Using Coding Skills to Make Passive Income
Jan 14, 2025 — 24 min read
In 2017, I stepped down from my job as CTO of a 150-person software company to see if I could make money selling my own software on the Internet.
Eight years later, I am now a full-time “solopreneur”—running a portfolio of revenue-generating software products as a full-time job. I now set my own hours, take vacation whenever I want, and, amazingly, earn more than I ever did as CTO.
In the talk below, I’ll share how I did it and what I learned in the process. I’ll share the skills that programmers should pick up in order to start selling software on the web, including both technical and non-technical ones. I’ll discuss how to get started, evaluating your ideas, building your product, and getting your first users and customers. The talk will draw from years of work building and selling software myself, as well as the experience I’ve gained from helping hundreds of others launch their own businesses with SaaS Pegasus.
If you’ve ever wanted to turn your coding skills into revenue-generating side-projects, I hope this talk both inspires and helps you to get started.
