Taught myself how to code and built a software business in 6 months (pharmacist)

[pharmdpharmd]

Clinical pharmacist for ~ 10 years. As COVID hit, my wife stayed home and took care of the house. Found myself with a lot of evening and weekends with nothing to do. So l, decided to use the time productively and learn how to code.

173 days later —> Joyful.gifts: Joy, Everywhere!


I wrote my first line of code on May, 21st and progressively built on that since then.

created a job for my wife and hopefully, a nice passive income on the side.

Happy to answer any questions about the process!

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[rxkrafted]

Good for you for picking up coding but that business idea doesn't sound very good.

 

[Momus]

Don't listen to negative nancy. For every business idea, there is always someone who tells them, "it won't work".

You have nothing to lose. One step away from success.

 

[rxkrafted]

Never said it wouldn't work... Just don't think its a feasible idea to pay $5 to have a stranger pick a gift for someone you know.

 

[JustFillIt]

I’ll bite - if you can pick something for my dad that would be great

 

[pharmdpharmd]

Yea - it’s okay lol. This stuff is not for everybody. There are still dumdums out there telling Elon Musk his cars aren’t feasible despite all what he did -

should I, a random passerby on the internet with my little baby idea be surprised when it happens? Of course, not.

 

[PharmtoCS]

I think we can all agree that staying in pharmacy for the long term won’t work either.

 

[pharmdpharmd]

I think we can all agree that staying in pharmacy for the long term won’t work either.

It’s good to have options!

To be able to build whatever fancies you on a whim. It’s honestly liberating. Like a medieval peasant learning how to read and write.

 

[mentos]

Clinical pharmacist for ~ 10 years. As COVID hit, my wife stayed home and took care of the house. Found myself with a lot of evening and weekends with nothing to do. So l, decided to use the time productively and learn how to code.

173 days later —> Joyful.gifts: Joy, Everywhere!


I wrote my first line of code on May, 21st and progressively built on that since then.

created a job for my wife and hopefully, a nice passive income on the side.

Happy to answer any questions about the process!

Hey that's really cool! Congrats I hope it works out for you. I'm sure it can be a nice little niche for many people. Whoever thought Pinterest and Etsy would be so successful right? You've accomplished way more than I did during this time!

 

[pharmdpharmd]

Hey that's really cool! Congrats I hope it works out for you. I'm sure it can be a nice little niche for many people. Whoever thought Pinterest and Etsy would be so successful right? You've accomplished way more than I did during this time!

Thank you!

 

[ranger99rx]

Congrats! May great ideas will sprout from this experience. Good luck!

 

[thecoolpharmboi]

Where did you go to learn to code?

 

[PharmDBro2017]

Solid website. Props.

 

[pharmdpharmd]

Where did you go to learn to code?

I wrote the step by step here - Basically self-taught