Pro Code Mentoring
MaaS! Me as a service. Coding + Career Mentor
I am shutting this down. There isn't much to shut down, it is just a website. I want to focus on other things, things that can scale, especially things that are not bottle-necked by the number of hours I have spare. I enjoyed doing this though and learned a lot from the process.
Sometimes the MVP is nothing at all! I just signed up for mentoring sites offering hourly rates and found gigs. Kept applying for everything I can do and sending messages that are friendly and show my skills.
I also knocked up a landing page with a form using Netlify and home made CSS/HTML as I have a thing now for not using frameworks or site generators (will explain or argue with people about that later). Anyway got a lead from this just posting around on Reddit.
Next step is to autopost to Reddit at a frequency allowed by the subs to bring a trickle of business in that I need for a side gig.
Longer term plan is to work harder on the better clients and get more work from them, and also to discover problems that I can solve in a more SaaSy way rather than MaaS (Me As A Service).
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What mentoring site did you sign up to?
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Apologies, very late but just saw this: mentorcruise.com was the one I had the most luck with. codementor.io worked well too but there is a lot of 'chasing work' required there, and it's a mix of mentoring and actual coding work.
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( Landing page is https://procodementoring.com )
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Hi Martin, what are some things you learned??
I gained some tacit experience in talking to people I don’t know and trying to help them. Learned about my own limits and even learned some tech stuff from my mentors.
Appreciate the response!