DEV Community

Discussion on: What's the story behind your first money made with software?

Collapse
 
valmiremini profile image
valmiremini • Edited

I fell in love since i saw a computer for the first time in my life. When i was about 12 old (1999) i had a teacher (my main teacher in school ) he was maintaining and repairing computers for free in the community. He teach me anything i could ask in severals years, one of those questions was, what is this Visual Basic 6? About 7 years ago i started as a 1st level agent for one of the biggest telecommunication company in Switzerland. Literally during my training i programmed a tool, in this 15 year old visual basic 6 studio for my self, because i thought it was better then the favorite links in my browser for all the tools i needed to do my job. It had a special vertical Form factor with buttons that opened the tools in de default browser and stayed on the front of all application, i named webremote. After my training in my second week at that job, the other agents started to ask me where they could get this tool. Accidentally i got in a little intern contest and won the 200.- Swiss franks plus 40h for my work that i could cash out. I have no CS degree or such a technical/engineering stuff, i was never good at school, but i love to create things in tech. Now i am working at the same company as java developer, i think I'm quite comfortable in coding now. In this severals years i learned LAMP Stack including Laravel, OOP, bootstrap, some how javascript a bit of react and angular, i am currently learning phoenix (elixir) now and listing at the same time to #indiehacker, jason cohen from WP engine and Patrick McKenzie. It is also my first comment ever on any platform. thanks for reading.