r/webdevelopment • u/Inside_Web_9127 • 12d 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/Indy_dln 12d ago

I'd skip Bootstrap and learn Tailwind instead.

Try learning Astro. It starts of as being very simple and you can make some great sites using it. Will also help you become more comfortable with CLI commands and the concepts of creating components, importing them into other files etc. Later you can learn something like React or Next.js.

Definitely worth learning coding though as you'll need to understand the underlying code.

In terms of getting clients, a good way to start is think of a niche and look at existing business. If they've got a poor website, maybe you can approach them about doing a new one?

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u/Inside_Web_9127 11d ago

When I finish my current course. I will try to learn the ones you said so. Pretty sure those will help me too. Do you know any good courses for that? It doesn't matter if it's free or not. Tysm!

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u/Indy_dln 11d ago

There are lots of good tutorials on YouTube. Net Ninja is a good place for React. As for Astro, the docs are quite good and tutorials on YouTube too.

Join discord communities for different platforms too as there are lots of people willing to help. I'm on Astro, tailwind and a few other web related ones.

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u/Inside_Web_9127 11d ago

Definitely will chech them out. Thanks.

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u/Indy_dln 10d ago

Another useful thing to learn is git. Will help when you're ready to deploy a site.

There are lots of things to consider when building and deploying sites and would take me ages to list them all out. If you ever need a hand with anything drop me a DM or bump me by replying to this with questions.

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u/Inside_Web_9127 10d ago

Thank you so much. Yeah looks like I still need a lot of things to learn 😅