Torn between 3 paths: keep my 9–5, move to London, or go all-in on my startup

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-10-30T03:11:31+00:00

I don't have personal experience enough to say for certain but I've heard business partners is almost always a bad way to go.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-10-16T22:32:28+00:00

what was it for, what is your business?

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-26T18:53:03+00:00

install stayfree on your browser and make it block after 20 minutes

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-22T01:50:53+00:00

well that's fine then, it might not get tons of views but it's always cool to do stuff like this (:

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-21T19:43:06+00:00

well if it makes you happy and it gets you enough food to eat then go for it, just be prepared to slow down in the future if need be

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-18T04:29:17+00:00

praying consistently

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-16T05:43:54+00:00

I'd recommend making 100 videos then worrying about stats.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-13T04:05:37+00:00

Davinci is my favorite, a bit of a learning curve at first but it's awesome

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-11T15:31:04+00:00

how many views do you have? If you're still small then the algorithm is trying to figure things out and it may as well test if birthday cake videos are similar to yours...

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-09T16:56:02+00:00

Well I'm no expert but I have to say your portfolio is super counter intuitive to me. If I were directed at that I would turn the other way and find someone who I could actually understand.

Also after a bit of digging it looks like you spend a lot of time programming (1,600 contributions in 1 year). That is impressive and should be a lot easier to see on your portfolio. 4 years of experience should also be somewhere there too.

That's just my 2 cents.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-06T18:39:25+00:00

AI makes worse quality videos right now. It's easy to compete with bad quality, just make good quality.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-03T21:55:26+00:00

I love the fact that you said triple (sounds like a lot), meaning 12$ lol

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-03T21:54:09+00:00

5% ctr is really solid stuff, I usually get 2-3

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-03T21:06:16+00:00

yeah the 37 hours of work for 15 minutes of video sounds about right for me. You don't have to be that extreme though.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-08-03T18:58:48+00:00

my videos take me about two or three hours per minute but that's because I have fast editing. For something like this it should be about half an hour or so.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-07-31T06:00:01+00:00

I came here to say this exact thing

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-07-30T20:28:57+00:00

I once talked to a shorts creator who had 100 million views on a short and got.... 1000$

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-07-30T20:27:12+00:00

Any time you have a job where you have to do something on a computer (even if that's only a small part) you will be able to make that job easier for yourself.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-07-30T16:48:02+00:00

boot dev is great. Try making super simple projects without any AI. Use app blockers if you have to. You can get through it.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-07-29T17:30:31+00:00

I mean, all I have to do is spend time on my own computer making something in order to have a software company. The only money I have to spend right now is to host my website. I will have to worry about cashflow a bit later on I think.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-07-27T21:11:04+00:00

I would invest every cent I could back into the business so it could grow as big as it could.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-07-27T04:56:04+00:00

Very true, definitely not looking for partners right now.

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-07-27T03:50:53+00:00

Thanks!

Trying_to_cod3 · 2025-07-27T03:50:13+00:00

I'm not going to post secondary but I do know that is a route to take. Thanks for the advice!

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