What I'm up to now in 2025

2024 was the year coding really started to click for me. I got to be very consistent as I continued building Sponsorship, and started getting a bit of revenue from my sites. Another big accomplishent was finally making SchoolMaker profitable by reducing costs, increasing MRR, and making it one of the best e-learning platforms for creators.

🧱 I'm starting to feel confident in my coding skills, but I left out the marketing side of things in 2024, next year I want to dust off my marketing hat to grow my projects.

I learned how to manage a team, lead, make decisions, be a PM, and got good results for SchoolMaker. Grew my YT job board to 500 users, built a new SaaS MVP in less than a month. I also traveled a bit and met dozens of entrepreneurs in the US and in Thailand.

🧱 A lot of things started to click this year, I started to feel appreciated for the work I put in so far, which makes me want to double down even more in 2024.

Wrote a book, released my first piece of software, started a YouTube channel about SaaS growth, and became the CEO of SchoolMaker at the end of the year.

🧱 Started to apply what I knew to more ambitious projects.

Joined SchoolMaker as the first employee (wearing the designer and marketer hat), finished college, and continued learning how to code. I was also improving regularly by following online courses.

🧱 Building a more solid marketing, design, and coding foundation.

I built foundations in marketing at my startup job, then started working with a YouTuber, doing video editing for him. I built design foundations by building websites for clients, making posters, and I started to learn how to code.

🧱 Started building a marketing, design, and coding foundation.

Got my first startup job in a fintech, tried to build another ecom brand, started to get more interested in SaaS and coding. Started following more and more online courses and learning from the internet.

🧱 Discovered how different the tech industry was from the rest of the world, it felt like home for me, I knew that I wanted to continue working around tech / marketing / design.

Started a clothing brand with friends, had a lot of fun, lost more interest in school, but learning and reading even more, I also finished high school, started college, and got my first job as a salesman.

🧱 Started resenting the traditional school system for how little it prepares you for real life, while still being very pro-education and learning online. I was glad that I had learned how to work with other people, negotiate, and sell on the side.

In high school, I didn't relate to people around me, I escaped by playing video games, reading business books and tried to build my first business.

🧱 Learned that I didn't fit with most people, had a hard time getting good grades, but was still very hungry for succeeding in life, I started having a strong thirst for knowledge, and started having more ambitious goals. I learned how to build sites and how to do paid ads, and started reading business self improvement books.

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