getacoder.com

company · in 23 sources (2019–2025)

Sources by year: 2019: 2 · 2020: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2025: 3

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What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2025-02-25 · How to finally start your first business in 2026 — Ali's first business was freelance web design at about 13; next a pyramid multi-level marketing website at 14 or 15; then private tutoring making about $100 a week. — 00:17:05
2025-07-16 · How I Made My First Dollar Online At 13 — Ali: At 13 Ali taught himself HTML, CSS and JavaScript after school because he thought building websites would be cool, and made his own personal websites. — 00:00:00
- Ali's first money online came at 13 when a friend's dad paid him 10 pounds in cash for a personal website styled like a newspaper, which Ali built over a weekend with HTML tables and the Times font. — 00:00:21
- After the 10 pounds, Ali wondered whether others would pay him to design websites and found the freelance platform getacoder.com, where at 13 he bid $5 or $10 on web design projects to undercut cheap Indian web design companies. — 00:00:50
- Ali got a handful of projects on getacoder.com and stayed on it for about five years, from 13 to 18, making his first few hundred dollars on the internet from tiny freelance web design jobs. — 00:01:13
…and 2 statements more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

2024-04-19 · I Helped My Subscribers Fix Their Productivity — Ali says that for the last 17 or so years he has tinkered with making money online: websites and private tutoring from 13 to 18, a company helping people get into medical school from 18 to 23, and his YouTube channel at 24. — 00:21:48
2024-04-30 · How to 10x Your Income - The 4 Ladders of Wealth — Ali: At around 12 Ali discovered he could make money online by offering services: he learned to make websites and advertised on freelance platforms at about $10 an hour. — 00:07:00
2024-06-21 · 5 High Income Skills for Students to Learn in 2026 — Ali: When Ali first dabbled with web design, around 2008 and 2009, it was a fairly low-income skill for him: he says he was dumb to advertise himself on freelance websites, where people wanted work for $5 or $10, so that is what he charged. — 00:25:21
2024-07-09 · If I Wanted to Make $10,000 as a Student, I'd Do This — Ali: At 18 Ali would have made the money from website design and development, which he had done in his spare time after school since the age of 13; he says most people are not like that. — 00:04:44

2023-01-26 · 7 Side Hustles Ideas to Make $1000/Month — Ali: At 13, while at school, Ali did freelance web design in the evenings and at weekends for small businesses he met on a freelance website, making his first several hundred dollars online. — 00:14:56
2023-08-11 · If I Wanted to Be a Millionaire Before 30, I'd Do This — Ali: At 13 Ali started his first service business as a freelance web designer, soon calling himself a web design agency, marketing it on getacoder.com and charging $5 or $10 here and there. — 00:09:56
- At 13 Ali could not wait to get home from school to check his getacoder.com profile; for his first $5 gig he opened a PayPal account, lying about his age since the minimum was 18. — 00:19:01
2023-09-15 · 6 Side Hustles Students Can Start in 2026 — Ali's first side hustle was web design, which he started at 13 and did for about six years; it made him his first few hundred dollars on the internet. — 00:02:26
2023-11-24 · 7 Mistakes Students Make Every Year — Ali: At school Ali taught himself web design and web development. — 00:08:21

2022-02-28 · 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years — Ali: At about 14 Ali took on two big web design projects paying about $300 each; they took around three years, leaving him an hourly rate far below flipping burgers at McDonald's. — 00:13:55
- When Ali took on the web design projects he thought only about the absolute income and did not factor in the hundreds of hours of work. — 00:14:58
2022-04-29 · How to Invest as a Teenager — Ali: When he was younger Ali had a little business doing web design and web development for small businesses, charging about $5 an hour to undercut the market. — 00:15:27
- Looking back on his web design work from 12 to 18, Ali remembers not the money but the excitement of rushing home from school to see whether anyone had hired him, learn more PHP or tinker with an online game he was building. — 00:20:20
2022-08-26 · 27 Critical Apps That Shaped My Life — Ali: From 13 Ali built his own website projects as side hustles at school and worked as a freelance web developer for small businesses, making five or ten dollars here and there. — 00:01:57
…and 1 statement more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

2021-04-22 · The 4 Hobbies that Improved my Life — Ali: As a teenager, web development was the main source of excitement in Ali's life, and he started bidding for freelance web design projects to make money on the internet. — 00:01:41
2021-06-06 · How I Built 9 Streams of Income By 23 — Ali: Between 13 and 17, through getacoder.com, Ali did a handful of coding projects, some taking ages at a very low hourly rate, and made about $1,000 in total, a lot of money to him then. (hedged) — 00:01:27
2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali says his income is no get-rich-quick scheme: he has been trying to make money online since he made websites as a freelancer at 13, had many failures, and his first business succeeded about seven years later, around 20. — 00:00:58

2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali started his entrepreneurial journey at about 12, teaching himself to code from W3Schools tutorials and freelancing on rentacoder.com, undercutting the market at $5 a project. — 00:04:05
2020-05-19 · How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels — Ali got his start on getacoder.com, bidding $5 or $10 on web design and development projects at 12 or 13 to undercut everyone else. — 00:05:06
- Ali sold services for a few years but soon realised he was trading his time for money. — 00:05:35
2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali: On freelance websites such as Getacoder, Ali applied to at least 100, maybe 200 projects, was rejected from about 95% and did only five or ten projects in five years. (hedged) — 00:06:57
…and 1 statement more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali thinks that upbringing gave him and his brother an entrepreneurial mindset: from about 12 he taught himself to code and made websites for businesses and individuals for money. — 00:05:35
2019-09-06 · Life Advice Q&A with my Brother — Ali: Soon after teaching himself to code, Ali did freelance work online, making a few websites and earning a few hundred pounds. — 00:10:01