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    Is software freelancing a good undertaking nowadays?

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    Because I've spent doing it for 3 years and it went nowhere. Hence I'm here. Trying to build a career before building anything "fastlane", I guess. Much better to do anything when you have 5YoE and a SWE salary then when you are window cleaning and you have ... well, window cleaning income and...
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    Post all of your ideas and random problems you’ll never execute on...

    GOLD! HOT! IDEA 
    there's a thing called ReTool for that.
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    Is software freelancing a good undertaking nowadays?

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    Sup, Long story short, my story was here: STORY - Retrospective on 4 years in a pursuit of entrepreneurship. 13 lessons and a life story from a self-taught software engineer and a window cleaner. , but as of right now: - I spend 5 hours a day writing software for a client, - I spend the rest...
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    The Agencies & Freelancers Chat Thread / Mastermind

    CHAT 
    Timely thread. I'm stuck between window cleaning in the evenings and a 6$/hr software job in the morning. Mourning every day to switch to freelancing of sorts, since the software job market in Ireland (and everywhere really) is becoming near-unlivable at this point (?).
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    I'm 40, Grateful, and Ready to Think Bigger

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    >As a first-time entrepreneur, what advice would you give someone who is still searching for a need-driven opportunity and wants to start building without risking significant capital upfront? Any business is but a service. if you have a product, that's just a service delivered via a product...
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    MTF's Rebirth: Building a New Fastlane Vehicle

    EXECUTION 
    >Acquisition must be delegable, too. I can't be the one personally finding and contacting prospects. If I were you, when you define your ICP, set up a GTM engine. What that means is that finding leads is on autopilot using AI. Scraping ads library? you can do that. doing online research? you...
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    Retrospective on 4 years in a pursuit of entrepreneurship. 13 lessons and a life story from a self-taught software engineer and a window cleaner.

    STORY 
    I guess the question is how to make it in software and not window cleaning. That's the goal. Maybe you could say that I'm not disciplined, but I deliberately shied away from scaling window cleaning - even thought I have hired an employee last year. I stopped giving out the review cards which I...
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    Retrospective on 4 years in a pursuit of entrepreneurship. 13 lessons and a life story from a self-taught software engineer and a window cleaner.

    STORY 
    It's not just free, it's paid. In EU, it's a job. That you need to win. The pay is 2000 EUR/mo for 4 years + a credential . yes, actually, I'm getting 30-40EUR/hr doing windows (who could have thought). The problem is that I'm trying to exit it and move into a software job which long-run should...
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    What is a good way to validate a SaaS before building it?

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    that said - talk with your users. that's the best way to learn if you are solving a problem. Also, a great shorthand is: are they already paying for the problem? If they are, there is likely a market. Remember that software is only ever a shortcut for human labor; that especially goes for AI...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Got to love the forum.
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    What is a good way to validate a SaaS before building it?

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    I had the same problem and I was advised "the right it" years ago. also, I would add "click!" (both written by very solid software founders by the way). The latter is arguably more comprehensive and also shorter.
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    Retrospective on 4 years in a pursuit of entrepreneurship. 13 lessons and a life story from a self-taught software engineer and a window cleaner.

    STORY 
    Hello, Some of you may remember me, some not, I've been out of TFLF for a year now. I've learned much more from execution and working 100-120 hours a week for all the 4 years than from any thread from this forum, and I had to learn on my own mistakes and advise from the few around me. I wish...
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    MTF's Rebirth: Building a New Fastlane Vehicle

    EXECUTION 
    @MTF suggestion - I'm a LLM software engineer by profession, and I recommend against using Anthropic or OpenAI models for copywriting. Anthropic injects watermarked text which makes the text noticeably use very unusual words; that's by design to make the LLM text detectable...

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