Leaving your job to pursue an indie project as a solo developer

<p>We discuss how Simões learned to code and the feature set that allowed <a href="https://www.pokernow.club/">Poker Now</a> to differentiate itself in a crowded space. </p><p>Simões shares the tech stack he used to craft the first version of Poker Now, and how he rebuilt the service after it crashed under the weight of a massive wave of new users. During the peak of lockdown, his site went from an average of 100 concurrent users to more than 10,000 at a time.</p><p>Lastly, we chat about the allure of leaving a regular job behind to work on a passion project, and about the challenges of maintaining a service and earning a living as a solo developer.</p><p>Today we're celebrating Divakar, who was awarded a lifeboat badge for answering the question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36522220/searching-a-sequence-in-a-numpy-array/36535397#36535397">Searching a sequence in a NumPy array.</a></p>