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✍️ Learn more by building

I enjoyed building digital products since 2005 doing tons of graphic design as freelancer and 2011 i registered by business, i learn more about wordpress and web-designer as time pass by from a freelancer to build design agency and offer services for small medium enterprises for branding and marketing.

I had struggles with productized services on and off due to HR related like hiring people. I did manage to build 2 teams, but didn't manage to scale properly. Later on i told myself, i should up-skill myself to learn about JAMstack, Figma and more advance video-editing for production. So i made fajarsiddiq.com/work for 2 years on experimental stage, now i remove it from my website as i wanted to learn more about productized services or software as a service and grow my target audience and understand the online culture of indie-hacking. I've done it, i saw the results. It was awesome, is time to do something about my company at euphorya.co and once is done i will scale the business & team.

I have 3 companies total and now i have 10+ side-projects, my side projects a re mainly for me to learn and i want to give it a try to turn it into profitable business as that is how i started my journey in early days in learning more by doing. I hope to pivot my business as boostrapped + indie way. Been doing this for the past 15 years.

Some challenges i faced:
2018 - mental health (burnout)
2018 - laptop is dead (bought in 2012 $3999 at apple)
2019 - type 2 diabetes
2020 - laptop need fix (repair cost $1000 at apple)

Mainly cost money in financial + health.

Currently i've been nomading to near places around asia or going back to Singapore, building online communities, giving feedbacks & reviews and learning.

For more you can check out my projects from time to time https://fajarsiddiq.com/microstartups

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