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#176 From Therapist to six figure freelance dev

2025/6/20
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Quincy Larson: 专注单一平台可能会限制技术视野，导致在其他核心技术上的滞后。过度依赖特定工具会阻碍技术能力的全面发展。 Kelly Vaughn: 我早期专注于 Shopify 平台，导致我在很晚才学会 TypeScript。我意识到 Web 开发和软件工程在技术使用上的区别，以及后端开发的概念。我需要导师才能通过高中的 AP 计算机科学课程，Ruby 的概念对我来说很难掌握，Python 强制你必须按照规则来，而 JavaScript 则很自由。

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Kelly Vaughn's journey into coding started at age 12 with Neopets, leading to her first freelance client at 14. She discusses early lessons learned about platform dependence and the transition from freelance work to building a successful developer agency.
  • Early coding experience on Neopets.
  • First client at age 14.
  • Lessons learned from platform dependence (Shopify).
  • Transition from freelance to agency.

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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Kelly Vaughn. She's a self-taught software engineer who ran her own developer agency. She was also the founding CTO at financial technology startup. Kelly runs the popular Ladybug Podcast focused on women in tech. We talk about: - How to freelance and ultimately create a developer agency and get clients - Tips for navigating the current developer job market - How to move from freelance to working for someone else - Tips for recognizing burnout so you can know when to take break Support for this podcast comes from a grant from Wix Studio. Wix Studio provides developers tools to rapidly build websites with everything out-of-the-box, then extend, replace, and break boundaries with code. Learn more at https://wixstudio.com. Support also comes from the 11,384 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. You can join these chill human beings and help our charity's mission by going to https://donate.freecodecamp.org Links we talk about during our conversation: - Kelly's website: https://kvlly.com - The Ladybug Podcast talks about tech, career, and code lead by women in tech: https://ladybug.dev - Kelly's engineering leadership newsletter: https://modernleader.is - Kelly's new burnout-focused newsletter: https://afterburnout.co