#23: Career transitions and games (⏰ <36 hours left)
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Use promo code JUNE2350 to get 50% off your first month In this 23rd edition of Brighton Dynamic:
Meet Stuart Wallace Stuart Wallace is a freelance artist and developer who makes games and apps. Stuart shares his journey moving from Edinburgh to Lewes and from building healthcare mobile apps to 2D and now 3D game development. You'll learn how he:
Stuart expounds on the joy of the game-building process and asserts that the creator is the game's ultimate user. Listen to the interview or read the transcript Check out Stuart's website Stuart's one of 85 people who choose to regularly work from The Skiff. Don't forget this week is the best time to join him! Check out Buzzshot Tom Parslow, Buzzshot's founder, grew up in Brighton and still lives here today. Between 2016 and 2019 Tom transitioned from £100,000/year freelance web developer to full-time SaaS founder. 2020-21 was a challenge with many of their customers having to stop operations. But with a team of just two and $0 external investment they're doing better than ever:
Tom discovered real problems people running escape rooms were struggling with and solved them: "People are spending hours a week on doing this. There will be Photoshop, there will be sending out emails. A lot of them don't do SMS, some of them have tried it, but by doing that manually it's really hard. And then there will be people who say like, this is what we plan to do and we haven't done it in weeks, because it would take too long."
As well as being a member of The Skiff for much of his freelancing and SaaS journey, Tom is one of the SaaS founders who will be at SaaS Saturday this weekend (1st July). It would be wonderful to see you there too! Buzzshot is currently ranked 29th on our list of successful Sussex SaaS. Know some we're missing? Disagree with the rank? Hit reply to let us know. Also let us know if you're a customer of Buzzshot. Jon would love to ask you a few (easy!) questions. 6 Local Events: AI Breakfast Session — Thurs 29th — 9am-10am — The FuseBox From ideation to implementation, you'll hear about the transformative role GPT-4 played in developing a wide range of projects, including chatbots, Google Doc extensions, and even an AI-powered game! Brighton JUG — Summer Social — Thurs 29th — 6pm-8pm — 13–14 Foundry Street Products You Can Make In A Weekend — Thurs 29th — 4pm-5pm — Online This workshop with Julia Chanteray will take you through some super fast ideas for making products, getting them on sale and moving forward. Brighton Ruby - 2023 Conference — Fri 30th — 9:30am-6pm — Brighton Dome A huge gathering of people who use Jon's favourite programming language. 7 wonderful speakers from around the world joined by hundreds of Ruby developers. SaaS Saturday — Sat 1st July — 9am-6pm — The Skiff A kind of all day conference “hallway track”. A bunch of people who are working on software products. Hanging out/hacking, going for walks around town, eating lunch together and drinks at end of day. The Farm Freelancers VR Special — Weds 5th, 7–9pm — The FuseBox, New England House — then post 9pm in a pub Every reply we get makes a difference! If you like what you read from us, let us know and we'll see if we can power through to 50 editions of Brighton Dynamic. And do send us your tips - which people, companies and events do you think 2,000+ people like you would like to hear about? Until then, Jon, Caroline & Paul PS If you'd like to hangout with us it would be great to see you at The Skiff, either at SaaS Saturday or as a new member - that promo code again JUNE2350 to get 50% off your first month - the clock is ticking! If you liked this you might like to:
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