I have a similar story except I didn't move anywhere to reduce burn, I just worked a full time job and built the company in my off hours. But I did prototype, charging a small fee, for almost 2 yrs too. Once I launched the v1, I went from 1k MRR to 20k MRR within 12 months. Congrats on your success. It's always hard work.
Thanks for at least taking a look and replying =) I do know a bit of Django and will likely extend to other dbs, if there's a need. I originally connected to both HIVE and Greenplum databases because that's what I have at work. As a hobby, I just create postgres dbs on AWS so I mainly connect to those these days. Thanks for the tip.
Just wanted to share a simple py script that I built to automate uploading multiple csv files to a postgres database.
The script will clean the file name and column headers and create the SQL statements to create the db table and upload the file to the database, automatically.
I used this script almost everyday at my past job to upload data from other teams and departments.
I recorded a tutorial on youtube for anyone that wants to try to build it out (links in the README). Hope this is helpful either as a way to easily upload files to a db or as practice getting better building python scripts to automate your work.
Thanks for the support! I haven’t thought about mailing lists so far. However, I am posting artworks regularly on social media (@ai_art_supreme on Instagram). Do you think mailing lists would make sense as I am mostly sharing the artworks and not so much the news content?
Following you on IG now. I just wanted a medium where your site and it's art work would bubble up on occasion since I'm not always buying artwork. I think IG is perfect considering you just share art work. Perhaps promoting the IG channel more on the website would help?
A mailing list is nice because you're actually collecting emails and can use them somehow in the future. You could collect emails and then send users a welcome email that also promotes your IG channel. It just wasn't obvious you have an IG channel. Hopefully this is helpful.
I built a webapp with hundreds of SQL and python questions to help aspiring data scientists practice for their interviews. It's not really passive because it was a massive undertaking to write the questions/solutions and create the app. Now I got to market it by creating video solutions and posting it on Youtube. But I created it to help with my other side job which is teaching data science in the evenings at a university.
Hey guys, I've posted here before to show off a collection of 500 SQL and python interview questions (https://platform.stratascratch.com) and got a lot of great feedback from you all. I'm back because I wanted to share 500 more data science interview questions -- this time covering concepts in statistics, modeling, product sense, probability, business cases, and system design. They're all free and were collected from various public sites. But they're free because I'm only 1 person and can't answer them all. I'm hoping the data science community can contribute. These questions all have discussion forums attached to them, sort of like StackOverflow and Reddit style.
I'd love it if you guys could share your thoughts on it! Does this hit the mark as an educational resource to prep for interviews? What can be improved?
And just to be transparent about my end goal here, I'm hoping for this site to be largely free. I just wanted to create a site where people can have technical conversations around data science, and am starting with the niche of interview prep. The coding questions do have an executable IDE with datasets so I do have to charge for most of those questions to pay for my server costs.
Yea, I completely understand what you're talking about. There's many "solutions" because sometimes there's no real solution. In practice and in an interview, often times it's about a dialogue and aligning with an approach and assumptions.
My implementation of having 1 solution isn't good enough. I plan on adding a discussion forum to discuss these exact topics.
