Andrei Verdes (@theandreiverdes) / X

Andrei Verdes

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Andrei Verdes

@theandreiverdes

I help underpaid Software Engineers land $100/hour+ contracts | went from $45k/year 9-5 → $250k/year contracting | DM me “CONTRACT” to get start

Joined September 2025

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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 8, 2025
My coworker got promoted over me. He was worse at coding. Better at politics. I wrote better code. Fixed more bugs. Shipped faster. He talked in meetings. Took credit. Played the game. He got the promotion. I got "keep up the good work". That's when I realized: corporate
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 12, 2025
I left a $24K job on a Tuesday No backup plan No savings cushion Just rage My manager denied my raise request for the third time. "Market rates," he said I was saving the company $200K annually preventing downtime, getting paid $2,000/month for it That night I posted on
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Oct 26, 2025
Our product isn't perfect It has bugs Missing features Rough edges everywhere
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 9, 2025
Replying to @PaulHPowell13
that’s a new angle to it, I appreciate that you shared this
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Oct 22, 2025
3 months of building. Testing Breaking Rebuilding Now we're in the final push My wife is polishing the UI. I'm hunting bugs and writing docs We're not sleeping much but we're shipping If you're a developer who wants to build a personal brand but hates the content
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 9, 2025
Replying to @OliverDlouhy
I completely agree with you communication is king but most corporate environments run on politics just the nature of humans taking the easier path its easier to become friends with higher ups than to put in the work for an actual promotion
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 11, 2025
We hit 3200 followers 2 days ago we were at 650 2 months ago at 0 Crazy where consistency takes you next stop 10k haha
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 7, 2025
My wife and i argue about code at 11 pm Not romantic But we're shipping Everyone romanticizes building with your spouse Matching MacBooks Coffee shop aesthetics that's not reality reality is debating our affiliate system at midnight debugging at 2 AM hard talks about
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 9, 2025
Replying to @jamesonhaslam
appreciate it Jameson I can feel the big deck energy oh yeah, it was meant for linkedin, but I already got 300k views so it's a bit too late to delete it now
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 8, 2025
Replying to @obinnacharlesx
when you know that you can play any game
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 3, 2025
We hit 550 followers Just a while ago, I was at 0 Daily writing Daily working Daily executing It all paid off
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 5, 2025
We've crossed 600 followers 2 days ago I was at 550 Few months back we were at 0 Crazy where consistency can actually take you Next target: 1000 Appreciate all of you
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Oct 28, 2025
We jumped from 280 to 500 from just a single tweet 60k impressions Can’t be more thankful And we’ve got a bunch of new beta testers for our app If you’d like to join them, sign up and fill the form below this post See you on the other side - Andrei
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Andrei Verdes
@theandreiverdes
Nov 9, 2025
Replying to @IMPERATORAUS
you got it 100% right bro
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