Looking but not finding...

[Rick_Delphi 19]

Is there no one in the US building something awesome with Delphi? I keep looking but I'm not finding much. Mostly, it's just your same ole' same ole'--reinventing the wheel and making a dollar a day with all the pop u can drink. No one out there has come up with something lucrative and fascinating to develop and make fat stacks of cash?! This is sad, so very very sad.

[William23668 8]

I can not find any Delphi job too it is very rare and other technologies has very high competition 

[ToddFrankson 4]

39 minutes ago, Rick_Delphi said:

Is there no one in the US building something awesome with Delphi? I keep looking but I'm not finding much. Mostly, it's just your same ole' same ole'--reinventing the wheel and making a dollar a day with all the pop u can drink. No one out there has come up with something lucrative and fascinating to develop and make fat stacks of cash?! This is sad, so very very sad.

I am, 

 

I don't have the funding to hire anyone, Yet.........

[Rick_Delphi 19]

My lifestyle requires $150K/yr just to support it. I can't wait three to five years for a startup to take off or go belly up.

[Rick_Delphi 19]

45 minutes ago, William23668 said:

I can not find any Delphi job too it is very rare and other technologies has very high competition 

I've found some jobs, but the pay is low because they are wanting to grow the IT department larger. I'm looking for a unique opportunity that is exciting and very, very lucrative. I no longer need to build a resume or climb the corporate ladder. This is depressing!

[Rollo62 550]

1 hour ago, Rick_Delphi said:

... wait three to five years for a startup to take off ...

Unfortunately, they wont use Delphi, do they?

[Mark- 29]

3 hours ago, Rick_Delphi said:

Is there no one in the US building something awesome with Delphi? I keep looking but I'm not finding much. Mostly, it's just your same ole' same ole'--reinventing the wheel and making a dollar a day with all the pop u can drink. No one out there has come up with something lucrative and fascinating to develop and make fat stacks of cash?! This is sad, so very very sad.

How about come up with an idea, fund it yourself and reap all the benefits?

[David Heffernan 2379]

3 hours ago, Rick_Delphi said:

My lifestyle requires $150K/yr just to support it. I can't wait three to five years for a startup to take off or go belly up.

Why do you limit yourself to Delphi then? 

[Stefan Glienke 2039]

That comment didn't age well I guess 

[Rick_Delphi 19]

3 hours ago, Rollo62 said:

Unfortunately, they wont use Delphi, do they?

I have found a startup or two that is using Delphi. But, I'm not really looking for that kind of situation. Too much of a roller coaster ride for me.

[Rick_Delphi 19]

2 hours ago, Mark- said:

How about come up with an idea, fund it yourself and reap all the benefits?

Been there, done that, wore out the t-shirt. I'm not much interested in the startup scene these days.

[Rick_Delphi 19]

1 hour ago, David Heffernan said:

Why do you limit yourself to Delphi then? 

It's my favorite IDE. I like others VS, Eclipse, etc, but prefer to work in Delphi.

[Rick_Delphi 19]

56 minutes ago, Stefan Glienke said:

That comment didn't age well I guess 

It did not. Now that I'm writing again, I'd like to do some Delphi stuff too. Writing is great, but it's difficult to do that for long hours everyday (well, at least for me it is). About 3 or 4 hours working on a book and I need a change for the rest of the day. I have put in 12 hour days of writing, turning out 7500+ words, but it leaves me worn thin for the next day.

Edited Thursday at 09:17 PM by Rick_Delphi

[Rick_Delphi 19]

On 2/20/2025 at 10:48 AM, ToddFrankson said:

I am, 

 

I don't have the funding to hire anyone, Yet.........

Oops...

 

So, you would be another startup. That would make 3, maybe 4 that I've found.

 

Something to consider is finding potential customers and seeing if they would fund the development. That way, you would have money and live testers. Startups sometimes do that to get an MVP done.

[Patrick PREMARTIN 93]

"We" have some (real) job offers in France but I suppose it's not of any help because they want local workers.

 

Is there anything "we" (as Delphi lovers, MVPs and others) can do to help showing and sharing job offers or demands ? (it's one of the numerous topics I'd like to help on to increase Delphi visibility)

[Rick_Delphi 19]

6 hours ago, Patrick PREMARTIN said:

"We" have some (real) job offers in France but I suppose it's not of any help because they want local workers.

 

Is there anything "we" (as Delphi lovers, MVPs and others) can do to help showing and sharing job offers or demands ? (it's one of the numerous topics I'd like to help on to increase Delphi visibility)

Thank you! Patrick.

 

I like that you said "(real) job offers." In the US we get a deluge of fake one's all the time.

 

I want to find an opportunity, to use Delphi, to create solutions a company uses in-house to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. It also needs to offer great compensation--my latte costs alone are HUGE. lol

 

Like the startup world, creating technology to sell, isn't of much interest to me these days. I'm really enjoying writing books right now, I might even be getting addicted to it. My interest in the computing world is about understanding the application domain, then building a solution quickly by generating the code (not entering it at the keyboard). In other words, I like to use Delphi and RAD to accomplish what it was intended for: Rapid Application Development.

 

As for others here, I would suppose they are looking for a challenge to their coding skills. Maybe, some component development or updates to legacy applications. But, that's just a guess based on the posts I see here.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Rick_Delphi

[William23668 8]

1 hour ago, Rick_Delphi said:

In the US we get a deluge of fake one's all the time.

No only US but everywhere I see fake jobs and unrealistic HR requirements and very low salaries or just refusals without any reason. I am sad I can not utilize my Delphi experience since version 1.0 I also like Delphi over other technologies.

Edited 29 minutes ago by William23668