[My 2020 Review]: The $1M Journey of a stay-at-home Dad
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Hey gang,
Leo from Code4Startup here. It’s been a very long time since my last blog post.
I was about to share my review for 2020 but suddenly noticed that it’s already been 5 years since I quit my full-time job and jumped into an uncertain journey (Oct 2015 - Oct 2020).
Disclaimer:
Writing has never been something that I’m proud of. It’s much much easier for me to write 10,000 lines of code than a 500-word blog. English is not my native language so please excuse my terrible writing. All I wanted is simply sharing, sharing, and sharing so let’s read on and feel the energy of what I’m going to share instead, #haha.
To quickly recap the status up to this point (over 5 years):
- Revenue I’ve made: $1M+
- Revenue streams: selling courses + launching Kickstarter + affiliate + partnership
- Hour of all video courses: 200+ hours
- Students: 200K+ (including other code school platforms)
- Countries: 45
- Successful Kickstarter campaigns: 4
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Wow, what a one-man show business! You might think…
No, not anymore. Or at least, this year. Let me be damn REAL with you for a minute!!!
2020 has sucked… financially
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I've written a blog post to share more with you my 2020 without holding anything:
- Share my current terrible MRR dashboard
- What I see this business as an adventure
- Lessons I learned along the way as an indie hacker
- Some fun photos of my "Home Office" version 2015 vs 2020
- How I express my gratitude over this challenging time
- Share 1 book and 1 movie that would really inspire you to go ahead to 2021
- Finally, my new projects (Kickstarter, brand new website,...)
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Have a nice read and hopefully it will inspire you!
Leo
P.S. I would love to hear your thoughts and share your 2020 if that's possible. You can comment on the post or hit me up on Twitter.

