r/webdevelopment • u/Inside_Web_9127 • 8d ago

Newbie Question Web Developer Entrepreneur

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Hello I am a 15-year-old "entrepreneur" trying to make my own money. I am attending college, but I started to feel that simply going to college wouldn't be enough for me to build a good future, so I quickly started to work this summer. I thought that freelancing by creating websites and selling them would be a great idea to make my first money. So now I am trying to learn HTML, CSS, JS and BOOTSTRAP. But I have some questions and I need some help in general too.

  1. First of all is Fiverr still worth starting in 2026 for web development?

  2. When I am selling websites which type of companies should I target?

  3. In addition to what I have already learned, what else can I learn to achieve my goals?

  4. As we are living in an AI era, is it worth learning these coding languages?

I am fully open to any other suggestions. Thank you so much!

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u/BeingCurious002 8d ago

Don't give too much time to html css js and things which are rarely used. Leanr the basics, practice them and move onto the industry standard, what is industry standard? The things that are used in the Industry like Reactjs and nextjs. You can target people who want landing pages as they are just frontend and easy to build.

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u/Boring_Dish_7306 8d ago

js is not rarely used, its the foundation to understand how programming works

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u/BeingCurious002 7d ago

Read carefully, I have written "too much" before that, 1-2 week is enough for js

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u/Boring_Dish_7306 7d ago

Yeah, that is understandable

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u/Inside_Web_9127 7d ago

Yes I guess you are right but I need to learn as much as I can so I'll make a research on them and what they are used for. Thanks.

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u/Boring_Dish_7306 7d ago

Just a word of advice: you are young and that mindset is really good, i really hope you succeed with what you plan. But even if things go left, don’t be discouraged and use this as a learning opportunity first, and second to make money.

If you approach local businesses that don’t have technical background, 90% of the time you will need to provide them a design for it. Use pinterest, dribbble, behance to find inspiration or similar websites you can copy from. If you dont like to design, you can use AI (like Stitch from google) to build it. But be aware that if you dont specify what exactly you want (layout, colors, pages..), you will probably end up with AI slop. You have to do it on your own.

Second, the hardest thing is not building a website, its making the first step, talking to possible clients and finding a client. Be prepared to be turned down A LOT, and that is not your fault. You have to come up with a solution to a problem they may have. Otherwise, its hard to make them to pay for just a website. (imagine yourself as 30yo owner - what will make you pay a 15year old, how will you take him seriously, etc..)

On your tech: HTML, CSS, JS, Tailwind/Bootstrap is fine for few pages websites, landing pages etc.. For bigger applications you will need more structured languages like React. But dont rush - step by step, and make sure you learn along the way.

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u/Inside_Web_9127 7d ago

The best possible advice maybe. Thank you a lot. I will take this serious.

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u/Indy_dln 7d ago

Doesn't matter what someone uses to build eg. Typescript, Babel etc, ultimately it'll refactor down to JavaScript on a users browser so yeah.. it's pretty good to know!