What I expect to gain from IH?
Hi everyone, I am a software engineer by passion and by job too. I have been working as software engineer since almost 8 years now. I am not a quick learner like many people in the world but if I learn something, I learn it like a professor who can teach around as well. I like to dig in each and every tiny detail of anything I work on.
As an indie hacker, I would like to improve my programming and management skills. I would like to work with some experienced and top of the top programmers (specially Java), to learn to become a really good programmer myself and I would like to work with someone who has good managerial skills so I could learn management as well.
Of course, all this learning will be free and I am not thinking of it as a part time job at all because I don't want to learn and keep getting paid. I want to learn and then get paid with my skills.
Any Indie Hacker who is working on something great and want another hand in programming (specially Java) or management, I am up for the task.
It's good to be here and it's my second day on IH. I would love to participate in this community and will also expect to improve a lot of my skills from my peers here.
Thank you very much everyone.
Welcome @dosdebug, something tells me you're gonna like it here!
@jhberk I am sure of it too.
Interestingly there aren't many Java devs on IH. There are a couple but it's majority JS, Rails, Python, PHP with only a handful Java/.NET
I believed, there are many Java/.NET developers in IH, but they also know how to code in others like Django/Rails/JS
(impossible only me)
Well that's one theory. My point was if you analyze tech stacks of indie hacker projects stunningly few are built with Java/.NET. They are out there (mine included!). It's just the majority isn't using those technologies.
Hmm, okay I think I can try JS as well since it's becoming very popular now a days.
I've started learning Rails lately because I'm finding it slow to develop things in Java using Spring Framework. I've worked with it commercially for many years but when you work on large enterprise systems mainly doing bug fixing and occasionally implementing some complex integration scenarios it is very different skillset than needing to just whip up a quick prototype to test an idea. I'm finding Rails to be nice and quick to get something working i can put in front of someone. Though it's very good to have both in my opinion! I can pick up some consulting work in the Java world on the side that Rails wouldn't really be appropriate for.
I will probably prefer to learn JS over Rails for now. But sure, one must know atleast basics of every tool.