Self-taught Coder, $1 Million Business

Andrew Burnett-Thompson details how he taught himself to code and started a software business in his spare time.

The business is SciChart. Andrew would get up early and work on it before his day job – while his wife and baby slept – and during his daily train commute.

He had his MVP built in ~5 months and it pulled in $173,000 the first year. In year five the business did $1,251,778 in revenue 🚀

Andrew learned to code the same way he built his business: with small consistent efforts.

If you improve by 1% a day, after 365-days you have gained +3,704% or 37x. Improvements compound over time leading to bigger and bigger gains over time

I heard about Andrew’s story in Stop Asking Questions – great book, been sharing insights from that on Twitter – and there’s a popular Mixergy interview to go along with it.