A curious kid. Often weird. Often different from the group.
I made a promise to myself that until 25, I would try everything I possibly can — to figure out what I'm truly good at, what I genuinely enjoy doing, and what I can make money from. Once I find that thing, I'll go all in after 25. Looking back, knowingly or unknowingly, that's exactly what I've been doing all these years.
Yeah, for some people this might sound stupid because everyone says you should stick to one thing for a long time. But honestly, we're all going to die one day anyway. I believe it's better to explore different paths and discover what you truly love rather than spending your whole life doing something you may never even enjoy.
And technology makes this possible. It's almost like magic. Right now, I'm writing this from a random café, and someone from another part of the world could be reading it. That still blows my mind.
So here's where it all started.
I was a huge fan of Justin Bieber — and honestly, I still am. I wanted to be like him so badly that I literally wrote down most of his song lyrics in my notes and sang them all the time. I bought a guitar, learned a little, and even played in some college programs.
But while doing all that, I realized something important about myself. I'm deeply introverted. I overthink a lot. I'm not someone who naturally enjoys being in the spotlight or talking to large groups of people. Slowly, I understood that this path wasn't really meant for me. But even today, I still love music and find instruments fascinating.
Admiration and identity are two different things. Sometimes you can deeply love something without being meant for it.
Then came the biggest dream at that point in my life — buying a laptop.
I was in my final year of graduation, coming from an arts background, and owning a MacBook felt impossible. Somehow, someone traveling from the US brought one for me, and that laptop completely changed my life.
That's when I started doing nerdy stuff.
Nobody in my hostel block knew coding, so I thought it would look cool if I acted like some hacker guy. I used to copy-paste code from the internet or GitHub, run it in Jupyter Notebook, and generate graphs using Matplotlib. At that time, it felt magical that just a few lines of code could create something visual and meaningful.
The deeper I went, the more I discovered this world called Machine Learning. Back then, "Machine Learning Engineer" was a huge buzzword. I had no science background, no proper coding knowledge — I barely knew how to open Jupyter Notebook and run copied code. But curiosity pulled me in.
While my classmates were reading sonnets and fiction, I was sitting there trying to understand neural networks and algorithms without even knowing what I was doing half the time. Somehow, I kept learning in whatever way I could.
Curiosity matters more than talent. Most people wait to feel ready. I just kept clicking buttons and figuring things out.
At first, I thought machine learning was mostly coding. Later I realized it was heavily math — calculus, integration, statistics — all the subjects I was never good at. It was hard. Really hard. But I joined a course anyway and ended up becoming the second topper in that elite program.
Confidence is built, not born. I was never naturally good at math, but effort slowly changes your identity.
That gave me confidence.
Then I started building chatbots. Back then, getting access to the OpenAI API, fine-tuning models, and making them work on your own data felt unreal to me. It genuinely felt like magic.
Somewhere during all this, I also developed a habit that changed my life completely — reading books. And till today, it's one of the best habits I've ever built.
Books changed the way I think. The more I read, the more I realized that knowledge compounds quietly over time.
Then I got my first internship — an international one at a startup. I honestly didn't know much about real-world work at that time, but I was curious and willing to learn however I could. Later, I did another internship, but deep inside, I always had this feeling that I wanted to build something of my own while I was still young enough to take risks.
Real growth happens when you step into rooms where you know absolutely nothing.
So me and one of my friends started a marketing agency.
He knew Meta ads, websites, and campaign setups. During that phase, I learned cold emailing, client communication, relationship building, website creation, and marketing campaigns. I built my first website completely on WordPress. It took me almost one week to finish it because I was learning everything from scratch. I even downloaded premium templates from random places online just to make it work.
Communication is a real skill. Building relationships and understanding people matters just as much as building products.
Then another interesting phase started.
One of my classmates and I created a community for curious people. I started teaching machine learning, created a course, and even got appreciation from freeCodeCamp.
But somewhere along the way, I lost interest. I couldn't find deeper meaning in it anymore. I realized I wasn't truly enjoying it, so I walked away from it.
Not everything successful feels meaningful. Sometimes you outgrow things that once excited you.
Back then, I was insanely active on Discord. If I was online for 10 hours a day, you'd probably find me on Discord for at least 4 of those hours. I joined countless communities, talked to people from everywhere, and made a lot of online friends. AI agencies were becoming the trend at that time, and I was deep inside that ecosystem.
The internet lets you meet people from across the world who completely change your direction in life.
That's when I met a friend from Australia. He was a working professional and very interested in building something in the AI agency space. I wanted to explore it too. After a few conversations, we decided to start an agency helping small businesses build AI solutions.
Slowly, more people joined us — someone from Thailand, someone from the USA — and honestly, I believed we were going to build something huge.
One of our co-founders was around 60 years old and had spent over 35 years in the automotive industry. He identified a massive problem in the industry that nobody was solving properly. He strongly believed this was our opportunity. Since he had decades of experience, we trusted his vision completely.
We worked insanely hard on that product. But we got trapped in perfectionism. We kept delaying the launch because we always felt the product wasn't "ready enough." Since most of the product relied on third-party tools, things became even slower.
It took us more than 15 months to finally launch.
And by the time we launched, competitors had already entered the market. Our positioning was weak. Some customers still liked the product, but internally the team had already started losing energy. Nobody was earning salaries. Everyone had their own survival pressures. Eventually, motivation disappeared and the project slowly died in silence. Including for me.
Shipping matters more than perfection. Great ideas die when you wait too long.
To survive financially, I got into freelancing.
I landed my first client who paid me $1300 to build a simple chatbot. At that time, that amount felt unbelievable. One project. One week. Enough money to buy a laptop. I remember thinking, "This is crazy."
After that, I worked on several freelance AI projects for companies internally.
The internet rewards people who can solve problems, not just people with degrees.
At the same time, I was reading books every single day. The more I read, the more I understood ideas like leverage, freedom, and how technology gives ordinary people the power to build extraordinary things. That's when I became certain that I wanted to build something in tech.
I also experimented with podcasts and content creation just to explore and understand myself better.
Creating content forces you to understand your own thoughts clearly.
Then one day, one of my uncles spoke about peer-to-peer delivery. And instantly, something clicked for me.
I was literally a living example of that idea — someone from the US, whom I had never even met before, had brought my laptop for me. That single experience stayed with me deeply.
So I decided to build something around it.
I had zero experience in mobile app development, but I still said yes to it. I hired two people, and one of them eventually became my co-founder. Together, we started building the app. This was before AI coding agents became powerful. Even though ChatGPT existed back then, it wasn't anywhere close to what it is today.
Sometimes you don't need confidence to start. You just need enough curiosity to take the first step.
Meanwhile, to understand logistics deeply, we took over a courier franchise.
Those days were brutal. I worked without proper sleep or food. But within three months, we made the business break even. After one year, even though the business was profitable and generating around ₹2.5 lakhs in revenue, I quit.
Why?
Because I felt like I had already learned what I came there to learn. The whole purpose was to understand the logistics industry deeply so I could build better technology around it. Once I stopped learning, I lost interest.
Sometimes you enter businesses not to stay forever, but to understand the game deeply.
After that, I went back full-time into building the app.
Eventually, we launched it on both the Play Store and the App Store.
Honestly, seeing my own app live on those platforms was one of the proudest moments of my life. Something that started as an idea inside my head was now sitting on thousands of people's phones. Anyone in the world could download it. That feeling was unreal.
We crossed 5000 users, got featured in startup communities, and for a moment, I truly believed we were building something massive.
But then reality hit again.
The business model we had chosen simply didn't work at scale.
So once again, we stepped back. A lot of overthinking. A lot of uncertainty. Endless discussions.
And then one midnight, a new idea struck me — connecting SMEs that need same-day city deliveries through a more optimized logistics network.
After speaking with many SMEs, I realized the demand was real. So we rebuilt the entire product from scratch again, completely changed the model, and now we're launching it once more.
Getting users is hard, but finding a sustainable business model is even harder.
Still there are lot of things I did are not mentioned, since I don't remember them to bo honest.
So this is where I am today.
23 years old. Still figuring things out.
Through all of this, I've learned so much about:
Maybe I did things the wrong way.
Maybe I did them the right way.
I honestly don't know yet.
But maybe someday — before 25 or after it — I'll come back to the internet and finally say loudly that I found something I truly love doing.