Self-Taught Coder to 60 Paid Customers in 1 Year

Marie Ng posted about her success on Reddit.

She built this productivity app.

Price is $9 lifetime or $4/month, so she’s not making huge money off it (yet) but very impressive progress nonetheless.

Resources that helped Marie learn to code:

• Udemy: Jonas Schmedtmann’s courses
• YouTube: Wes Bos, Traversy Media, Dev Ed, Academind, Net Ninja, Web Dev Simplified
• Websites: JavaScript30, freeCodeCamp, Google, Stack Overflow

Marie also writes how she found her first customers:

Got my first customers by building in public. Building in public also helps to keep me accountable. To do this I mostly posted on Twitter, just low quality progress videos (nothing fancy) and design screenshots. You can follow and see history on Twitter here.

Two related things:

• Today this guy open sourced the code that earned him $500k
• Pat Walls is building a course in public with $10k in presales so far