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Ask HN: How Much Experience Required Before I Become Self Employed?

4 points by zxcvb ↗ HN
I have a dream. I want to work from home and eventually form a partnership with other programmers and have sort of a virtual office where we work on a (one or more) software products, all of us from home.

My question is, how much experience with a 'real' programming job would you expect/want me to have before taking me seriously? At the moment I only have 2 years professional experience, one of those years at one of the biggest tech consultancies in the world (for what it's worth).

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noodle
i would take you seriously after two things happen:

1) you take yourself seriously, and

2) you can show me examples and proof that you should be taken seriously (i.e., past work, competent answers to questions, etc.)

thats about it.

tortilla
Save up a year of living expenses.
mahmud
Give me a link to your code repo and then we talk.