Introduction
First, a few words about me: I am a Data Scientist with 2+ years of commercial experience and 5+ years in coding with Python.
I mostly work with backend and AI. I never built whole projects by myself, but instead I was usually given tasks.
But after some time I started feeling like I had enough knowledge to try to build something of my own. And then I built it.
In contrast to my expectations, it wasn’t extremely hard. Even more, with my co-founder we built it in just 1 month, and it already reached some profit and 1000+ visits without any paid ads.
Now — why would you want to build a startup (if you don’t already)?
There isn’t a single course or project that taught me that much. When you complete a course, you learn some particular skill.
But when you work on the product as a whole, you start to understand the whole development cycle — from design to building to deployment. I polished my existing skills, I learned new ones, and I started to understand how the frontend and the backend actually interact (and how you as a Python developer can write better APIs that are easier to use for your Frontend colleague).
Another reason is a great addition to your resume. Not only the time you worked on your startup counts as commercial working experience (contrary to pet projects), but it also looks great in portfolio (especially if it’s a website that can be visited by some HR).
Finally, the last and the main reason — money. If your startup is a SaaS (Software as a Service), you can technically think of it as a passive income source.
And when you built multiple small SaaS websites, you gain more speed, professionalism and experience — meaning, it takes very little time to build a new product that will make more money.
In this article, I’ll describe my experience building my startup and share some actionable tips and advices.
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