while since I have done HTML and CSS, so I might have to relearn some stuff...
Next week I am gonna go more deeply into how I actually built my portfolio and the things I learned on the way. Stay tuned for awesome insights! 🎉
p.s 🤫 I recently started a podcast called The Anxious Developer where I share my knowledge on how to reduce your stress, become more present and productive as a Developer. I would love to hear your thoughts on it! 😊
Remember, you are worthy, you are loved and you matter! Have a great day! ❤️
