From Gamer Marketer to Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel | Hassan El Mghari The BBoJS Podcast

Hassan El Mghari is a Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel and a full-stack software engineer.
He founded UltraShock Gaming, a game marketing startup with a community of 500,000 members on Steam, and ran it for 4 years before selling it.
He worked at Fig as a Developer Advocate at the beginning of his career. Hassan has built several AI projects and is passionate about startups in the developer tools space and building interesting side projects. In today's episode, we explore:
* How to make money as an online game marketer
* How Hassan Transitioned from Electrical Engineering to Coding
* The importance of learning in public
* How to become an entrepreneur
* How to build an online community
* The power of consistency and repetition
* How to do a full-time job and build side projects
* and many more…
Where to find Hassan El Mghari:
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/nutlope
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nutlope/
* Github: https://github.com/Nutlope
Where to find Kelvin:
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dominus_Kelvin
* Github: https://github.com/DominusKelvin
* The Boring Javascript Stack: https://github.com/sailscastshq/boring-stack
* LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kelvinomereshone

In this episode we cover:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:39) About Hassan El Mghari
(01:37) Hassan’s developer journey before Vercel
(06:30) How Hassan became an online game marketer on steam
(09:00) How Hassan built his online gaming community to 50,000 members in 6 months and 500,000 members in one year
(14:16) The Power of Consistency
(16:23) How much Hassan made as an online game marketer.
(18:25) How Hassan got his first Developer Advocate job
(22:45) Hassan’s experience working at Fig
(26:35) How Hassan became a Senior  Developer Advocate at Vercel
(32:50) Hassan’s mindset and approach while working at Vercel and building side projects
(37:51) How Hassan completed two AI (Artificial Intelligence) side projects in 2 weeks
(43:20) The inspiration behind Hassan’s AI projects
(49:19) About RoomGPT
(1:00:03) Will AI models get cheaper?
(1:01:23) What tech stack should Indie Hackers use?
(1:04:02) Hassan’s advice to newbie builders
(1:05:45) Hassan’s book recommendation
(1:06:56) Hassan’s favourite TV shows
(1:08:30) Final words from Hassan
(1:08:53) How to connect with Hassan and view his projects
References:
Fig: https://fig.io/Vercel: https://vercel.com/
NextJS: https://nextjs.org/
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/Alt Text Generator: https://github.com/Nutlope/alt-text-generator
Restore photos: https://github.com/Nutlope/restorePhotos,
https://www.restorephotos.io/RoomGPT: https://github.com/Nutlope/roomGPT, https://www.roomgpt.io/
Peter Levels: https://twitter.com/levelsioReplicate: https://replicate.com/
Stable Diffusion: https://stability.ai/stablediffusion
Control Net: https://stablediffusionweb.com/ControlNet
Atomic Habits : https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299?crid=TVQZRRAPB8WL&keywords=Atomic+Habits&qid=1690420692&sprefix=atomic+habit,aps,386&sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=koo0d-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=ac187af0b01836b0682865369b59fb4b&camp=1789&creative=9325

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