Welcome!
We decided to develop this guide after having a number of conversations with devs within our community about financial education and wellness.
OfferZen's partnership with Investec has given us access to experts in the finance field, with a wealth of finance knowledge that we've been able to tap into. Where relevant, we have also consulted with other financial experts to make sure we have covered all the bases.
Some learnings that we have gathered along this journey so far are:
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There are specific finance themes that tend to resonate more with developers than other folks due to the nature of dev work (eg. remote work, contracting)and the nature of makers in general (eg. starting side hustles, crypotcurrency and other fintech).
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There are also some finance basics that are more generally applicable and these tend to more or less interesting for devs depending on where they are in their career. For example, someone just starting out might not know how to figure out their taxes, whereas a senior dev will likely have that sorted.
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In the SA market, the content that is out there currently doesn't seem to be meeting this need, is often trying to sell something else and there isn't certainty around whether the information can be trusted.
We hope that you find the content useful as you navigate the world of finance!
The team behind this guide haven't managed an open source repo before, so we need all the help we can get! There are lots of ways that you can help us make this awesome:
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❓Submit any finance questions that you have Looking at the guide and not finding what you're looking for? Submit your questions here or log and issue on the repo for us.
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👩💻Make a contribution on GitHub Want to add contribution guidelines? Want to include website functionality that you think is missing? Think you can help us with some of the logged issue? Go for it!
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💬Start a discussion
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⚠️ Log an issue
See a typo or a formatting issue that needs fixing? Log an issue on the repo for us.
ProTip: If you're looking for the guide's markdown pages, check out the docs folder!
- This is a copy of the docusaurus.io getting started template. You'll see that the code hasn't been cleaned up yet.
- @suitophobia is the owner of a Vercel project that builds this repo to www.developerfinance.guide
In order to make a contribution, fork the repo and request merges in. Consider dockerising the development to avoid conflicts with the contributor's local system.
npm install
npm run build
Thanks so much for helping!