The document outlines 10 skills that a frontend developer can have to become a millionaire, including being open to new tools, understanding how tools work, communicating with other developers, having good design instincts, writing accessible code, optimizing for speed and conversions, creating mockups quickly, and enabling others to work faster while maintaining quality and scalability. It questions whether these skills are realistic for frontend developers or if specialization will still be needed. It suggests frontend developers play a central role in integrating different areas but will need to expand their skills.

1. Be worth millions
Staying a mere mortal frontend developer

2. MVT | A/B test experience?

3. Backend Frontend

4. Backend Frontend
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5. Live demo, ideas please!

6. 10 skills for the millionaire frontender

7. 10 skills for the millionaire frontender
From my wishful
thinking “CEO”
perspective...

8. #1 Be a sucker for new tools (or?)

9. #1 Be a sucker for new tools (or?)

10. #1 Be a sucker for new tools (or?)

11. #1 Be a sucker for new tools (or?)

12. #2 It aint what you do

13. UX / marketing people
should have most ideas.
You have to know how to
make them reality.
Without screwing up
speed, scalability, quality...
#2 It aint what you do

14. #3 Communicating with developers

15. #4 Understand the tools’ working

16. #5 Have feeling for design (re-use!)

17. #6 Have courage. Or be convincing

18. #7 Be a conversion-horny UX nerd

19. #7 Be a conversion-horny UX nerd

20. #8 Write non-nerd hackable code

21. #9 Have a Need for Speed

22. #9 Have a Need for Speed

23. #10 Be quick with mockupping

24. Conclusions / Discussion

25. Conclusions / Discussion
Frontender is in the middle

26. Conclusions / Discussion
Frontender is in the middle
More front-, less backend?

27. Conclusions / Discussion
Frontender is in the middle
More front-, less backend?
Enabling others to speed-up

28. Conclusions / Discussion
Frontender is in the middle
More front-, less backend?
Enabling others to speed-up
Guarding quality & scale

29. Conclusions / Discussion
Frontender is in the middle Is this wishful thinking?
More front-, less backend?
Enabling others to speed-up
Guarding quality & scale

30. Conclusions / Discussion
Frontender is in the middle Is this wishful thinking?
More front-, less backend? Will we all be generalists?
Enabling others to speed-up
Guarding quality & scale

31. Conclusions / Discussion
Frontender is in the middle Is this wishful thinking?
More front-, less backend? Will we all be generalists?
Enabling others to speed-up Will you have a job if not?
Guarding quality & scale

32. Conclusions / Discussion
Frontender is in the middle Is this wishful thinking?
More front-, less backend? Will we all be generalists?
Enabling others to speed-up Will you have a job if not?
Guarding quality & scale Fronteer is 5-legged sheep?

33. Only Fronteers can make us Amazon