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by saluki 4203 days ago
Two years is a pretty good runway . . .

Listen to StartupsForTheRestOfUs.com lots of good advice there for building SaaS/Products/Lifestyle business.

This will give you some ideas of what options are out there.

As far as remote consulting it seems Rails is the best language for remote positions that pay well.

I would recommend learning Rails . . .

I usually recommend HTML->CSS->js->jquery->Rails(ruby) or Laravel(php)->angular (or other js frameworks)

That will give you a good foundation of full stack web development if that's the type of company you want to work for or build your own.

To build up two years of runway you're doing well . . . so I would keep up what you're doing, choose and new skill to learn and start on your product/SaaS idea.

Here are some other people you should check out: Brennan Dunn (double your freelance rate) Patio11 Nathan Barry Amy Hoy Rob Walling (Start Ups for the rest of us podcast)

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I want to add Django as a great alternative to rails, and Ember as a great alternative to Angular. Just for OP to consider.

Python is a very universal language, and the main benefit is that you can apply it in almost any area of programming.

While I agree that Django is great too, by some reasons Rails community have very positive attitude towards remote work. And yes, I don't know Django/Python community much, but that's what I noticed in Rails community.