How I went from zero to $202 in one year as a software engineer

Tom Smykowski
3 min readOct 14, 2022

As you may, or may not know, I am sharing stuff across various social media accounts as a software engineer. From this article you will learn how it is going.

Medium

On Medium I am 13 followers from 1000. I am also earning some money. Usually from an article I earn around 5 dollars. Ocassionally an article earns more:

YouTube

On YouTube I share mostly short videos about programming. It is the second channel that I can monetize. I have almost 2000 followers, and after recording hundreds of videos my earnings come close to $2 per month:

Instagram

On Instagram my programming content attracts eyes of over 600 people:

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Tom Smykowski
Tom Smykowski

Written by Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.