good morning and welcome back to another Vlog of a 20-year-old building a tech startup out of his dorm [Music] room I'm so fed up of all these other YouTubers posting about their realistic day in the life and it's a 16-hour work day that's just so unbelievable I woke up today and I thought I'd show you what an actual day in the life looks like as a startup founder Engineering University student and a content creator I do sometimes work close to 12 hours a day but that is nowhere near the normal today we likely be around
four to 5 hours tops and I'm going to be showing you everything I'm doing to land an internship what I'm doing to work on the startup today including some technical meetings and just my life as a university student anyways I start every day with a small task and then a big task that way I not only get the ball rolling but I also remove the most daunting task of the day so I'm actually guaranted that I'm going to be productive this is something that's worked for me throughout my entire University career and let me show
you what I actually mean by that my small task right now is just applying to five internships every single day and so far I've totaled over a 100 by applying to these five job postings every single day I am Mass applying which is obviously increasing my odds but most importantly I'm more often than not one of the first candidates to apply because I'm applying to the job posting within the first 12 to 24 hours that it's been listed for [Music] [Music] by being one of the first candidates I know that I'm actually going to get
considered properly and some roles are filled within like 2 or 3 days it's absolutely insane now the hard task is obviously solving that daily Leo question Le code still humbles me to this day and it's honestly so unfortunate that such a core part of the interview process there has to be some sort of better way of evaluating if you're an actual good candidate for a role but what can you do what I'm doing is heading over to this website called n. and completing these 75 questions they're the most frequently asked questions in big Tech interviews
and whenever I get stuck I just go and watch these videos they're an absolute Lifesaver I also make sure to take down some notes in this Google doc to make sure I actually understand understand everything now that that task is done I'm going to head to my university classes do some schoolwork and work on a lab with my lab partner okay so that was a complete lie I never ended up going to class during my lab I got an email scheduling an interview for this Quant firm so I went to a cafe instead to grind
out some Le code I can't recommend n code more to you guys he makes learning Le code so much easier after that I wrote down some interview prep notes for around half an hour and then started reading through this article on how to build real time chat applications using websockets in spring boo basically I needed to find a way to allow users to talk to each other and websockets and spring boot allow for bir directional messaging which is perfect for me I spent a bit of time reading through this guy's code like his service classes
his controller methods and all of that trying to understand it but honestly it was too much to absorb in one sitting [Music] [Music] I just got back from class and now I could finally focus on working on the startup but first let's hear quickly from the sponsor of today's video post hog whether you're building a startup like me or you're a CS student or a software developer that likes building their own coding projects this tool is perfect for you post hog is an open-source product Analytics platform built by Developers for developers and what's so amazing
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about building good quality coding projects I highly recommend you check out post talk with the link in the description today okay now we're going to jump into our weekly meeting for empor every single employee of the company is on this call so that's around 9 to 10 people you can be like a drop down of the universities and then you select yours I think we could do it if we stored cookies on every single person's browser that opened it but that's like it's a very weird way of handling it yeah like originally once you put
in your University yeah exactly yeah I get that yeah we just finished the call and I actually ended up staying on a little bit longer with the frontend dev because everything we're talking about had to revolve around the design and uiux of our website right now it's admittedly not that good and that's why it's such a big talking point in our meetings we ended up bringing on this marketing major and graphic designers so they could help us figure out everything we need to include on this website to make it stand out perfectly this includes the
very simple things like what are the correct words to include for SEO optimization what colors should our brand use our logo completely changed went from something that was dark blue to pink and yellow for now and what images should go on our website what invokes emotion and makes people want to buy how can we make it as easy as possible to spend money on our website that kind of stuff anyways now that the business side is done I could finally hop into some code so I'll see you guys in around an hour and a half
or two I just finished working I ended up turning off all my lights so I could really get into a deep focus State I don't know why but that somehow works for me I also don't know why almost every single developer is like this but for some reason I'm only productive at night it's honestly a really bad habit but what can you do anyways today I ended up writing so much of my backend code for the websockets I'm honestly so proud of myself this included setting up some configuration doing some filtering with the JWT tokens
building new controllers and services and all of that for you technical developers let me show you what I mean so if you didn't already know my back end is in Spring boot as you could tell and this first thing I did was create this web SOA package inside my config to do all the event listening the token filtering and setup configuration and basically the whole point of that was to use stomp end points which is basically what allows the front end to call this websocket so I could actually do the chatting and then went ahead
and implemented this chat controller with a payload of a chat message the destination variable being the conversation ID and then this principle is basically the Spring Security way of determining who's the signed in user there's still a few things I need to bangang out in a service class I need to do this chat message service and controller according to that tutorial as well but honestly you'd be surprised how much you could learn as a developer just by reading other people's code if you remember that tutorial I showed you earlier today I literally just read that
checked out his GitHub and read through his code and then built all of this myself now will it end up working in production or anything I have no idea honestly probably not that's just how it works but for today that's a lot of work to end the day today I have an intral soccer game with some friends that I'm honestly really excited for so I'll see you after [Music] that all right that's the end of my day I got a little bit of everything in worked on some schoolwork worked on the startup even got a
little bit of exercise in and touched and grass it's probably one of the most realistic day in the lives I could have possibly recorded one of my favorite quotes is you'll always overestimate how much you could do in one day but you'll underestimate how much you can accomplish in one year to show up every single day 3 to 4 hours of work is a lot if you enjoy this day in the life make sure to leave a like And subscribe we're going to be releasing the MVP so soon so make sure to stay tuned for
the rest of the journey I'll see you guys in the next one [Music]
