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Recent content by DamienRoche

  1. DamienRoche

    Crippling fear of asking for money. 8 years building and never launching my products.

    IDEA 
    It sounds like you need to develop a better vision of your target market. Could it be you haven't defined your customers properly and are filling the gap with an image from your own past? I'd recommend doing more market research and look into customer personas, give them names, behaviours and...
  2. DamienRoche

    I became a software engineer without college as well - thanks to TFF!

    SLOWLANE SAAS / APPS 
    I love seeing stories like this! As a self-taught developer it makes me sick seeing so many degreed professionals try to gatekeep the profession. There are too many engineers who are oblivious or in denial that you can do this without shelling over $$$$$ and 4 years for a degree. As you...
  3. DamienRoche

    Hey! Not been on the forum in months, apologies for late reply... and completely agree! The...

    Hey! Not been on the forum in months, apologies for late reply... and completely agree! The weather is literally the only thing keeping me away. The other extreme is also quite unbearable.. I can't live without an air conditioner in every room.. and simply not comfortable outside in the...
  4. DamienRoche

    Developing Fastlane Discipline

    EXECUTION 
    It is a long walk in the beginning! How long you been into coding? It's been a good 7/8 years on this side and it was horrific for 2-3 years. I still have times on new technology where I'll spend days smashing my head against the wall. Setting up kube clusters and learning about cluster...
  5. DamienRoche

    Been programming for 8 years, freelanced for 5, quit job of 3 years and moving to Thailand.. next?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    Hey! Going quite well, I'd say. I've been in Thailand now for about 4 months, am due to extend my ed visa tomorrow. Majority of the time I've spent trying to get myself focused while freelancing, cut back on dating and indulging in random crap and then got down to the business of fighting...
  6. DamienRoche

    Unsupportive spouse

    HOT! MINDSET 
    As someone said above, don't tell your wife, SHOW her. But I'd take that a step further and completely disregard your wife's opinions. Some of the most destructive discouragement can come from home. It isn't her fault, she just doesn't have the same entrepreneurial spirit - it's understandable...
  7. DamienRoche

    The irony of comfort, risk and uncertainty. How to deal with it?

    MINDSET 
    Here's the current problem I'm having. I recently quit my job and moved to another country, sold all my useless shit, cut down expenses and can now survive on 10 hours a week contracting -- could quite easily go full-force into contracting and build enough savings to have enough to survive in...
  8. DamienRoche

    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    Ya know, I used to think I was bipolar. I lived in the UK up until 2 months ago, when I moved to Thailand. I did also quit my job and move back to freelancing. Since then I've realised I wasn't prone to depression or bipolar or have a chemical imbalance - I was living in a crappy climate as a...
  9. DamienRoche

    I'm a 7 figure eCommerce Seller and Here's My 2 Cents

    HOT! 
    Honestly, sell anything and everything. Don't get stuck shopping for niches. You can spin your wheels for years and not get anywhere. The stars will never align and you'll never find a perfect opportunity. Just dive in and start learning.
  10. DamienRoche

    I want to dismantle and capture the attention of a highly active subreddit.. strategies?

    Thanks for the advice and graphic! Very useful.
  11. DamienRoche

    I want to dismantle and capture the attention of a highly active subreddit.. strategies?

    Something interesting happened over last few days. I sent a message to the mods of this subreddit and gave some of my ideas, explained my plans.. basically just to start a dialog. They never replied. Since then, the forum has been locked down (no new posts, just comments), completely pruned of...
  12. DamienRoche

    I want to dismantle and capture the attention of a highly active subreddit.. strategies?

    Considering I'm intimately aware of the problems and pain-points in this community, I'm starting to think perhaps it would be a better idea to solve one of those specific problems to a high degree and build momentum that way.
  13. DamienRoche

    I want to dismantle and capture the attention of a highly active subreddit.. strategies?

    Thanks for the feedback! I mean, I think the current forum is kinda run well -- mods try to delete crap and keep it somewhat pruned, but the direction of the actual community is taking an unstoppable turn, and the moderators cannot control the influx of the new self-improvement focused...
  14. DamienRoche

    I want to dismantle and capture the attention of a highly active subreddit.. strategies?

    Hey, no worries. This is surely not a fad. The community has largely changed direction towards self-improvement due to its effectiveness in reaching the goals of its members. Many new self-improvement topics have been introduced over the last 12 months and I can see this trend continuing as the...
  15. DamienRoche

    I want to dismantle and capture the attention of a highly active subreddit.. strategies?

    There are around 200k subscribers, plenty of active users. I've been part of this community on reddit for the last couple of years, and was part of a related community a couple years prior, AND have been part of the wider community that this community is morphing into for 15 years. -- it used to...
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