This was about 10 years ago, where there was Bootstrap, Pure CSS and little more, so I published: https://picnicss.com/ https://picnicss.com/ It went to the f

This was about 10 years ago, where there was Bootstrap, Pure CSS and little more, so I published: https://picnicss.com/ https://picnicss.com/ It went to the front page of Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315616). At the time I was a student in Spain doing coding just for fun, so any job-related opportunity would be slim and with really bad pay (I had actually already worked a bit as a dev for a pittance). Someone contacted me and offered some really fun freelancing projects for what at the time seemed like an absurdly ridiculous large amount of money, so much that I got a great designer friend involved and split the money so the project would be even better. I learned many things from that and as my curiosity pumped me to keep learning. I read about cases of people making 500k+/year as "normal" devs (meaning, not managers, and also not famous). Most of my Spanish peers didn't even believe that existed at the time, and thought I was crazy believing those "obviously fake" blog posts. But I've been working for USA companies basically since then, and couldn't be happier/wouldn't look back.