I just started working full time on my mortgage loan officer SaaS tool again. I had started building it when I worked for a mortgage company in 2017 because I was annoyed at having to enter the same data on 6 websites 20-30 times a week. Ended up getting some paying customers but somewhat unconsciously avoiding selling too many, a personality defect I have since seen.
If you know a mortgage loan officer, tell them to email tyler at lightningestimates dot com and mention HN. I'm just trying to fix an industry problem at a reasonable price.
Can you explain why you think it’s an awful language? It definitely used to be lacking in features, but the improvements in the recent versions have been great.
If you've been working as a developer for 5 years no one will care about your grades in undergrad, and a Masters in Comp Sci is unlikely to be worth the opportunity cost.
I would suggest starting to look for developer jobs at smaller companies or startups. You're much more likely to be working on all kinds of things instead of being stuck in small areas of the code. Working at FAANG is likely to be the exact opposite where you'll be a bit more of a cog in the machine that works on some small feature.
Lightning Estimates | Full Stack Developer | Remote (US only) | Full/Part Time
Lightning Estimates is a SaaS tool for mortgage loan officers that saves them time and effort in creating accurate estimates for customers. I've been developing/selling it all by myself and am looking to bring on a developer to start taking over the tech side of things. The tool has a small user base, but makes enough to cover the cost of running it.
Everything is done using AWS... EC2 for the web server, RDS for databases, Lambda for some process intensive parts. The backend is done in PHP using Laravel while the tool itself is a SPA built using Vue. You'd basically be coming in as a co-founder and would get a good chunk of equity and profit sharing.
I'm happy to chat more about what's going on and what I'm looking for, and willing to work together to figure something out that can help take tech responsibility off of my plate!
> Personally I think we are watching the slow death of the USA. May be from France I am not getting all the subtle details about the situation on the ground but the country seems to be completely divided.
I live in Washington DC and completely agree with you. The division has only been getting worse for years.
Check out https://reflect.run/ as a replacement for Cypress. I started using it recently to do E2E testing at work in our staging environment to run a suite of tests before we move anything to production.
So far it's been great and has saved a couple of releases in a month or so of use!
A tool for mortgage loan officers (or anyone who actually runs the numbers) to automate creating accurate estimates. It started out as just a tool to save myself time that I built more onto over time.
It makes money, and my "worst case" scenario of it helping to land me another job through personal growth played out. I'm still pushing it along, but it's a struggle at times.
> The psychological toll of not feeling like you’re “all-in”
I'm bootstrapping my own SaaS solo and this one hit real close to home. I've been at it for a couple of years, and as of Feb this year it became a nights/weekends project as I had a great opportunity for a full time job that I couldn't pass up.
Life definitely gets in the way and makes me feel like I'm not working hard enough, but it's a hard balancing act with a full time job. Plus having a wife who's pregnant with twins (our first kids), so just another wrench thrown in there!
The hassle is because of the implication that is super easy to run a self hosted solution. It's a decently complex task that your average person couldn't come close to doing, and many here would still take a bit of time to grok it all.
I had a bit of interest on this when I first read about it, but was a bit skeptical then... I wouldn't touch this at all now with no guarantee that the deposits are insured.
If you know a mortgage loan officer, tell them to email tyler at lightningestimates dot com and mention HN. I'm just trying to fix an industry problem at a reasonable price.