Simon Foxe has worked in both infrastructure and development sides of the tech industry since the early 90’s.
He is the director of Codeflow, a WordPress specialised development business servicing clients in Australia, United States and Switzerland.
He has been running Codeflow from the road for the last 4 years, and recently completed the Remote Year program, living and working in a different country each month with 65 other digital nomads.
Digital Nomad Development
An exploration of ideas, lessons, hacks and opportunities to make you a more productive WP developer… and take your business on the road.
Topic points:
- Lessons learned whilst traveling the world as a remote WP developer.
- Hard realities of what it’s like to be a digital nomad, and what you need to do to make it profitable
- Australian specific tax implications and opportunites
- Acknowledge maintenance is required, and turn it into a product you sell to your clients (eg: ManageWP, InfiniteWP)
- Develop using ‘reusable function’ methodologies in your business (eg: starter themes, child themes, frameworks). Look at baking your own framework, but always use others.
- Look for opportunities to streamline your development (eg: CSS compilers, FTP sync, placing WP in a subdirectory).
- Become a hosting reseller to increase your passive income and be a one point call for your clients. This will save you time dealing with site builds.
- Identify opportunities to buy developer licenses and sell access to these as part of your maintenance.
- The benefits of stepping out of your comfort zone, and learning from other developers – especially non WP focused ones.