Ilya Makarov
@devmakarov
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🎯 JavaScript Engineer. Sharing a journey how I make money online
Joined March 2024
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We use a bucket sort & hash map We distribute days to buckets
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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