Bye 2018

In this post I wanna to write a simple summary about this year. About travel, work, personal stuff. Maybe I need to make it a habit and post report every month.

Travel

• **January **Kyiv, Kerch
• **February **-
• **March **Kyiv****
• **April **Dortmund, Amsterdam, Brussels
• **May **Kyiv, Odessa
• **June **Shchaslyvtseve (Azov Sea)****
• **July **Lviv, Warsaw, Gdansk
• **August **Kerch
• **September **Warsaw, Lisbon, Basel
• October -
• **November **Kyiv, Frankfurt, Valencia, Munich
• December -

In July I visited the OMBIZ forum in Lviv, Ukraine:

In September, I and my friend Roman attended the DNX festival conference in Lisbon, Portugal. We met many interesting people who create something:

University

I graduated from university and received my master’s degree:

Own projects

Blog

It was published 24 posts. 2 of my posts was cross-posted to the official blog of Expo SDK. Also, my unique tutorial was featured on Polyglot Developer. They sent me an author-pack, but it stuck on Ukrainian customs. For one of my tutorials, I recorded a video.

Apps

The main - created more or less stable passive income stream. It is not very big money, but very pleasant. Less downloads, than in previous year, but more sales. I can’t calculate, but published around 5-6 applications and same quantity was not published. Also, I created account on Google Play and published first 4 apps, but after a 2 weeks Google banned me without a reason.

Udemy

It was created 2 courses in the end of 2018. The first is not related to programming, the second about Express.js. But all these courses on Russian language. I got my first dozens of students:

Freelance

Worked on one Angular 5 project and Serverless App. Feedback from client:

Roman did a great job!

Other

I played a little with different affiliation programs. One of the projects successfully worked and generated some $, but I closed it, because I needed to put all time to work on it and raise it in google search. Another project works without me (I automated it using DigitalOcean and Node.js), but generates 0$ and it will take a time to monetize it, because it should create a trust.

Also, in July I was attended on online Russian Speaking conference for developers. The theme of my story was “how to start working remotely as software developer”. It was my first experience of conference talk, but it was online.

Checklist for 2019:

• continue build personal brand
• use more freelancers
• create more helpful content (own and other platforms)
• build a more detailed strategy for blog and own projects
• learn more about e-mail marketing
• restore project with affiliation links
• publish one of apps to CodeCanyon
• create first e-book
• record videos to Youtube channel UPDATE, JAN 2019:
• learn more about online marketing
• talk on real conference

Probably because of my mentality, I cannot write in detail about the numbers and what I do. I hope to fix it in the next year.