Tens of thousands of coders today work from home, are their own bosses, and earn six figures in the process. They are freelance coders with their own business.
💡 I wrote this in my coding, tech, career, and artificial intelligence newsletter. Join us, we’re hundreds of thousands of ambitious techies! If you’ve read this newsletter for some time, you know that I don’t take the disruptive power of ChatGPT lightly. Some Finxter readers asked me whether freelancing is still the future of work. … Read more
I recently wrote in one of my emails that you should seek to “try out new and unconventional ways to approach life. The old ways will not work forever. Don’t take your parents’ advice (or even mine) because they would’ve told you the world market for computers is a couple of dozens, Bitcoin is stupid … Read more
Millionaires are made at the top of the income distribution. For example, have a look at the following Pareto distribution exemplifying how only the top sports players make all the money: If you want to earn a million dollars quickly, you need to become one of the top people in the world at something the … Read more
Want to make your website more interactive? Embed a Python interpreter into your website! Why? Because an embedded Python interpreter not only increases the interactivity and usability of your website — and creates happy users for your web business. It also increases the average time spent on your website because people will try out things. … Read more
If you’re landing here, chances are you run a Sendy instance on Amazon EC2 hosting “Simple Email Service (SES)” for email marketing and experience the following problem: Here’s a screenshot on my Sendy instance — the lists don’t load! How to Fix? To fix these two errors, you simply need a bigger Amazon EC2 instance … Read more
1-Sentence Summary The Innovator’s Dilemma provides a critical analysis of how disruptive technologies can revolutionize markets and explains how companies can stay competitive in the face of disruptive change. Short Summary Quote: “One theme common to all of these failures, however, is that the decisions that led to failure were made when the leaders in … Read more
For months, I focused on Facebook marketing, only to realize one day that this activity destroyed my time without generating any value for my Finxter.com users and myself. I developed the habit of calculating the ROI for one activity every day. The result of this simple activity blew my mind and changed the whole game for my … Read more
I asked the Finxter community of >150,000 coders how they used ChatGPT to create value in their own lives. I compiled all replies in this epic list of ideas. Of course, I used ChatGPT to help me summarize the main ideas I received from Finxters worldwide. ♥️ If you haven’t already, join 150,000 Finxters in … Read more
I run the Finxter email list with more than 150,000 subscribers at the time of writing. It is one of the most significant cost factors in my business. I love communicating with subscribers — but I definitely don’t love the cost pressure it injects into the business. If you pay multiple thousands of USD per … Read more
I wish you a new year of health, prosperity, and joy! Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reflecting on the future of Finxter and the positive impact we can make in 2023. Last November, we achieved a remarkable milestone – educating one million coders each month! That’s more people than can fit in … Read more
Idea 1: Web Scraping Tool 💬 Challenge: Create a tool that can scrape data from websites, such as product prices, stock prices, news articles, etc. This tool could be built using Python libraries such as BeautifulSoup, Selenium, and Requests. It could extract data from web pages and store it in a structured format, such as … Read more
Technology helps us to improve our daily lives in a variety of ways, from making our work more efficient to helping us stay connected with others. It also plays a critical role in driving innovation and progress in many fields, such as medicine and science. I also provide subjective estimates on the growth rate (CAGR … Read more