Welcome to the Codenovie podcast.

We talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Ron, and today we're talking about how to be a successful solopreneur

with Jen Yip, founder of Lunch Money.

I think getting used to working on something end to end is very good for when you eventually

do embark on this whole solo founder journey.

Jen talks about the impetus for creating her popular personal finance app, Lunch Money.

How to balance building something for yourself, but that is also good for general consumption,

and how the lines

between personal life and work life can become even more blurred when being a solopreneur.

After this.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for having me.

So, Jen, you already have a really awesome and impressive career working as a software engineer at companies like Twitter and now you're a solopreneur, founder and creator of lunch money,

which is a personal finance tool that a lot of people,

including my husband, really, really love. Before we dig into the company and what you're doing

today, how did you first get into coding? I mean, I've been in my coding journey longer than I

haven't at this point when I feel like I've lived many lives through it and stuff. So I started coding

basically when Neopets came out. I think you could like do some HTML, CSS, kind of spruce up

your shop. And I was like at guilds. I was part of guilds. And then you could also kind of like spruce

up the CSS there. And then from there, I found a little

community online of other kind of like preteens and teenagers. And we all kind of got into making

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