by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-11 20:46:18+00:00
Yes I agree with your comment as well. But if the only thing that they want to do is get money. Then I mean c'mon they are 15, I wish to say to them that even though I am 17, 15 were one of the most fun periods of my life. The amount of nostalgia hit from all the things when I was 15 hits quite a lot actually.

So I kindly suggest them to not use them solely for making money. I would recommend them not to worry about money, as I think that there are no free lunch generally and if there is any little free lunch, then there's a million times more competition to get to that free lunch that its not worth it.

I wish to say to them to stop worrying about money. Just, enjoy life with friends and do what they feel like. 15 was the most liberating age because not worried about college or anything that much. It was the last year of that thing and me and my friends from school constantly have nostalgia about that age.

I recommend them to setup a minecraft server, yes I know, not the most financial thing but one of the coolest things I had in my life was when I was 15 and me and my friends all went home and 8-11 people played minecraft with each other and we then talked in class.

You got your whole life to make businesses, but this age is genuinely nostalgic. I suggest them to savour it if possible and let their interest in things grow naturally if possible rather than be forced like a carrot on a stick where the carrot's money/hype.

So I would recommend them to create a minecraft SMP, heck even make minor modpacks themselves or learn about servers. One of the first projects I made was breaking nats by custom-patching ssh/dropbear on an intel nat jupyter server only and only because I wanted to play with my friend and he wanted to add some modpacks and I didn't wish to pay for servers. That was one of the best things I did. Although I didn't write any line of code and well for what its worth, many of my projects still haven't been written but I wish to write them by hand when I get into college this year hopefully or the next. My point is that this whole experience genuinely gave me this feeling of code/open source can do so many things, the possibilities are endless :)

All because I wanted to play minecraft with my friend in a more hacker-y way than usual inspired by Hackernews posts and comments too.

(So direct tldr to Wilhelm: You should enjoy your life with your friends at the moment and make a minecraft SMP or anything similar and there are so many stuff that you can gradually move on from there and take your time with that, don't rush hopefully.)

Edit: Another point I wish to add but when you are 15, code/learn about open source because you want to etc. too because you like doing it I guess. My biggest investment in my life at 14-15 was running Linux, so I recommend them to do that if that's possible too making my own custom rices and mixing and matching. Taught me quite a lot of things and familiarity with terminal which has helped me a lot.

So I suggest Wilhelm to use Linux, get familiar with open source projects that he finds cool. Bookmark/star them. Create Minecraft servers with their friends and try to relax perhaps.

I mean I wouldn't be wrong when I thought that damn I should've learnt to do some things that I do now but when I was 15 because I had less stress that time but it was only with this discussion that I feel like, it was for sort of good actually that I didn't stress too much about things and just used linux and everything and I recommend them to do the same if possible.

So within the tldr, use Linux is another priority too :) and you can actually level up in those things too Wilhelm with ideas from Debian/Fedora to Archlinux etc and so many other things and all of this is very likely to help you in future as you become more familiar with Terminal.