I appreciate your tenacity and consistency. You motivate me!

Thank you! Like you I was a Product Manager and and eight years ago I was a Product Manager who switched to iOS development. I have had success working for others, but I’m now working on developing my first app and your insights have been very helpful. It is hard and sometimes knowing that others have had success as indie developers. Again thank you.

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Good luck lunching you app! 🤞

of course we watched til the end. keep on rocking buddy 👍

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Awesome thank you!

Very interesting video Aivars. You should do more such things :)

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Good to know.

Great point, I am doing actually the same: 1. Consulting - better compensation and usage of money as a company, but more risk. 2. Own product on a niche market 3. And content creation for developing a network and media creation skill. I like your vision of combining it to have multiple source of revenue and protect you life style.

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Right, consulting is also better money management because you can optimise tax and do some business expense coverage. Risks are always here, layoffs in IT opened eyes on that to those who had "stable jobs" so far as well. I prefer to be consultant and see full picture of risks and benefits.

@AlexSkobe

4 ай бұрын

@@AivarsMeijers Not sure about market at your place, but in Sweden the consultant market shrinks even a bit faster then 'stable jobs'. Now it's recovering, but still tricky to find an interesting assignment, and with a long-terms. I guess 'Consultant setup' is great if you have a long-term relationship with your client. But I am completely agree that consultant are more aware of a market supply/demand.

@non7sens

4 ай бұрын

​@@AivarsMeijers Do you have a video about comparing consulting vs regular job net income? I did some research about B2B contract options and realized that taxation in Latvia cuts like 40% of the income..

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

@@non7sens No, I don't have, but it is relatively easy to compare. So, you have to pay minimum salary for yourself + taxes for it. Business expenses, like computers, office, car, etc. are write off, so no tax fo that. All the rest you can pay out in dividends and that is 20% tax on that.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. Very helpful!

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Long video = hard work! 😅 Enjoying them as usual. 🙏

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

❤ from 🇮🇳... You are doing really great work by sharing your knowledge... I was finding kind of this channel who sharing real and practical knowledge. thank you

I like your app. I have noticed an error i know Twitch may not be very relevent to you but through Setting / Contacts / Twitch is not very accessible because of the tab bar you may need to add padding(.bottom) ? Hope this helps

Consulting is good $$. The downside is you only get paid for the hours. Vacation, sickness etc. All cost.

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Well, depends on contract you agree on. I have vacation days included in mine and can call sick day if needed.

yeah...thank you

Great video, Aivars! Would be great to understand your opinion on the differences between Full remote development (maybe for a local company) vs Freelance? Is it the same?

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

As a full time developer you are getting more benefits. Benefits could be - office space, gear for work, vacation days, education, more senior devs around to learn from, stock options, etc. As a freelancer or consultant you usually jumping in to work on limited scope project and for short time. Usually consultants earn more $ than FT dev working on the same project for the same company, but getting 0 benefits.

Hi Aivars, very interesting video as always, how do you manage urgent bugs to fix for a client as a freelancer? Are you always available in these situations even on weekends, or even if even the most urgent bug has to wait until Monday to be fixed?

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Depends on project. On the current one we have virtual office hours and generally I'm offline at nights and on weekends, so I'm just not available and do not work on weekends.

Hello Aivars. Really enjoying your content. I have two quick questions, if you have time to answer... How do you keep your fingers, hands, and wrists healthy, avoiding issues like carpel tunnel, etc? Second question, which chair do you use? It looks like a Herman Miller Embody? Keep up the great work and videos!

Hey Aivars - been loving your videos. Was curious of your opinion. As a 37 year old coming from another industry (media) with a non-CS bachelors - self teaching himself how to code and building projects. If I can get my skills up there - is there any hope of having thriving career? Or at 37 is there not enough runway age wise to build up to those higher salaries?

Thank you very much for this video, just what I was looking for, I am a PM about navigating to building my app, but I need you to share more enlightenment on marketing your app or promoting your consulting agency, how have you been able to market your app as a solo entrepreneur… in general if you can share more about tech sales base on your experiences that will be awesome! Thank you very much bro

Greate video. Curious to know what type of consulting do you do? Do you have to be senior level to get consulting roles?

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Consulting is just fancy ford for a bit more expensive freelancing, but yes, bigger and more $ projects means more senior developer skills.

😀Watched till the end

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙌 This wasn't an easy one to sit through 😅

@giogio9854

4 ай бұрын

Actually no prob. Was watching and listening to it while I was coding 🙂@@AivarsMeijers

Another great video! But damn, I find creating content so difficult. I overthink it way too much and am always afraid I say something stupid that will turn people off. I am already freelancing though and looking to build my own stuff soon. Finding a good idea is the hard part there.

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

KZread imo is the hardest and most time consuming way to create content. Twitter is good enough to start. Idea part is hard, but you if you have audience, you can build product for them.

@agilix_

4 ай бұрын

@@AivarsMeijers Well, I would not start with YT, I'd indeed start with Twitter and a blog or something but still, overthinking is a PITA

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

@@agilix_ keep in mind that almost noone will see your first posts/videos anyway. You can delete them later if you really will hate them, but I still have all I published even can't watch my old videos. When you will start posting you should watch for signals to see what do not work at all and what works and then you will see what to do next.

👍 I love this kind of videos! great job! Right now I'm doing 2 part time freelance work and personal apps in free time 🚀. Btw, I looked for some good hourly rate gigs for at least +6 months but I didn't find any. The market is a little bit low right now from my perspective (as a mobile android native and flutter dev).

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙌 Yeah , market is a bit challenging right now. I'm not looking much around because focusing on content and my own apps, but believe it could be hard to find good gig.

Hi Aviars, thank you for the content and your thoughts! Regarding the motorcycle riding: I am in similar situation (3 kids). My wife is ok that i ride on small tracks. Not happy, but being O.K… just an idea.

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

That's my plan as well. I'm looking to buy scrambler or medium size ADV bike and ride in forests and small roads. Dual sport could be an option as well, I was looking on Honda crf 300 rally, but that would be very sad ride every time I decide to get out from forest :)

@lajos108

4 ай бұрын

@@AivarsMeijers Great to hear! Enjoy!

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bro de que pais eres?

I have a client who wants to convert his website into iOS/Android app. It can be a native app or PWA what is your opinion and give advice me to do.... Help me...

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

The answer always is - it depends on many details, but check the status and future plans for PWA support on iOS www.macrumors.com/2024/02/15/ios-17-4-web-apps-removed-apple/

@IruAndOpa

4 ай бұрын

@Meijers Thank you so much. I had same concern. 🥰 Thank you so much for your time.

👍of course we watch until the end :D

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

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@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

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Спасибо тебе за, как всегда, крутое видео! Как думаешь, может ли программист уровня джуниор+ написать приложение, приносящее доход? Понятное дело, что многое зависит от идее приложения, но вот думаю стоит ли сейчас этим заниматься или пока рано и нужно набираться опыта

Самая лучшая схема успеха это цифровой продукт за подписку (безлимитное масштабирование и подписка - это авансовые платежи, которые практически недостижимы в реальном секторе).

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Yes, 100% agree. That's why all of my apps has subscription based monetisation.

@vladimirmoor

4 ай бұрын

There is one thing about this - when you create a subscription you have to give something in return each month. It turns out that you can't not update the product or add features, etc. So it starts to resemble a regular job but inside the product. As soon as you stop - the product starts to stagnate and you lose money. I'm not talking about extraordinary cases when you find a super idea and overnight get a million users - such ideas are quickly copied and you can't compete with big teams alone.

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

​@@vladimirmoor You are right, subscription is not set and forget. I don't think any business will run without work forever. You can automate businesses to make revenue passive and that is doable with software as well, but someone still should code and update apps. Than can be you as a solopreneur (my choice) or team you can hire. Side note on different opinions about subscription based pricing. Most extreme I heard coming form developers - if your app don't have running costs like server costs or AI tokens, this should not be subscription product. I strongly disagree, $5 or even $100/m server on DO is nothing comparing with development costs of the app. So, IMO if your app getting regular updates, subscription based pricing is reasonable. "something in return each month" is value that user is getting from the app. Those shouldn't be some new updates, every single month, but if user will not receive anything in return subscription will be canceled.

Hello Aivars. Nice channel. I'm looking for a iOS developer to create a basic cosmology app for the Apple Vision Pro. Would be interested in such a project?

@AivarsMeijers

3 ай бұрын

Hi. Currently I don't have capacity to jump on new project.

@in2minutesorless64

3 ай бұрын

@@AivarsMeijersThank you very much for replying. I've just discovered your channel and enjoy the videos. I've subscribed. All the best on your journey!

I am a geography teacher by education, I worked in my occupation for 3 years, I want to change my profession and study to be a web developer, should I know math or something similar? And is it relevant now? I’m 25 years old man😁

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

I'm switched to programming in very late 30s, so you have plenty of time :) In web development or mobile development you will not need anything more than basic math. Sure you can find cases where you could use some advanced math, but that is way below regular development tasks that 90% of web or mobile developers are working on.

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Hey Aivars, how are? Lemme put my question under your latest video, have ever used Core ML in your apps? Or maybe thought about that? I believe, cool if you maybe make a video about Core ML. Thank you.

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Aha, see it now :) I built on Core ML test project and was thinking about app to recognise mushrooms, but didn't wan't to be responsible for any possible errors so didn't build it.

@ikhalizov

4 ай бұрын

@@AivarsMeijers Cool, mushrooms)

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How to become rich if you're not smart: Me: puts life savings in cat coin

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

:D Hodl!

I wanna hear more about how the soviet union era you were born in. My parents were in communist Romania before '89 revolution.

wallpaper ?

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Yes

@chickenrei3876

4 ай бұрын

Where I can find the Mac wallpaper?

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

@@chickenrei3876 That is standard macOS walpaper, I didn't download anything extra.

@chickenrei3876

4 ай бұрын

What is the name ?

Is there any way I can do internship under you 😊

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

No, I'm solo for now. Only person I hired is accountant

@assassincyber

4 ай бұрын

Okay thanks sir

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@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

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All day in a life programmers 😂😂😂

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

But that is true ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are you living in Ukraine?

@magog6852

4 ай бұрын

it literally says latvia 2 seconds in

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

No, Latvia.

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

@@magog6852 Yeah, indeed :)

That's a lot of hours wasted in the morning... You could be done with your coding by gym time. If you're groggy in the morning a cleaner diet can help.

@AivarsMeijers

4 ай бұрын

Depends on priorities. I wanted to fix my back with exercises and record this video for you. Sure I could code at 6:30 as soon I'm back from dog walk or even faster if I would get rid of dog :) I'm not doing everything in my life is most effective way and this youtube channel is great example for that. To be frank from efficiency, revenue or any other point of views that just dosen't make sense to spend time creating videos, but I like this hobby and it is helpful for others.

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