Ali does freelance web development on getacoder.com as a schoolboy
story · status: told 6× · last event: retold (2021-06-06) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali starts learning to code at 11, wanting to make a text-based game like Kings of Chaos · Ali gets a part-time job as a maths tutor at Kumon at 14
About: getacoder.com
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-16 | told | 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. | Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions 00:05:35 |
| 2019-09-06 | retold | Soon after teaching himself to code, Ali did freelance work online, making a few websites and earning a few hundred pounds. | Life Advice Q&A with my Brother 00:10:01 |
| 2020-04-29 | retold | 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. | Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive 00:04:05 |
| 2020-05-19 | retold | 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. | How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels 00:05:06 |
| 2020-10-04 | retold | 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) | My BIGGEST Rejections in Life 00:06:57 |
| 2021-06-06 | retold | 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) | How I Built 9 Streams of Income By 23 00:01:27 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-05-19 · How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels — Ali sold services for a few years but soon realised he was trading his time for money. — 00:05:35
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: Every year from about 13 to 18, Ali and his friend James tried to set up a new internet business; all five failed, making about 50 pounds in total. — 00:06:04
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: At 18 or 19 Ali took the lessons from those failed internet businesses into SixMed, which did very well. — 00:06:04
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali does not think there is any such thing as a self-made man: he has led a very privileged life with a lucky set of circumstances. — 00:06:33
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — announcement: Ali says he will make a video in a couple of weeks with tips for entrepreneurs. — 00:07:13
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — recommendation: Ali: For anyone interested in getting rich through entrepreneurship, Ali recommends reading The 4-Hour Workweek, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Show Your Work, The Third Door and Shoe Dog. — 00:07:13
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — announcement: Ali says his entrepreneurship video will give his top 10 lessons for entrepreneurs, and he will make it sooner if viewers comment. — 00:07:42
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali has been reading books on setting up businesses for more than 10 years and applied their lessons to his own life. — 00:07:42
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali says he does not have a girlfriend, is single and has barely been in any relationships. — 00:07:42