My First Freelance Experience (as a software developer) 

Your videos have actually helped me learned how to code, clean code and a great freelancer. I'm Samuel from Nigeria and during this Covid-19 I've made close to $10,000 and I'm happy.

Recently found your channel. I as a father and being 32 and has just started studying programming, i really find hope that i actually can actually make this. Alot at risk for me, i stopped working. went fulltime school. Sometimes i get tiny bit of panic. Usually i head over to this channel then so i can view stuff from a realistic PoV. Keep the vlogs up and il keep watching :)

My first freelance job opened my eyes to the possibilities. I was paid $300 for 3 hours of my time and since then I have had freelance gigs that pay very well. If I recall the highest amount so far has been $1,000 for about 4 hours of my time.

The part where you talk about being honest about your qualification is super important and something all new developers should think about when having interviews for jobs or even in their application. Im in the beginning of my career and have during this past year been to several interviews, and during this time ive learnt that it is very important to be honest about you being new to this and what you know or do not know, and the people you are applying to do appreciate the honesty alot, and in the end there will be that one company that actually wants to give you a chance and kinda wants to invest in you which then leads you to be able to work at the same time as you still learn! :).

Man your videos just feel genuine. Like you're not trying to put on a show but just sharing your experiences. Quite refreshing

As a software engineer and a small youtuber, I can absolutely relate!! Thanks so much for sharing your experiences 🙏

Man flexing his download speeds on us

Dude are a machine or something 😂?! Everyday I'm on RU-vid I see a new upload from few min/h ago! Mashallah. Keep it up ✨👏

every video everyday just keeps getting better, Kalle.

This video gave me a lot of value ! I am in a similar position where I have a big codebase to deal with in my job. I was overwhelmed but after watching your video I got motivation to figure it out 😁

Hey Kalle, very nice video like always! I would like to see a kind of setup tour. Keep going!

Thanks for sharing Kalle! I really inspired by your story. I'm a freelance-coding-guy-who-dont-know-what-to-do-next right now, and somehow I feel very connected to your story. Please keep posting. I have my bells ringing on you.

Thanks for sharing and being open about your experience!

back at it again, honestly kalle keep doing you, good work again! ima sit back n drink my coffee n be more productive.

I love the fact that everyday after school i am surtain heres a video, kee it up loving the content

respect the constant uploads! keep it up :)

The daily uploads are really nice. Keep it up!!

Kalle i love your thoughts on openness and honesty! +1 on that :)

Hey Kalle Love the daily uploads :)

As always, great video.🙌🏾

Thank you very much from sharing. I'm studying cs at college and also learning dart/flutter to begin my mobile developer journey. Cheers from Venezuela

Do more of these please! I would like to start free lancing sometime in the future.

Awesome video man, thanks for sharing!

Very nice video and I really like the lighting and colour grading of the editing.

Whenever, I dont feel motivated to code, I always come to this channel for motivation.

WoW Thats a lot of content in a short amount of time. Keep it up Kalle!

It seems link you are the Cayse Neistat of programming.

I enjoy your channel. You're a good content provider and I'm glad that you chose your health over the startup. You could have worked at night, synced your time with that of the operation, but you have too much potential than to get burnt out on a startup. Especially, without an equity postiion. Generally speaking, startups can be lucrative (or, not) if you're willing to do what it takes, but it's probably best to know what one's work/life/wealth goals are; remaining careful to be cognizant of adjustments. Kalle, you touched on learning the "Domain knowledge" of the business. Learning it's way of doing things, it's operations, it's profitability, it's politics, etc., AND coding can be daunting initially. Smart businesses understand this...to a degree.

Your videos are always getting better and better ❤️

so this is where ur confidence comes from when it comes to programming :D it was very motivational story for me and im sure for everybody who listened this

I am going thru the same phase right now.... thanks for sharing your experience, it helped me a lot

Thank you for sharing your experience. I am a self taught Angular developer and I can relate very much with what you felt. I work as electronics technician for 10 years now. I like it but I am bored of this after 10 years. The only reason that I have not searched any dev job is because of the fear of not being good enough. Thank you! Really!

Love your channel man 👌

Nice video !! could u do one "what's on my PC" ? good rythm btw, keep crushing it !

Love your honesty mate! 👍😁

I liked the ramble dude!

What is the download speed am on 144p I can't see the numbers

I work at a startup and I hundred percent deal with imposter syndrome every day! I think that comes with the job lol. Speaking for myself, being a programmer you feel like you don't ever know everything. It's a good thing because there's always something new to learn, but also can be negative because you never feel like you can reach the endgame of programming knowledge. So don't worry you're not alone!

Mom learning coding since May 2020 here 😆 hopefully 1 day I can get into freelancing. Your videos are great with lots of realitic perspectives 👍

My favourite youtube channal right now. I cant skip a video

Kalle is getting more videos up in a day than number of lines of code that I can write in a day😭 😋😁

That sounds more like employment, not freelance, though.

Very best video yet.:)

this is so relatable the first time i got a project i felt like this as well on my first professsional project

I swear every day’s video is exactly what I’ve been thinking about.

love your videos

Kalle is is friendly on RU-vid. If I saw Kalle and I never have seen him before I would just think about him as an strict body builder man and would probably leave the way for him😂 and yeah never think of messing with him!😅

Nice of you to share your experience

Oh Kalle, that’s so mature and so honest to say that you feel under qualified and I know that feeling, it’s terrible. 4 years ago I joint a new startup too, and I was their first ever engineer on their previous startup. But here they were on it for 3 years already and I was tasked to implemented an architecture that already had product choices made that didn’t work. And I went to their CIO and said: “Vincent I don’t feel like I can make a difference I’m stuck in architectural choices and I think I may be the wrong guy. So I would hand in my contract and not bill these first two weeks.” And he was like: “Hell no! I won’t accept your resignation, Walter (the director) has praised you to the skies. You will sit with the architect and agree to remove these product choices and you will find solutions that work within the architecture. Architects shouldn’t make product choices!” But at least I knew I was delivering to the standard that they were paying. Honesty is best.

Please keep uploading every single day ♥️♥️↗️

Karl:Finds 100 Mbps speed slow. Me: Watching video in 2 Mbps at 144p

smooth edits, inspiring content.. great job man honestly. I just have a comment on the internet speed .. I have a speed of 3mbps HAHA

Thank you bro for your help

love the video

Have you done a video explaining about how you got into freelancing and finding these jobs?

Yo bro if possible make a video on how to code using AI like GPT-3 and SketchAdapt

Like your videos, Vietnamese people watched, is very useful.

Is clean code friday broken is it just for me. I'm not getting the emails even tho ive signed up for nearly a month. And also the link goes to a website thats not secure??

RU-vid really knows what to recommend. I'm planning to become a software developer and my uni starts in January.

Thanks for the great video Kalle! How would you recommend getting in to freelancing?

1) Well, don't have personal experience in startups but heard from other people that they expect to see very experienced devs to do almost all engineering stuff - as resources are limited. 2) For me, personally, one of the biggest pros of working as a dev in office is clear separation between work and non-working activities. Face-to-face networking is also very important part as well.

How did you learn speaking English? Love your fluency!

kalle is literally on fire if he was a javascript frame work he would be the fastest

Thank you for the positive feedback as relates to your experience as freelancer.

I am exactly in the same position as you were. You just read my mind.

"Building apps for myself" series will be interesting

I like the way you do your videos. The first part is really nice when you share something from your day and the rest of the video is very inspiring. Keep do this. Btw, you re using Mac && Windows ? :D Another question that I have, is about you and Facebook seen that you dont have one, im curious why.

Thanks for the heads up...

Everything made sense bro... I joined an organisation last year fresh out of college with Python Basics as my Tech Stack😂. I took a month for simple task in beginning. Now, I do the similar thing in a day.. I thought I should be an EXPERT to do Freelancing. But u have have given me some hope.✌️ Will definitely try that.. You have gr8 videos but the music in the end is next level😜

Hi Hallden, I was wondering how long did it take for you to learn flutter and Dart? Did you learn while creating your Apps? Or did you learn before using flutter and took it step by step? I don't come from Java background BUT I already have 1 year of JavaScript which isn't strongly typed BUT I have strong fundamental skills in JavaScript, and I did a bit of React Native for mobile. I and trying to get an idea if Dart and flutter is hard to learn in comparison to JavaScript or even something like Java? With Dart do you find yourself writing a lot of code like Java? Or is it more like Kotlin where it is strongly typed but more functional and not OOP? I am wondering if it is worth my time or not? Thanks, Hallden I appreciate your videos.

A video on how to find good freelance jobs.

thanks for sharing

You are not click bait and thank you for that

I am in a same situation in my company working with 2 devops engineer but it is good to learn by refactoring code & building new features in someone's code base. Also I dont have all info about app architecture

Hey kalle i had a doubts in choosing laptop but you cleared everything in ( what is the best laptop for software development) Video. Expect one thing *GPU*. do we need dedicated GPU for coding or is integrated graphics is enough. If Anyone know Please give the your suggestion.....

have you had any issues with the xps? thinking of getting it myself

It's like you are telling my story..!

I've started playing around with Python, but when I want it to tell me the time, it comes up with symtax errors about last call, any advice ?

I have a question about this freelancing and going to daily jod. What do you recommend for me do to earn money do jod or freelancing?. I love to work in home, do traveling, be free , be with my family, do my studies.

Watching your video for the first time

The man is spitting out videos RAPIDFIRE

What router or hardware is that ?? Is something available only in your area or what's behind that internet speed upgrade ??

Went to work at a tech support shop and they wanted me to write code too. Problem was is that the project was to recreate a membership database but it made me feel overwhelmed and one of the bosses many times would come and pair program with me. In the end I just felt too frustrated and ended up doing straight tech support. I'm currently working on 2 different hobby projects. I think im happier this way 😅😅

You should check out: Wayne Jackson Jr. - freelance programming video.

Awesome work, how are you able to upload so many videos a week? Do you even sleep

hello kalle I want to work as a freelancer, I just started writing code, how can I develop this and get a job as a freelancer?

When you begin in a new company you always feel like a noob, since you don't know the code and you are under pressure because you think about the expectation that the company has about you....

Hey Kalle, Did you change your ISP or just the router?

Can you make full video how to hack wifi with using phone please

How do you know youre ready to start freelancing? Im not sure if ready for the task or not

Would you say being a freelance backend developer is more successful then a front end?

heart to heart

In Giza, Egypt it's 500! 500kb 😢

You dropped of your college degree to freelance.. god you're a genius.. you did the thing most of us should have done.

Which laptop is the best for software engineering and what specs are the best to use for software engineering

what was that silicon valley preview of the video?

What programming languages do you know?

I'm guessing you cant let us know what that app was then?

what language should i learn to do full time freelance?

Please make a video advice on getting freelance jobs or internships