My first try at building something when I was 16 years old, I tried to build an e-commerce business, which sold wrist bands for watches and apple watches. The business failed due to my lack of experience at the time and a bad choice of niche.
Why ?
I jumped into the drop shipping bandwagon after seeing some content online and thought it was an interesting business model. And it led me to create this project.
Challenges
Finding real painful problems to solve with a business is not easy as a 16-year-old high school kid.
Not knowing anything about business.
I had to learn everything ranging from Facebook ads, to web design with Shopify, to how e-commerce works.
One of the first Facebook ads I made (yes It's pretty bad)
Thankfully my design skills improved a bit since then
Milestones & Achievements
2017: I had made my first "sale" online! (to a Canadian guy, who ended up asking for a refund 😅)
Notes
It’s a bummer that I didn’t start with a more “noble” business model, but the experience was still very valuable, and helped me get my first startup job at Bankin’ a few years later.
I think that when you're young it is really important to try projects to learn as much as you can, many of the skills I learned had an influence on what I could do later in life and opened new doors.
My first tries at designing something were pretty terrible, but now I can do stuff like this or this without much effort, consistency is king!
The first version of the Logo
