What is Self Made Engineer?

Self Made Engineer is a Skool community for backend engineers, built around courses, community projects, challenges and peer reviews. Its focus is the Go language, backend development and DevOps, taught through hands-on, project-based learning paths.

How much does Self Made Engineer cost?

Self Made Engineer charges $16 per month on Skool, read 31 Oct 2026. An annual option is listed at $99. That is cheaper than 69% of the other priced software and tech listings here.

How many members does Self Made Engineer have?

Self Made Engineer lists 188 members, read 31 Oct 2026.

How has Self Made Engineer's membership changed?

From 228 members on 24 Aug 2026, our first reading, to 188 on 31 Oct 2026: down 40, or 18%.

How does Self Made Engineer compare with other software and tech communities?

At $16 a month, Self Made Engineer sits below the $29 median of the 98 priced software and tech listings here. The niche median is 595 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.

What do you get inside Self Made Engineer?

Self Made Engineer publishes 272 course modules, 9 courses, 223 posts, 2 admins. Communities with the most course content.

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Self Made Engineer review

Self Made Engineer publishes 272 course modules on Skool. It charges $16 a month.

A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined Self Made Engineer, and nothing below is a verdict.

Self Made Engineer is a Skool community for backend engineers, built around courses, community projects, challenges and peer reviews.^[1] Its focus is the Go language, backend development and DevOps, taught through hands-on, project-based learning paths.^[1] Members get a growing library of video courses, community projects with openly published code that they can contribute to, and feedback through peer code reviews.^[1] Dev vlogs show what goes on behind the scenes when real software is built.^[1] The subscription includes named courses such as Backend Engineering with Go, Microservices with Go, Advanced Go Essentials and Full Stack with TypeScript: Building a Newsletter service.^[1] Listed bonuses are a JetBrains IDE licence to use while learning, a discount on CodeCrafts and a course on productivity and careers.^[1] The listing states that members can cancel at any time.^[1] Its Skool group was created in May 2024.^[1]

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Members: 188
Published price: $16; per month
Members, last 29 days: -11; 2 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026
Rank by members: #5,971; of 6,076 sellers listed here
Size rank in niche: #328; of 340 sellers listed in software and tech, by published members
Price rank in niche: #69; of 99 priced in Software and tech listed here, highest first
Annual option: $99; per year
Niche: Software and tech; 353 listed here
Created: 5 May 2024; Skool publishes this date
Readings: 16; since 24 Aug 2026

About Self Made Engineer

Sources

Skool listing: skool.com/self-made-engineer, retrieved 25 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

What the listing describes

NicheSoftware and techFormatSoftware or indicatorIncludesTemplates and resources

Read from the listing’s own words: what is offered, never how well.

What is inside

Course modules

272

Courses

Posts, all time

223

People running it

Counts published by Self Made Engineer on its own page, read on 25 Sept 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by tiago-ferreira-4915.

How we knowSourced & dated

Observed on 31 Oct 2026 from Skool source page archived copy 06e1108da3f1.

Observable monthly ceiling

$16

monthly price

188

published members

$3,008

theoretical ceiling per month

This is not revenue, earnings or income. It assumes every listed member pays the headline price, which is never the case in practice, and it does not account for free members, trials, discounts, churn, refunds, platform fees or tax.

Against the software and tech niche

Percentile among the other 352 software and tech listings here.

Price · further right is cheaper69th

most expensivecheapest

Price changes between our readings

Since we began tracking on 24 Aug 2026. We see the price only when we read the listing, so each change is dated by the readings either side of it. A change is listed only where both readings were taken the same way, in the same currency and billing period.

Between 24 Sept 2026 and 1 Oct 2026: $14 per month to $16 per month

Present in every one of the 10 weeks recorded since August 2026, with no week missing.

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Evidence and signals

Listed on 188 members.

Evidence: measured.

Following elsewhere: 46,100 at its largest46,100 on YouTube. Followers on another platform, not members here.
First recorded: 24 August 2026our first reading, not its launch
Elsewhere: YouTube

Tracked over time

Member change

-4-2.1%over 4 days-11-5.5%over 29 days

Price change

Changed between 24 Sept 2026 and 1 Oct 2026

16 observations over 68 days.

Member count

Monthly price

Observation log

Observation log
Observed	Members	Change	Price	Ceiling / month
31 Oct 2026	188	-4	$16 per month	$3,008
27 Oct 2026	192	0	$16 per month	$3,072
23 Oct 2026	192	0	$16 per month	$3,072
21 Oct 2026	192	-2	$16 per month	$3,072
21 Oct 2026	194	+2	$16 per month	$3,104
17 Oct 2026	192	-7	$16 per month	$3,072
13 Oct 2026	199	-1	$16 per month	$3,184
9 Oct 2026	200	+1	$16 per month	$3,200
6 Oct 2026	199	0	$16 per month	$3,184
2 Oct 2026	199	-1	$16 per month	$3,184
1 Oct 2026	200	+3	$16 per month	$3,200
24 Sept 2026	197	+1	$14 per month	$2,758
14 Sept 2026	196	-12	$14 per month	$2,744
7 Sept 2026	208	-12	$14 per month	$2,912
1 Sept 2026	220	-8	$14 per month	$3,080
24 Aug 2026	228		$14 per month	$3,192
Average per week, last 29 days2 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026		-3
Average per week, since first reading24 Aug 2026 to 31 Oct 2026		-4

Seller’s followers on other platforms

Seller’s followers on other platforms
Read, about monthly	YouTube	TikTok
27 Oct 2026	46,100+1,000
27 Sept 2026	45,100

Common questions about Self Made Engineer

What is Self Made Engineer?: Self Made Engineer is a Skool community for backend engineers, built around courses, community projects, challenges and peer reviews. Its focus is the Go language, backend development and DevOps, taught through hands-on, project-based learning paths.
How much does Self Made Engineer cost?: Self Made Engineer charges $16 per month on Skool, read 31 Oct 2026. An annual option is listed at $99. That is cheaper than 69% of the other priced software and tech listings here.
How many members does Self Made Engineer have?: Self Made Engineer lists 188 members, read 31 Oct 2026.
How has Self Made Engineer's membership changed?: From 228 members on 24 Aug 2026, our first reading, to 188 on 31 Oct 2026: down 40, or 18%.
How does Self Made Engineer compare with other software and tech communities?: At $16 a month, Self Made Engineer sits below the $29 median of the 98 priced software and tech listings here. The niche median is 595 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What do you get inside Self Made Engineer?: Self Made Engineer publishes 272 course modules, 9 courses, 223 posts, 2 admins. Communities with the most course content.