Thoughts on building products, indie making, and the journey of being a solopreneur.
Scaling development with Kimi K2.5 and Kimi Claw. A CTO’s approach to onboarding an AI agent as a formal team member for autonomous bug fixes and GitHub PR workflows.
One month after launching with zero users, I am documenting the shift from building deterministic systems to the unpredictable world of marketing. After realizing X is mostly for builders, I am pivoting to Reddit to find my actual audience. This is the reality of the indie maker grind.
On paper, 2025 should have been a great year for me. I had a steady salary and some freelance income on the side. But in reality, I spent most of the year feeling financially "stuck." Every time I checked my banking app, the number looked okay, but I felt like I couldn't move forward. I wasn't getting poorer, but I wasn't getting ahead either.
A transparent 2025 year-in-review of a 7-year developer and CTO transitioning into solopreneurship. From Shopify plugins to AI agents built with Claude 4.5 and Windsurf, this article explores the "Builder’s Trap"—how 1,255 GitHub commits resulted in $0 revenue and why coding speed doesn't guarantee business success.
One simple question at the Chiang Mai Digital Nomad Summit made me pause: what if I could work differently? This moment lit my first candlelight in Solojourn