I am a software developer with a full time job. My salary is not enough for me rely completely on job, and I cant take the risk of leaving my job and finding another one, because I live paycheck to paycheck and dont have any savings.
Lurking through buildinpublic and here on reddit, I feel like a loser.
I am comparatively good doing full stack development ( Nodejs, React etc ). Considering my strong and weak points I came up with following projects in 2 categories.
- Build some products My strong points are: I can spend time building projects, but I dont have money to buy servers or to launch them, minimum cost considering database and all would be around $100/month ( Coming from India, this amount is huge for me, Its approx 8000/month )
- Build design templates I can spend time learning about designs since, initial investment here is low ( cost of figma, framer ) and then sell templates which can eventually help me earn sustainable amount of money, But issue is, My design skills are complete zero. For example, I get confused when I want to decide colors, or fonts.
So which path I should spend my time on ?
You can put everything on a cheap server, it’s really enough for a start.
I wrote a book on deployment if you need to learn some details https://deploymentfromscratch.com
And I put together a blog post how to run all on single VPS with Kamal https://nts.strzibny.name/deploying-rails-single-server-kamal/
Good luck!