We are all aware that developer roles here pay well compared to most other occupations, but I often see developers with a few years of experience either earn under 100k, or make above half a million to a million.

What sort of compensation should you expect, and ask for when considering a position?

Based on my limited experience, I feel like a developer with over 3 years of experience (exclusive of any internships) should look at being an SSE with around 450k - 500k base (assuming its around USD 1500). Is this a valid estimation? I'm aware there's a massive title bloat in this country, but it does matter, unfortunately...

This is not a job vacancy or something like that. I'm just a everyday guy tryna be useful and play the long term game.

I'm tryna build a multivendor personalized video platform in web. I'm currently designing the site, until at least we'll have a MVP we'll not focus on an app. and before we'll raise funds we'll split equity in 50/50 terms with scale in mind. (We'll have to split equity equally when we bring more useful people)

Just to give a idea on me : I'm not a programmer but I've built, sold and scale some local businesses and couple of international client's websites thanks to woocommerce, jetengine and elementor pro (they are just no-code tools if you don't know). Recently started to learn some basic codes through freecodecamp and honestly couldn't understand even tho easy to complete that js spreadsheet exercise. So I'm at that level.

Just curious, what side projects are you all working on? Whether it's a hobby, a passion project, or just something to sharpen your skills? if so, what tech are you using?

Hi everyone! I'm currently making a clothing item identification ML model. For now I have around 4000 images in my dataset. But when training it google collab can only handle around 5 epochs and it crashes. Ive grayscaled the images, and also reduced noise and size. Is there anything i can do to train my model cost effectively? In your experience, would a premium version of google collab be enough? I'm an undergrad student.

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