I plan to continue building big projects for now, but I want to know if it’s possible for me to get a job.

Absolutely. Your situation does limit you to working with teams with flexible cultures, but those are the best teams, anyway.

I don’t need to work somewhere fully remote with flexible hours and strong respect for accessible practices. I choose to work there, because that culture is great for everyone.

My instinctual reaction is to believe that my projects have very limited significance in the eyes of a prospective employer.

It shows Moxy, and that counts for a lot during developer interviews.

When someone interviews with me and has a interesting public source projects (or brings a binder full of source code, of closed source), my priorities become:

1. Ask enough to verify this is actually code they wrote.
2. Get them talking long enough to give them a chance to say something truly horrifying and racist, in case that’s how they roll.
3. Sell my team to them as a great place to work.
4. Start calibrating my professional training plan, because I’m probably hiring this person.

Congrats on the huge and successful project!

I had the same concern until I started networking with people in industry and learned that plenty of tech jobs don’t have degree requirements and that work from home eliminates a lot of the barriers and excuses companies often use to avoid hiring disabled people. I’m still self-learning, but I’m no longer worried that being physically disabled or not having a CS degree will hold me back.

You already have a lot of knowledge, a proven product, and community recognition - that shows you’re a capable candidate to a lot of employers. Plus, of all the potential employers out there, you only have to impress one to get a job.

I think the only major limitations are going to be what the job market is like at the time you start applying, and whether you can stay in touch with and expand your network to improve your odds. Keep up with the people and community surrounding your game site, stay active on programming.dev, and maybe find some slack, discord, or professional communities to join. Lots of places are still doing zoom meetings and virtual conferences as well.

Gotta ask, what do you use as a set-up laying down? I’m frequently bed bound and still haven’t found any adjustable table or stand stable enough that makes it easier to work. Might be time to invest in medical gear actually made for injured people, but I have no idea where to start.

I’m self taught, been at it for 15 years now and am currently the director/part owner of an IT company. There’s only seven of us, but it’s barely been six months so growing quite quickly.

I’d be interested in hiring someone like you, I like the spirit. Keep at it, like others have said, you’ll get there. The only thing is, I’m not sure about more all remote devs. We have one all remote dev already and it’s hard when most people are in the office regularly and one isn’t to not have that person feel a little left out. You might be better off with a true all remote company

Feel free to dm me though (can you? I’m new at this lemmy thing)

When I was involved in the interviewing and hiring of programmers a while back, the number one thing we looked for was projects that you did on your own time.

Different industry, but I’d say you have a very good chance of getting a traditional job, even if they have college degree requirements. You can always pickup whatever you think you might be missing as needed, maybe with online courses.

Also, I’d suggest that if someone or some company discriminates against you because of your special needs, you probably don’t want to work there anyway.

Have you thought about ways to monetize your project? That’ll be a great to show off on your resume if you wanted a conventional job. Even implementing AdSense on your site will get some folks interested enough to interview you.