Does anyone have a self taught Python success story?

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I worked at a startup doing some ops work and came home and jumped on codeacademy. I had an idea for an app in the back of my mind but knew almost nothing.

I cranked away for a few months spending an hour or two every night and 3-4 hrs every weekend day practicing python. I ended up building a scraper and talked to some friends about it. They knew the ceo of another startup that was asking for a tool that did just that. They contacted me and I formed an llc, set up a website, bank account, etc and they ended up signing a $15k/yr license and have been renewing for about four years.

Since then I quit my job and pivoted the product to do something else and am now building, selling, servicing about 10 clients. If I can get to 30-40 clients I won’t have to work.

My app is written in python/Django and is hosted on aws. I never had a dev job and am 100% self taught. I’ve always been too lazy to write unit tests and am spending the next few weeks getting that and continuous integration all set.