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🎯 JavaScript Engineer. Sharing a journey how I make money online

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Ilya Makarov
5 months
Getting some views on LinkedIn My relationship with X is complicated… Though, I’m happy with the dynamic that LinkedIn shows If your ICP is there, I highly recommend to try posting there You get views much easier there
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Ilya Makarov
5 months
Got this feedback👇 The guy made my day, for sure. For the last 4 months I was building my expertise in solving algorithmic problems. I’m ranked now 75k/5M ✊ Even tho I haven’t started teaching yet, I’m already getting a feedback 😁
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
1/2 of the year is done ✔️ It wasn’t an easy period of my life, for sure But I always pushed myself anyway ✊ Over this time - build a project (didn’t find a product market fit) - reached 300+ followers on YT (decided to stop) - came back to coding I made a commitment -
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
If you dedicate yourself to the niche It’s a matter of time when people start recognize you Eventually all hard work will pay off Especially nowadays in the era of AI, people just don’t work hard They’re not that hungry anymore
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
Cold Shower in the Morning Been doing it for a week. Do I want to? Of course not. But that feeling after—doing the one thing I least wanted to do? It’s oddly addictive. And the mood boost? Huge. Isn’t that the perfect way to start the day?
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
How to Recognize Two Pointer Problems? (with 15 Real Problems) 1. You're iterating over a sorted array or string 💡 use cases: - Used to find pairs or satisfy a target condition. Works best on sorted inputs. 🧩 problems: - two sum (lc 1, lc 167) - three sum (lc 15) 2. You
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
Created a content plan for the first 50 videos on YT ✊ Analyzing what videos performing well in my niche Reverse engineering video creation you say? 🤏 The next step - to make first 5 videos, and start uploading them
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
500 Problems on LC ✔️✊
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
Code implementation
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
And we also map bucket index to the color
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
We use a bucket sort & hash map We distribute days to buckets
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
DSA in Real Life #1 How to create a grid like that? Thread 👇
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
I didn’t touch my phone 8h today 4h in the morning - walking + cooking + doing chores Deep work: + 2h session + 2h session 8 hours with no notifications, no scrolling, no consuming content Perfect ✔️
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
I set a timer when I solve problems on LC It helps simulate 🤏 pressure Currently taking a challenge, I chose 10 dynamic programming problems that I haven’t seen before And the goal is to solve them in 30m Today I solved 3 of them: 37m ➕➖ 21m ✔️ 19m ✔️
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about ROI of my actions It’s so easy to be busy doing things that “matter” but not actually The real question is: does it lead to earning money or no?
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
3 months ago I felt very bad, probably one of the worst emotional states I’ve ever had  At that point, I didn’t work as a developer for over a year.  I wanted to find my purpose, enjoy what I do (teaching/helping people/creating content), and create value in general. I would
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
I covered every topic I was interested in Of course you can always learn something more, and improve your understanding, tho it’s fine, I’m happy with results The most favorite topic: dynamic programming (who could guess..) The least favorite topic? Idk.. binary search
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
Today I got 2 new badges 🎯 I finished two roadmap lists: 1. Top 100 liked questions 2. Leetcode 75 And a third one is coming soon - “Top 150 interview problems (134/150) 🤏🤏
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Ilya Makarov
6 months
Top 1.2% 🥷✔️ Just need 0.2% more and I’ll be 🤏 happy Have a lot of plans after achieving that goal but.. It’s a topic of another post
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