Dec. 8, 2024 | Demir Antay

Quitting Linkedin And The Job Market

Hello, so no one is hiring junior-mid developers anymore. Even if you get to the interviews, and pass a couple of stages you are swimming such an uphill river that it almost becomes impossible.

I mean not only that I am competing with other mid-junior people you are also competing with a massive amount of senior developers who are extremely competent at what they do because of the mass layoffs of the industry.

I have applied to nearly 5000 job postings on LinkedIn and I am kinda done.

I got to make a living somehow, for the past 1 year I have been freelancing with an agency model and even though it pays, it is not as predictable as I want it to be.

Plus I hate that the freelancing/agency business model is based on sales and cold outreach instead of building cool products.

So therefore, I am pivoting to an “indie startup” business model where I will try to have an idea, ship it fast, and have a viral launch (with producthunt, etc..) and if it does not find PMF I will not add many features. It will only have a couple of features.

I will also try to document my journey along the way. So that with every startup I do not start from zero and have an audience to fall back on and also share my “startup lessons” with them.

I am changing course

The things that I will be implementing from now on:

• I am nuking all of my social media contacts, I am gonna start from scratch and create value only for people who are interested or in the startup world.

• I will have a boilerplate app where I can push my ideas quickly with CI/CD pipelines. Setting up VPS, stripe connections, domains, and the basic auth apps in any framework is just a hassle to do every single time.

• Avoid feature bloat at all costs, only have 1-2 features MAX. If those 2 do not fix the problem or create any value and you do not get paid for it, do not iterate it. Just move on.

• I am not gonna spend any meaningless time on VC funding .. etc. It is just pointless.

• I will not work in a 9-5 office onsite setting anymore, it is just a bunch of managers thinking they are being productive while doing nothing. If they don’t adapt to the new age they will become obsolete.

• Only work 4 hours (Deep Work session every day) so that I actually prioritize instead of working on shallow tasks. ++ It lets me work every day instead of an outdated 5-day schedule made by 1930’s barons.

• I will try to push one startup app every month like
  @marc_louvion @levelsio (in X)

Thank you for reading, have a nice day.
-Demir