The Ugly Truth Of Coding A Startup With A Day Job

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It took me 4 years to learn how to (properly) code, design, build, promote, grow my app, solo, while having a full-time corporate job.

I finally quit my job, now things will be faster!

In this video, I walk you through my journey as a foreigner in Japan, trying to build my own location-based language exchange app/startup, called SewaYou.

00:00 Introduction
00:40 Quick personal background
02:36 First prototype (MVP)
04:52 Modernizing the web app
09:33 Building the mobile app
10:43 I quit my job
12:12 Visa issue
12:53 Slow organic growth with 9-5 job
14:55 My (viral) post on Reddit
16:59 I quit (again) my job at Microsoft Japan
17:37 Conclusion and what’s next

Check out my startup SewaYou (a location-based language exchange app):

Mentioned videos:
- Why I Quit Microsoft Japan

- How I Got My Permanent Residency In Japan In 4 Years

- My first video after quitting my first job

My post on LinkedIn when I quit

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[theomonfort]

Super interesting ! Can’t wait to see the next steps !

[CodingIsFun]

Great video! Thanks for sharing your experience and good luck with your app! 🚀

[dimsodim]

👌🏻 SewaYou to the moon!your video are getting better and better!

[rakeshraj]

I just started watching your videos and it's really inspiring. Try selling it to educational institutions to get more users. Good luck.

[Mal-wkuq]

Very informative keep up the good work! Where are you originally from?

[yasinnabi]

This is one of the best channels, found it very entertained and worth watching, Subbed and Liked ! a fellow creator...

[quentinsiutkowski]

Thank you for the great video as always!
As you already changed your core technology at least twice, do you foresee more similar moves in the future?

[Dasa]

I love watching all your videos. its give me inspiration to start something am also a foreign engineer in Japan but my job scope is more to electric and recently I get bored with it and after watching your vid I feel like want to do an app startup too..I have a good idea with my passion but I don't know anything about building an apps.

[streetfashiontv]

As a solo developer myself I really appreciate these videos as it's a very lonely journey. So thank you. Also do you think you can make a video on databases and the challenges you faced in terms of maintaining data integrity and any database challenges you faced when your app began to scale.

[AllezMoteur]

Good bro, I see a lot of sweat and tears there but still a great motivation to keep going, thats awesome ! Wish you best luck in your journey !

[kulning]

Un peu le boss quand même ! Keep up the good work