I build open source software, I have one project with nearly 2k stars. It is a product itself and used by thousands of people. I do this while also holding a jo

I build open source software, I have one project with nearly 2k stars. It is a product itself and used by thousands of people. I do this while also holding a job as open source doesn't pay (although I do have donations). I've always enjoyed learning and coding, especially when I was in college. I remember in High School I learned about VB in Word and fell in love with how fun it was (not the language). That sealed me in and during college I would learn and code for fun, rather than do the homework assignments. I've always really loved it. I've learned from watching youtube, reading articles, reading pull requests in software I liked or used, and just doing it. For the project above, I did it in Angular, something I already learned from work and C#, something I had touched a bit in college but due to the cross platform (.net 5), i picked it up as something to learn. Bought 1 course on Udemy, watched half of it and started coding. It was always a program to meet my needs but the lack of competition made me release it and grow with the communities needs as well. For anyone interested: https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita