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Ten Ways to Make Money as a Developer  © 2020, Florin Pop  Version 1.0 - December 2020  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof                  may not be reproduced or used in any manner                  whatsoever without the express written permission of              the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a                      book review.  2

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Table of Contents  About this book 11  How to read the book? 12  What’s up with the “++” thing? 13  My programming journey 14  CHAPTER 1: ​WORKING AS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER 17  Why traditional employment? 18  Preparing for the job 19  Coding Bootcamp and College 20  Other ways to speed   up the learning process 22  Create a Portfolio 23  Write a Resume 25  Applying for jobs 26  Interviewing 28  Use LinkedIn to get job offers 30  CHAPTER 2: ​FREELANCING 31  How to Start Freelancing 32  3  VISIT - TutFlix.io

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  What do I need to know to start freelancing? 32  Do I have to register a business? 33  Why would you want to freelance? 33  What services can you offer as a freelance                developer? 34  Where to Start Freelancing 36  Platforms to freelance on 37  Your own portfolio website 38  How to Charge for a Website 39  Hourly pricing 39  Project-based 39  Value-based 40  Here’s how to determine a value-based price: 42  How to send website proposals 44  What is a proposal template? 44  How to get clients 46  Google Ads 47  Facebook Groups 49  Join Existing Facebook Groups 50      4  

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Create Your Own Facebook Group 51  LinkedIn Ads 52  Your Own Platform 54  Freelancing Platforms 55  Manual Outreach 55  CHAPTER 3: ​BLOGGING 59  Why start blogging? 60 Improve your own skills 60  Market yourself 61  Extra $$$ 61  How to start blogging? 61  Pick a niche/topic 62  How to pick a niche 63  How to create a blog 64  Other ways to create a blog 65  Blog on existing platforms 65  Finding an audience 67  Growing your audience 68  Have a schedule 68  5 

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Create an email newsletter 69  How to make money blogging 70  Ads 71  Affiliates 72  Sponsored Posts 73  Promoting your own products/services 75  Getting paid to write for other publications 76  CHAPTER 4: ​RUNNING A YOUTUBE CHANNEL 79  Why YouTube? 80  How I started on YouTube 81  Starting your YouTube channel 83  Picking a niche 83  Recording Software 84  Editing Software 85  And... START! 86  How to make money on YouTube 87  YouTube Ads 87  Membership / Donations 91  6

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  Affiliate Marketing 93  Brand Deals / Sponsorship 94  Promote your own products 97  CHAPTER 5: ​LIVE CODING & STREAMING 99  How to start 100  YouTube VS Twitch 102  Ways to make money while Live Coding 104  Donations 105  Bits 106  Memberships and Subscriptions 107  Exclusive Live Streams 108  CHAPTER 6: ​1-ON-1 MENTORING 109  My mentoring journey 111  How much to charge? 113  Where to find mentees? 114  CHAPTER 7: ​CREATING COURSES 117  How to create a course 118  Pick a topic 118      7 

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  Create the Course outline 119  Software and Tools 120  Having an audience 120  Where to sell your courses 121  Course marketplaces 121  Course platforms 122  Build your own platform 123  Marketing 124  Promotion post-launch 125  Setting up affiliates 126  CHAPTER 8: ​CREATING DIGITAL PRODUCTS 127  What are digital products? 128  What kind of digital products are there? 128  Why digital products? 129  Where to sell? 130  How to create a product? 131  Build an MVP 132  Market your product 133      8  

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  Build an email newsletter 134  Leverage other people’s audiences 135  Bundle it up! 135  CHAPTER 9: ​CONTRIBUTING TO OPEN SOURCE 137  Extra ways to get a reward   for your OS contributions 140  CHAPTER 10: ​CREATING SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE 143  What is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)? 144  Benefits of SaaS as a Startup 145  Considerations of SaaS as a Startup 147  How to Build a SaaS Product 149  Find an idea 149  The ‘LEAN’ method 150  Choosing the Tech Stack 152  Choosing the Pricing Model 153  Usage-based pricing. 154  Per-user pricing. 154  Flat-rate pricing. 154  Freemium and Trial 154      9 

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  Stop thinking - start doing 155  How to gather Validated Learnings 156  Prototyping 156  Analytics 157  User testing 158  Split testing 158  Promoting your SaaS Product 160  Build an audience 160  Paid ads 161  Affiliate marketing 162  Selling your SaaS Product 163  Getting acquired 163  Thank you! 165  What’s next? 165  Don’t be a stranger 166        10  

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  About this  book  Coding is a fantastic skill. It opens doors to exciting new                      opportunities. This is what it did for me and for lots of                        people that I know!  In this book, I’m going to share everything I have                    learned along my journey about monetizing my              development skills. Going from freelancing to having a                job to becoming a content creator, writing articles to                  creating videos on my YouTube channel, and much                more.  In this book, you’re going to learn about TEN++ ways to                      generate income with your development skills.  I will walk through each of these methods, explain how                    you can apply your coding skills to succeed, and offer                    tips to help you get started.  You might be familiar with some of these ways, and                    that’s perfect! But in case you’d like to try out                      Florin Pop  TEN WAYS TO MAKE MONEY AS A DEVELOPER 11 

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something else I want to simplify the process for you as                      much as possible.  It took me over 7 years to learn everything I’m going to                        share with you in this book, and above that, for some of                        the chapters, I’ve reached out to other experts in the                    field and got them to share their journey and                  experience as well.  I’m doing all of this because I want to make sure that                        you’ll get the most value out of the money you spent                      buying this book!   I want to believe that this book offers a 100x Return on                        Investment (ROI) because it's definitely helped me earn                over six figures in the past 7 years!  Was it easy? No. Was it fast? No. It took time and effort. I                            spent thousands of hours learning. I love to learn which                    made this journey even more enjoyable (and I hope                  you'll love it too!).  How to read the book?  As this book has unique chapters that let you read what                      you are interested in without having to read                sequentially, you can start reading any chapter you                wish. Feel free to jump to whichever section you seem                    fit.  12 ABOUT THIS BOOK

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  If you want to read the entire book and get the most                        out of it, then just simply go page by page as with a                          usual book.  What’s up with the “++”  thing?  I don’t claim to have all the knowledge in the world                      therefore I’m always learning and this book is in a                    “continuous development” mode. I’m going to keep              adding more information to the book as I experiment                  and learn new things myself.  It might be just updating a chapter with new                  information or it might be even adding a brand new                    chapter in the future.   I’ll continue to work to make this book better and better!                      That’s what the `++` stands for.    Don’t worry! You’ll get access to all these book updates                    for free as a token of appreciation for trusting me and                      purchasing this book in the first place.      Florin Pop  TEN WAYS TO MAKE MONEY AS A DEVELOPER 13 

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  My programming journey  I started my career as a freelancer back in 2013, kind of.                        I say kind of because the projects I was working on                      were small and it was more of an experiment than                    something I planned and wanted to do. Even though                  these projects were small, they laid the foundation for                  my first “real” programming job as a professional                developer.  I landed my first part-time development job during                college, working as an XPages developer. I don’t even                  remember what XPages is anymore! What I can                remember is that we had some JavaScript too, which                  was cool. Nevertheless, I stayed in that job for around 8                      months until the company had to cut the development                  department. I was one of the two people who remained                    but they wanted me to switch my focus to design and                      because I wanted to pursue my passion for                programming, I resigned.  For the next few years I worked again as a freelancer,                      but this time I took it more seriously and worked on                      some bigger projects.   I got married after finishing college and soon after that                    I got a high-paying job offer and worked there for                        14 ABOUT THIS BOOK 

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  almost 2 years as a ReactJS developer and CSS ninja!                    (The latter was not in the job description, I added it                      myself to look cool).  I accepted the ReactJS position for mainly two reasons:  ● First​, because I wanted to get a feel of how it is to                          be working in a big company with multiple                co-workers and big projects. I’ve learned a lot                along the way and met some amazing              developers!  ● Second ​, the steady paycheck. We saved up some                money and after 2 years I resigned and started                  my journey as a content creator (blogger,              YouTuber and streamer).  To be honest, I didn’t feel that I could be employed for                        the rest of my life and I wanted to try my hand at being                            self-employed.      Note: ​Just because standard employment wasn’t for              me, it doesn’t mean that it’s not for you either. Try it out                          and who knows, maybe it is the right thing for you as it                          is for a lot of people. You never know until you try.        Florin Pop  TEN WAYS TO MAKE MONEY AS A DEVELOPER 15 

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  Since I began my journey as a content creator I have                      grown a following of over 150k followers across different                  social media platforms (Twitter, YouTube, blog) and              had the chance to help hundreds of thousands of                  people through my blog posts, YouTube videos, live                streams and in some cases directly through DMs and                  emails.  Doing all of the above brought me a lot of joy and I’m                          very grateful for everything that has happened to me                  since I started this journey!  As of now I can’t imagine doing something else than                    learning and sharing what I’m learning with those who                  are following me. Seems like the perfect job for me.  Speaking of sharing what I’ve learned, let’s get into the                    business, shall we?      16 ABOUT THIS BOOK 

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  CHAPTER 1  WORKING AS A  PROFESSIONAL  DEVELOPER                         

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  Working for a company as an employee is the most                    common way to make income as a developer. Even                  though this eBook is focused mostly on the other ways                    to make money as a developer, I recommend you to at                      least give this one a try for a while. Working within a                        team of other developers on large scale software                projects is an effective way to improve both your                  technical and non-technical skills.  Why traditional  employment?   There are a couple of reasons why I would recommend                    it, especially when you’re starting out.  - Having a stable income while you’re still learning                and experimenting  - Health insurance, Pension, Paid vacation  - Learning to work on larger projects with large                codebases (experience operating at scale)  - Learning from co-workers (formal + informal            mentorship)  - Having a structured career progression    CHAPTER 1  18 WORKING AS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER 

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  - Company reputation can be a useful signal even                after you leave (e.g. FAANG)  Preparing for the job  There are numerous paths to learn how to code. Some                    options can be expensive, such as college or a                  bootcamp, while others are available for free online.                Regardless of the path you choose, it is important to                    dedicate time to your studies and form a habit of                    learning and “hacking” (daily if possible!).  I recommend starting with freeCodeCamp. It’s free and                a great resource for beginners to get into web                  development. YouTube is another resource I used daily                to learn coding. When learning from YouTube (or any                  course) it is important to not only watch the tutorial, but                      to also get your hands dirty by coding the project(s)                    yourself.  Build, build, build! That’s the best way I found which                    helps you understand how the code works.  Whenever there is something in a tutorial that I don’t                    fully understand, I pause the video and start changing                  the code myself to see how it affects the output. That’s                      when I get my “Eureka!” moments.    Florin Pop  TEN WAYS TO MAKE MONEY AS A DEVELOPER 19 

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  When it comes to online courses, there are, again,                  thousands of them. The good thing about courses is                  that they give you a structured format, which is easier                    to follow.  There isn’t one “best” course out there to teach you                    everything you need to know. You can learn something                  from any course, and at the end of the day, it might just                          come down to how much you like the teaching style of                      the instructor.  In my case, I pretty much like every instructor as long                      as I can understand clearly what they are saying.  Another thing I usually do is follow multiple instructors                  on the same topic. Once you do that you start to notice                        a pattern of the most important concepts they teach                  which are usually the fundamentals.  Coding Bootcamp and  College  I’ve heard both sides of the story when it comes to                      Coding Bootcamps. Some find it very useful, and others                  not so much. There are multiple factors when it comes                    to deciding on a successful Coding Bootcamp. In case                  you want to attend one, do your research on your                    preferred bootcamps, and see what others are saying                  CHAPTER 1  20 WORKING AS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER