Entrepreneurs who code
25 stories
Learning to code with AI - Andrew's experience with Replit
Andrew Davison is a self-taught developer who is using AI to advance his coding knowledge. He's already sold an app he made with Python and…
Making $145k a year from job boards
Wouter is a self-taught developer who makes $145k a year from niche job boards. He learned to code after he grew tired of outsourcing the wo…
Rod's $60k job board directory
Today's interview is with Rod, a self-taught developer who has made over $60k from a directory of job boards. Read on to learn how Rod becam…
From Recruitment to Software Engineer
Cameron Blackwood changed career from recruitment to become a Software Engineer. He's a self-taught developer and he joined us for an interv…
Turning code into riches
Ian Nuttall has used the powerful combination of coding knowledge and marketing skills to produce several impressive exits. He sold an educa…
$200k exit after learning to code
Nico Jeannen has an incredble learning to code story. He left eCommerce to learn to code and build startups. This led to him to creating Tal…
$12k a month from learning to code
Today's interview is with Benjamin Houy, a self-taught developer who is making $12k a month with his startup for French language learners. R…
Learning to code at 40 - this founder shares how
Learning to code at 40 can seem daunting but Aaron did it. He chose to learn programming at 40 after losing money as a restaurant owner. Aar…
Nick Fogle built generational wealth from coding
I'm excited to share this interview with Nick Fogle, who built generational wealth from coding after he sold his startup Waave he co-founded…
Building a six figure business as a nomad self-taught dev
Jesse is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who is close to making a $1 million business while travelling the world. He's proof you do…
$14k/m profit from building a wish list business
Dash is a self-taught developer and an exciting entrepreneur. She learned to code by making a successful wish list business, Wish Tender. Th…
$300k as a solo founder with no CS degree or employees
KeyValues is a business ran by one founder, no employees and makes $300,000 a year. Pretty good, huh? This article is a deep-dive into the b…
The benefits of learning to code from a self taught programmer
In this interview Calum talks up the benefits of learning to code and why it can be great in terms of money, lifestyle, challenge and travel…
How this SAAS founder learned to code by building companies himself
Tadas Labudis(https://twitter.com/tadaslab) is a self-taught developer and the maker behind the customer analytics SAAS business Prodsight(h…
This Ukrainian self-taught dev makes the best Mac translation apps
Alex Chernikov grew up in a city in the east of Ukraine, now war-torn. He taught himself code and now makes a successful living making apps.…
The 16 year old maker of KanbanMail talks learning to code by doing
Ethan is the teenage developer behind a really cool web app, KanbanMail(https://kanbanmail.app), which was 3 Product of the Week on Product…
From zero coding to a job at Google in six months
Today I'm sharing an interview with an ex-Google Software Engineer who was able to get a job there after coding for just six months. Clément…
Wes Bos talks how he learned to code
I'm honored to have the one and only Wes Bos giving advice on learning to code. One of the most popular teachers of JavaScript in the world,…
From sleeping in a car in Silicon Valley to owning a development agency
Michael Aubry wanted to get out off his hometown in Illinois and work in Silicon Valley. So he drove across the country and arrived in Palo…
This self-taught CTO talks hiring developers with no CS degree
Self-taught programmer Alex Kremer heads up a developer team at eBacon, a payroll SAAS company, which is almost exclusively comprised of pro…
Being a digital nomad developer without a CS degree
Sander is a Dutch self-taught programmer who works from wherever he likes. He has been able to go out and snowboard in the morning before co…
How the Frontend Mentor founder learned to code
Matt Studdert runs the excellent Frontend Mentor website, which helps newbie coders learn to make websites by making real projects instead o…
From broke teacher to remote Uber Software Engineer
Aaron turned his career around by teaching himself to code and getting a job at Uber. He used to be a poor English teacher abroad. He now wo…
How the 20 year old co-creator of CleanShot learned to code
Luke Oslizlo talks learning to code without going to college and by making Mac OS design tools CleanShot and PixelSnap. I chatted with him o…