Everyone has doubts. Would love to chat about what you've done.

https://calendly.com/faisal-abid/call

What brings you to Hacker News? Are you looking to get into development?

I enjoy the discussions here (for the most part) more than the other social media options.

I've done some courses in data analysis, as well as python. I usually lose steam after self teaching after a few months though.

I've found it hard to break in without a degree.

> I've found it hard to break in without a degree.

You don't need a degree if you have substantial projects and put them on your resume. Your resume just needs to convey that you have actually done significant programming work and that you're good at it.

If you don't yet have a portfolio of projects, you can start building it now.

One option that could help with projects are udemy or similar courses. I've done a couple courses centered around a project, like this one: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-react-native-and-r...

You'd probably want to personalize/customize the projects, but could be a good starting point.

Yep this. It will take a while to make some projects that you'll be happy to display publicly but this is the cheapest route to go.

The longer I am around the more I realize that pretty much every knowledge worker field or creative field is just about having a rocking public portfolio and passing the van/line/airport test: "Would you want to be stuck in a van/line/airport with this person? Are they respectful and nice?" You can break into a surprising number of industries with time, a good heart, and work samples.

Perhaps check out this thread. Might give you ideas and/or inspiration.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24670746

If you are interested in tech, but want to go a more Linux/sysadmin route vs programming, then there are definitely avenues to get a foot in the tech door that don’t require a degree, or really necessarily, any certs either. You do kinda have to really want it and love it more than the average other person though.

A datacenter or hosting NOC (*nix oriented if at all possible; most NOC tech roles will be heavily Linux) Technician can be a fairly easy in, and has the potential to take you down a good career path. The great part about this particular entry level (usually) role, vs some other entry level IT role, is that you will learn a broad swath of internet/networking/linux/DNS/hosting/ security fundamentals that can easily jumpstart you into whatever specific tech path that you discover that you are most interested. After some experience and finding that out, you can then more fine-tune what your next job/role/tech path will/should be and look like.

Good luck and I wish you the very best! Stay positive and interested and it’s going to be fine!

It might be different if you actually had a job and the whole thing was a bit more concrete... but if you don't like self-learning in general, I would highly recommend against becoming a programmer. Everything changes all the time and you have to constantly learn new technologies. On the flip side, this makes it harder to get bored since you're always learning something new.

What is the breakdown of where the 4/6m will go to build this?

Breakdown of the first year, which is what 500k will get me (barely):

  - Month 1-to-4: Design/Build.
  - Month 5: Private beta with 10/20 freelancers.
  - Month 6: Start enterprise case-study.
  - Month 7: Soft launch for Freelancing.
  - MOnth 8-12: Raise next round.

I don't have a detailed breakdown for the Design/Build pahse.

What jobs are you applying for that you don't match the profile?

Just tried it and it's awesome. Looking forward to having more jams on it

thank you Faisal, appreciate it =[^_^]=

Excerise

Meditation

It's most likely the first two, with a high probability of being you are seeing traffic that would normally get blocked by Adblock. I would assume CloudFlare has the bot filtering in place

Thanks for the response -- that is what I assumed by wanted to see if I was missing something.

How have you got you account properties and views set up?

The main view you use for GA reporting will have the bot filterer turned on.

You do have the standard three view per property setup.

You need to look at the unfiltered view.

I must admit I haven't really looked at our cloud flare -

I am the bus factor guy who gets to stand-in for our main GA/GTM person - Large Multinational 50+ properties in one account, nearly 100 Containers.

Oh a final thought check your GA reports are not being sampled - you can get discrepancies.

Is this using OpenAI's API or are you running GPT-3 on your own machine?

You can only use GPT-3 via OpenAI's API currently.

Got it, that's what I thought!