Can you give me some tips on self employment? In general where do I start from? Currently I'm taking a break from work and would really love to be self employed as opposed to going back to a job. I'm a software developer and most of my experience is in developing full stack web apps and in scaling web backends.

What do you want to know? In general, there are two ways software developers can make money: 1) services, i.e. contracting, work for hire, or consulting; or 2) products, i.e. build something someone wants to pay money for.

Thanks for the reply, and I apologise I did not see this earlier. So, these are my questions:

1) In a consulting business, what is the technique to discover clients and get a steady stream of work?

2) For a product business, how does a software developer without any business experience identify a good niche to develop a product in (I'm assuming the product would be a SaaS product) and what are some general techniques to market and sell this product?

I hope my questions were not too vague. If possible, could you share your approach to self employment as well?

Yeah, did that too, then accidentally grew a company, and the boss has to be in bright and early :|