Ask HN: I'm a young developer. What should I do next?

Re:Ask HN: I'm a young developer. What should I do next? by zachlatta on Saturday July 27, 2013 @10:38AM (#6113009)

I recommend not mentioning your age to your clients until necessary. At least that's what I did. As timmm said, your case study isn't very compelling. If I were you, I'd try to build up a Github with some open source stuff and get more involved in the developer community. Clients will eventually come looking for you.

By the way, shoot me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com. I'm currently 15 and am always looking for other young developers to chat with. I'd be more than happy to talk to you about technology and other interesting pursuits.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm a young developer. What should I do next? by khirasaki on Saturday July 27, 2013 @11:10AM (#6113143)

I agree that rather than looking for work as a web developer, you might focus on building really useful components and libraries on GitHub, or just staring by forking projects there and making improvements or fixes.

I understand your desire to get paid work, but really building your skills and making things that people find useful is a great proving ground.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm a young developer. What should I do next? by hellisonwright on Saturday July 27, 2013 @10:45AM (#6113030)

Thanks for the advice, I agree the case study isn't a great example and I will change it soon.

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