Publishing on HackerNoon Is a Badge You Get to Keep
A few weeks ago, we came across a video from a developer walking through the CV that helped take him from Lagos to London.
His name is Pleasant Balogun. He started coding as a teenager, built his first tools using his mom’s Android phone, launched products, had companies acquire his work, and eventually qualified for the UK’s Global Talent route.
But there was one small part of his story that caught our attention.
Back in 2021, Pleasant won HackerNoon Contributor of the Year for Developer Tools.
Looking back on it in his video, Pleasant said the recognition “contributed to… everything downstream.” He then went on to talk about the projects, companies, acquisitions, and experience that eventually formed the application that took him to London.
Now, before anyone starts rewriting their immigration plans around their HackerNoon profile: we are not saying a HackerNoon award got Pleasant his UK visa.
He doesn’t...
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