Thanks! I stick to simple modern lines but with natural finishes to warm it up. These style choices never go out of style. Look up Eames. My finishes are walnut, Brazilian super white marble and some Carrara marble. I use shades of white and grey for the walls.
Hey, uncle Stef, I've been following you for years. Always good advices, but I think this video sums up all of your previous advices pretty well. Thanks.
Yisus uncle stef, I've seen videos of you talking about technologies before, but I didn't appreciate your wisdom until you started spreading the word about the big picture , and I'm definitely the type of personality that prefers SaaS, so here I go.... I dream that over the years and with success, this comment will be recognized as well as I recognize you for your incredible way of describing the big picture
I worked for a medium-large engineering firm.. we worked on cutting edge microwave tech for the military. The firm sacrificed all the many many clients to take on one very lucrative client... they lost their client.. thus had no work for that company and thus we went bust. The company was formed before WWII... but all that is there now is a small housing estate.
Congratulations on your amazing content! Your advice about building credibility as a freelancer is spot on and incredibly valuable. I truly appreciate all the counseling you share-it’s practical, insightful, and I’ve taken all your tips to heart. Keep up the great work; you’re making a real difference for freelancers like me!
12:53 you have to careful with averages Things like salaries and business success don't follow a bell curve, it's a 80/20 curve (because bell curves only really happen when every outcome is independent from each other, that's not the case with careers)
It was already in the process of getting automated back in 2016. Although it sucks, hopefully you can get back on your feet soon. I really hope the country can invest into better jobs without college degrees to help people as these changes happen.
I’m focusing on backend web development, specifically Java for that non-tech enterprise stability lol. My personality would enjoy the structure and predictability. I’m certainly a risk averse person lol
Get your mvp out as quickly as possible. Don’t get caught up in minutiae…. Just deliver the key functionality and make sure it looks and works good. Once you have users and some buy-in, you can refine and add in the marginal features.
@StefanMischook thanks but I'm not going to 😅 I understand the advice and where it's coming from and you are probably right for most cases but we've spent the best part of this year making our MVP doing weekends and it's just starting to take shape, I think we want to do the opposite and take our time to make it such a great experience you won't want to use anything else, I get that this might make it less likely to succeed, maybe the next one we would follow your advice
@@ZenTechnologistnow you see why owners of companies make so much more than general employees. The owner / founder(s) is/are the one(s) taking all the risk.
Uncle Steff, what do you think about Solopreneurs? Also, how do you visualize the current and future market of apps (iOS and android)? Would you say it is still viable? Thank you!
Thanks Uncle Stef, maybe a vague question but do you have any advice on how to bring a Saas from a local environment to the next level (hosting, advertising, mistakes to avoid, etc.) ?
Depends on the complexity of the SAAS, but generally just be sure the server versions match. So if you built your SAAS on X version of PHP and MySQL … as an example, but sure the live environment is the same.
Hi Stefan, just wonder if you have any tips for freelancers that now live overseas (aka digital nomads) but still want to retain or obtain clients from back home instead of locally?
Uncle Stef, I love your videos and advice. I’d love to learn web development and be a freelancer, and I hope I can achieve this goal with your courses or even mentoring program. My concern is whether the freelancer web developer career will work well as I’m located in Malaysia. Will your courses and bootcamp help me? Thank you.
New subscriber here. I'm glad youtube recommend this channel on my youtube feed. Can you recommend where (which websites) to find clients? I don't know how to find clients. Also, I don't know if my coding skills are good enough. Is volunteering as a web design of web development a good starting point to become a freelancer?
I want to do freelance as a full stack web developer. Were are the best job opportunities for people living in Africa. It's not easy to find client here to build a portfolio of real world projects that I can show so that I can multiplie my chances to get hired.What are the best advices you can give me?
the smartest people know when to get an job when to venture out and try creating an saas and when to just get an freelance job, based on the current direction of where of market is going. its never an fixed answer. of course each option has pros and cons but the pros and cons are also not fixed in couple years the pro of saas might be diluted and the con of dev jobs might be all the rage
I’ve been really enjoying your content recently! Numerous points that you’ve been bringing up often align with my own experiences while challenging some of my own opinions - I’ve got to say, it’s super engaging! A quick overview of my background: I started as the sole developer at a VC-backed recruitment startup straight out of university (degree in CS) 2015 - 2018, freelanced part-time while completing a PGDip in AI (2018-2020), ran a digital agency (mainly outsourcing but also employing a couple of people, this was fairly short-lived due to over-reliance on two clients and people not paying, just like you said, 2019 - 2020), then an e-com business (2020-2022). Now I’m studying an MSc in Advanced Computer Science, might start a part-time PhD whilst running some lifestyle businesses and slowly bootstrapping a SaaS over the course of the next six years. In short, I’m an aspiring academic who likes to take risks, if that isn’t antithetical? One of the questions I keep returning to as I consider your perspective (which I appriciate is distinguished) is whether inexperienced freelancers or junior devs working at start-ups (which I kind of consider to be of similar personality type given they both have tons of autonomy) should be entrusted to make decisions that (potentially) the clients/founders, as well as the devs themselves may not fully understand the consequences of, e.g. architecture, infrasturcture, security, compliance, regulatory considerations, etc. I know these all sound like big enterprise words, but it seems as though the threat landscape may be changing (“move fast and break things” in 2024/25, I’m not too sure about that); and given the data-centric world we currently live in, people are hyper-vigalent when it comes to their privacy and the protection of their personal data. Speaking from experience, I’ve been in a position where I was entrusted to make decisions that ultimately created technical debt later on down the line; and maybe security was more an afterthought, which may have been OKAY in 2015, but is it still OKAY today? I often reflect on whether it was ‘right’ for me to have been in that position, at that time - I don’t think so. Anyway! It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this - ethics in freelancing perhaps? Love the videos, I look forward to the next one!
Anyone here, have a project. I badly need a job, I know Ai image generation and text generation, wordpress with elementor / backend of it, photo and video editing, social media management.
ChatGPT is pretty bad at coding currently. It needs a lot of guidance, and will only respond to what you ask, without knowing the pitfalls that you're hitting. Now, I do not see "plenty of developer jobs" especially for code camp grads. I have an entire discord for devs and mentor at two coding camps and I would say about 25-30% are getting jobs within 6 months. If you have a lot of other options I would probably pursue those unless you really want to be a dev.
@@Soya8827 Hmm, anyone with skill that is. What's not mentioned is that ChatGPT costs enormous resources which are currently subsidized by openai. How long before the plug is pulled or the price goes up expontentially for using their service? If you mean using AI to help write the code, I don't think we are quite there yet, but AI can help indie developers secure resources and bootstrap to get a tiny MVP out. Once there is user traction, will still need to hire people resources in different areas, programmers, sales, managers, etc.
99% of the listeners on this channel are not experience enough in coding to do a SaaS. There's a lot to SaaS, requires engineering a solid software, marketing and business.
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Thanks, very much for this chat Uncle Stef.
Uplifting, appreciate it.
Always great to watch. Thanks Stefan.
off topic but i really like the layout of your living room, it has a very relaxed feel to it and a good blend of earthy tones while still being modern
Thanks! I stick to simple modern lines but with natural finishes to warm it up. These style choices never go out of style. Look up Eames. My finishes are walnut, Brazilian super white marble and some Carrara marble. I use shades of white and grey for the walls.
@@StefanMischookwill do, thanks for being specific. I was gonna ask but didn’t want to be an online weirdo
@@JC-jz6rx not at all.
like nicolas cage house in matchstick man xd
The capability of taking things easily is the most important quality. This is how you attract clients and it is a skill I can learn from you
This video came to me in a moment when I didn't know what to do. appreciate it.
You are welcome. Glad you found it useful!
Just what I needed to hear this morning. Thanks Stef.
Haven’t listened to uncle stefan in a while!! Happy to listen to your videos again ❤
Hey, uncle Stef, I've been following you for years. Always good advices, but I think this video sums up all of your previous advices pretty well. Thanks.
Yisus uncle stef, I've seen videos of you talking about technologies before, but I didn't appreciate your wisdom until you started spreading the word about the big picture
, and I'm definitely the type of personality that prefers SaaS, so here I go....
I dream that over the years and with success, this comment will be recognized as well as I recognize you for your incredible way of describing the big picture
I worked for a medium-large engineering firm.. we worked on cutting edge microwave tech for the military. The firm sacrificed all the many many clients to take on one very lucrative client... they lost their client.. thus had no work for that company and thus we went bust. The company was formed before WWII... but all that is there now is a small housing estate.
I like this new video style. It's very unique and feels like a conversation.
Thanks for the feedback.
This is exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot!
Glad it was helpful!
wow, so much value in this video. Thanks uncle Stef.
Glad it was helpful!
Congratulations on your amazing content! Your advice about building credibility as a freelancer is spot on and incredibly valuable. I truly appreciate all the counseling you share-it’s practical, insightful, and I’ve taken all your tips to heart. Keep up the great work; you’re making a real difference for freelancers like me!
Glad I’m able to help!
Hi, how do i enter into freelance in real time as QA. I am looking for it as i am not in job for last one year. Could you pls guide
@@saravanakumarb9060 I don't know. I'm in a different field ✌🏻
Solid tips Stef. Thanks.
You’re welcome!
Nicee Uncle Stef!
12:53 you have to careful with averages
Things like salaries and business success don't follow a bell curve, it's a 80/20 curve (because bell curves only really happen when every outcome is independent from each other, that's not the case with careers)
I know. I mentioned that in the video but cut it out because it was getting pretty long. But good point!
Finding the median can be useful that way. You get see how much those top earners pull the average up.
Thank you Stef!😉
It was already in the process of getting automated back in 2016. Although it sucks, hopefully you can get back on your feet soon. I really hope the country can invest into better jobs without college degrees to help people as these changes happen.
Great article
Luv u Steph
I’m focusing on backend web development, specifically Java for that non-tech enterprise stability lol. My personality would enjoy the structure and predictability. I’m certainly a risk averse person lol
Java is always a good bet. Make sure you know Spring boot well.
Im currently building a SaaS me on the front and my buddy doing the back marketing and adoption will probably be our weakness
Get your mvp out as quickly as possible. Don’t get caught up in minutiae…. Just deliver the key functionality and make sure it looks and works good. Once you have users and some buy-in, you can refine and add in the marginal features.
@StefanMischook thanks but I'm not going to 😅 I understand the advice and where it's coming from and you are probably right for most cases but we've spent the best part of this year making our MVP doing weekends and it's just starting to take shape, I think we want to do the opposite and take our time to make it such a great experience you won't want to use anything else, I get that this might make it less likely to succeed, maybe the next one we would follow your advice
What if you go all in and then it bombs?
@@ZenTechnologistnow you see why owners of companies make so much more than general employees. The owner / founder(s) is/are the one(s) taking all the risk.
Uncle Steff, what do you think about Solopreneurs? Also, how do you visualize the current and future market of apps (iOS and android)? Would you say it is still viable? Thank you!
I want your beanie, what is it?
Calvin Klein
@StefanMischook Thanks uncle stef!
Thanks Uncle Stef, maybe a vague question but do you have any advice on how to bring a Saas from a local environment to the next level (hosting, advertising, mistakes to avoid, etc.) ?
Depends on the complexity of the SAAS, but generally just be sure the server versions match. So if you built your SAAS on X version of PHP and MySQL … as an example, but sure the live environment is the same.
@@StefanMischook thank you!
Let's get sassy!
Hi Stefan, just wonder if you have any tips for freelancers that now live overseas (aka digital nomads) but still want to retain or obtain clients from back home instead of locally?
You can network remotely back home. Best strategy is to establish yourself before hitting the road.
Can the outro song be found in youtube music?
No. I created it. Let me know if you want the long version.
@StefanMischook would be cool if you can add it to youtube music so we can listen to it on the go.
Uncle Stef, I love your videos and advice. I’d love to learn web development and be a freelancer, and I hope I can achieve this goal with your courses or even mentoring program. My concern is whether the freelancer web developer career will work well as I’m located in Malaysia. Will your courses and bootcamp help me? Thank you.
100%
New subscriber here. I'm glad youtube recommend this channel on my youtube feed. Can you recommend where (which websites) to find clients? I don't know how to find clients. Also, I don't know if my coding skills are good enough. Is volunteering as a web design of web development a good starting point to become a freelancer?
Volunteering is a great first project!
Thank you for your advice! I will start looking for one. I hope to get my foot in the door.
@@maureenl3036you can do it!
@@StefanMischook Thanks for the encouragement!
get into job stack, do them all, why bother what vs what is better
I want to do freelance as a full stack web developer. Were are the best job opportunities for people living in Africa. It's not easy to find client here to build a portfolio of real world projects that I can show so that I can multiplie my chances to get hired.What are the best advices you can give me?
Start researching. Become an expert in the African tech job market.
the smartest people know when to get an job when to venture out and try creating an saas and when to just get an freelance job, based on the current direction of where of market is going. its never an fixed answer. of course each option has pros and cons but the pros and cons are also not fixed in couple years the pro of saas might be diluted and the con of dev jobs might be all the rage
I’ve been really enjoying your content recently! Numerous points that you’ve been bringing up often align with my own experiences while challenging some of my own opinions - I’ve got to say, it’s super engaging! A quick overview of my background: I started as the sole developer at a VC-backed recruitment startup straight out of university (degree in CS) 2015 - 2018, freelanced part-time while completing a PGDip in AI (2018-2020), ran a digital agency (mainly outsourcing but also employing a couple of people, this was fairly short-lived due to over-reliance on two clients and people not paying, just like you said, 2019 - 2020), then an e-com business (2020-2022). Now I’m studying an MSc in Advanced Computer Science, might start a part-time PhD whilst running some lifestyle businesses and slowly bootstrapping a SaaS over the course of the next six years. In short, I’m an aspiring academic who likes to take risks, if that isn’t antithetical?
One of the questions I keep returning to as I consider your perspective (which I appriciate is distinguished) is whether inexperienced freelancers or junior devs working at start-ups (which I kind of consider to be of similar personality type given they both have tons of autonomy) should be entrusted to make decisions that (potentially) the clients/founders, as well as the devs themselves may not fully understand the consequences of, e.g. architecture, infrasturcture, security, compliance, regulatory considerations, etc. I know these all sound like big enterprise words, but it seems as though the threat landscape may be changing (“move fast and break things” in 2024/25, I’m not too sure about that); and given the data-centric world we currently live in, people are hyper-vigalent when it comes to their privacy and the protection of their personal data. Speaking from experience, I’ve been in a position where I was entrusted to make decisions that ultimately created technical debt later on down the line; and maybe security was more an afterthought, which may have been OKAY in 2015, but is it still OKAY today? I often reflect on whether it was ‘right’ for me to have been in that position, at that time - I don’t think so. Anyway! It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this - ethics in freelancing perhaps? Love the videos, I look forward to the next one!
I will address your questions.
I'd wanna join your community again but i was banned from it. can we reconsider it?
You mean the Discord server?
@@StefanMischook yes
@@StefanMischook and your camera is really really good. what is it?
@@kandycan Canon R8 with the 10-20mm lens.
enterprise-ai AI fixes this. Dev Job vs Freelance vs SAAS
Merci pour la traduction en français si vous pouviez le faire pour d'autres vidéos
who made that couch ?
Roche Bobois
Schools arent really businesses, are they? They are part of the goverment so studieweb is a B2G and B2C?
They are not businesses but are orgs. That said, I supply private academies as well, which are businesses.
B to S, business to swingers. Can't help but crack up on this swingers thing😂
Muito bom❤
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Anyone here, have a project. I badly need a job, I know Ai image generation and text generation, wordpress with elementor / backend of it, photo and video editing, social media management.
Love you uncle from Pakistan
Isn’t coding a dead direction to go in considering we have ChatGPT and similar AI tools?
ChatGPT is pretty bad at coding currently. It needs a lot of guidance, and will only respond to what you ask, without knowing the pitfalls that you're hitting.
Now, I do not see "plenty of developer jobs" especially for code camp grads. I have an entire discord for devs and mentor at two coding camps and I would say about 25-30% are getting jobs within 6 months. If you have a lot of other options I would probably pursue those unless you really want to be a dev.
Not at all.
If coding is dead then saas is also dead. Anyone can build saas with ai. Right?
@@Soya8827 Hmm, anyone with skill that is. What's not mentioned is that ChatGPT costs enormous resources which are currently subsidized by openai. How long before the plug is pulled or the price goes up expontentially for using their service?
If you mean using AI to help write the code, I don't think we are quite there yet, but AI can help indie developers secure resources and bootstrap to get a tiny MVP out. Once there is user traction, will still need to hire people resources in different areas, programmers, sales, managers, etc.
This take is bad and annoying to hear that it hurts.
99% of the listeners on this channel are not experience enough in coding to do a SaaS. There's a lot to SaaS, requires engineering a solid software, marketing and business.
Doubt it, I'm currently building a SaaS
Honestly, the biggest hurdle is that it requires drive and grit. Those are rare qualities.
Use ai to code
@@Soya8827That’s not viable.
@@apricotmadness4850 why