Hi, I've been coming to this forum for few times and I soon enough I knew this is the place for me to fuel up myself again.
My Story
At the moment I'm 39 years old and January next year I'll be 40. Too be honest I'm flat broke, It has been like this for about 20 years now since I dropped out from college.
When I was 19, I accidently bump into programming and I knew the only way for me to make money was through software development. I spent countless nights not sleeping trying to learn everything I could so I can write a good desktop application. This was 1998 when I bought my own computer. I didn't do anything much with desktop programming except for personal use. In year 2000 someone offered me a job to develop a website for his company, I took it and started learning html, graphics and other thing like database. I tried to learn as quick as I could so I can deliver job and I did. That was the 1st ever I got paid from programming work.
So I learned more to sharpen my skills and by year 2001 I got my own web portal up. It was a website where I ranked all the consumer product prices so people can look for the cheapest one. I was trying to emulate Kakaku.com website (http://kakaku.com) which pretty big in Japan at the time except kakaku.com was only ranking up computer peripheral prices, I wanted to rank everything. I wanted to make it a business, but when people discovered the site, I got call from some company wanting to hire me for their projects. I took it and soon I wasnt doing my own thing anymore. I was working hard for others.
The ambition was still there, I quitted everything after my contract expired and try to do my own thing with websites again. It was a great timing because Google Adsense has just started and I saw a way to make money easier. Things didn't go smooth as expected because I had too many ideas and didn't put my focus and effort to what which was working. I was trying to do too much at one time.
In conquest for money, I stumbled into forex trading in 2003. I was overwhelming and tried to teach myself everything about forex. I loved it. I thought to myself that I was pretty smart guy and would someday crack the mystery of forex and be able to millionare. Looking back, for almost 12 years I've poured too much sweat and my hard work into forex without making a dime out of it.
I felt like it was my calling when I started trading forex, it took me so long to realize that I was
wasting my youth, compromising my relationships for an addiction. I was addicted to it. I didnt regret any
of it though, thats life and I learned something.
Mobile App
My interest with mobile app started around 2011. I was trying to get my flight ticket at the travel agency counter, they had a small kiosk with an Ipad on it where you can play with their app. Browsing travel packages, prices and such. I was like wow, this is the future. Cool software is not in the computer anymore, it's in Ipad.
So I spent the next 2 years trying to learn how to create app, xcode programming or any short cut to accomplish it. Never felt so much frustrated in my life before, it was even harder than forex. I couldnt grasp the concept and the programming language. I gave up.
I had an idea to create a marketplace for women products, where people can buy and sell anything to women. It could be clothing, cosmetics, anything for women and women only. My only solution was probably to outsource it, but without money it was impossible. And it's expensive to build a mobile app. Furthermore it will hurt my pride if I dont build my own app/project by myself considering I was able to create websites years earlier.
In March 2013, I took a week off from everything and just sit in any cafe with wi-fi with my laptop and giving myself 1 last time chance to learn from the beginning. This time I chosed Android, I didnt mind much not going for iOS since Android market in my country is about 80% of total mobile phone users.
I came across MJ's book about 2 weeks ago, everything in the book resonate with what I had in mind since I was 19. It was there but I guess it wasnt that concrite as a concept layed-out by MJ. Now I think I've found something that I wanted to follow as if I found it many years ago.
These days I'm already able to create decent apps and I did a few for clients and as personal projects.
My app for the marketplace idea i also coming to an end, I probably going to finish it in a week or two.
I think this is my Fastlane project and intent to make it one, hence the title of this thread. Yes I want to go to Fastlane with my mobile apps.
This Forum
I know I'm not 17 or 19 anymore, I know that I'm merely chasing the years of my life. The fire is still there inside me and I want to bring that fire out.
With so many watching, probably a good thing for me to keep pushing it till I make it. So my intention here is to make this forum works for me, to keep me motivated and stay true to myself and do what it takes to make my idea materialised and executed.
My plan is to keep this thread as my Fastlane journal, and record whatever needed to make it works for me. I'm lucky to have read the Fastlane Millionare book and found this forum.
TQ all & cheers, to be continued.. please excuse my poor writing of English. I'm in South East Asia and English is not my 1st language.
My Story
At the moment I'm 39 years old and January next year I'll be 40. Too be honest I'm flat broke, It has been like this for about 20 years now since I dropped out from college.
When I was 19, I accidently bump into programming and I knew the only way for me to make money was through software development. I spent countless nights not sleeping trying to learn everything I could so I can write a good desktop application. This was 1998 when I bought my own computer. I didn't do anything much with desktop programming except for personal use. In year 2000 someone offered me a job to develop a website for his company, I took it and started learning html, graphics and other thing like database. I tried to learn as quick as I could so I can deliver job and I did. That was the 1st ever I got paid from programming work.
So I learned more to sharpen my skills and by year 2001 I got my own web portal up. It was a website where I ranked all the consumer product prices so people can look for the cheapest one. I was trying to emulate Kakaku.com website (http://kakaku.com) which pretty big in Japan at the time except kakaku.com was only ranking up computer peripheral prices, I wanted to rank everything. I wanted to make it a business, but when people discovered the site, I got call from some company wanting to hire me for their projects. I took it and soon I wasnt doing my own thing anymore. I was working hard for others.
The ambition was still there, I quitted everything after my contract expired and try to do my own thing with websites again. It was a great timing because Google Adsense has just started and I saw a way to make money easier. Things didn't go smooth as expected because I had too many ideas and didn't put my focus and effort to what which was working. I was trying to do too much at one time.
In conquest for money, I stumbled into forex trading in 2003. I was overwhelming and tried to teach myself everything about forex. I loved it. I thought to myself that I was pretty smart guy and would someday crack the mystery of forex and be able to millionare. Looking back, for almost 12 years I've poured too much sweat and my hard work into forex without making a dime out of it.
I felt like it was my calling when I started trading forex, it took me so long to realize that I was
wasting my youth, compromising my relationships for an addiction. I was addicted to it. I didnt regret any
of it though, thats life and I learned something.
Mobile App
My interest with mobile app started around 2011. I was trying to get my flight ticket at the travel agency counter, they had a small kiosk with an Ipad on it where you can play with their app. Browsing travel packages, prices and such. I was like wow, this is the future. Cool software is not in the computer anymore, it's in Ipad.
So I spent the next 2 years trying to learn how to create app, xcode programming or any short cut to accomplish it. Never felt so much frustrated in my life before, it was even harder than forex. I couldnt grasp the concept and the programming language. I gave up.
I had an idea to create a marketplace for women products, where people can buy and sell anything to women. It could be clothing, cosmetics, anything for women and women only. My only solution was probably to outsource it, but without money it was impossible. And it's expensive to build a mobile app. Furthermore it will hurt my pride if I dont build my own app/project by myself considering I was able to create websites years earlier.
In March 2013, I took a week off from everything and just sit in any cafe with wi-fi with my laptop and giving myself 1 last time chance to learn from the beginning. This time I chosed Android, I didnt mind much not going for iOS since Android market in my country is about 80% of total mobile phone users.
I came across MJ's book about 2 weeks ago, everything in the book resonate with what I had in mind since I was 19. It was there but I guess it wasnt that concrite as a concept layed-out by MJ. Now I think I've found something that I wanted to follow as if I found it many years ago.
These days I'm already able to create decent apps and I did a few for clients and as personal projects.
My app for the marketplace idea i also coming to an end, I probably going to finish it in a week or two.
I think this is my Fastlane project and intent to make it one, hence the title of this thread. Yes I want to go to Fastlane with my mobile apps.
This Forum
I know I'm not 17 or 19 anymore, I know that I'm merely chasing the years of my life. The fire is still there inside me and I want to bring that fire out.
With so many watching, probably a good thing for me to keep pushing it till I make it. So my intention here is to make this forum works for me, to keep me motivated and stay true to myself and do what it takes to make my idea materialised and executed.
My plan is to keep this thread as my Fastlane journal, and record whatever needed to make it works for me. I'm lucky to have read the Fastlane Millionare book and found this forum.
TQ all & cheers, to be continued.. please excuse my poor writing of English. I'm in South East Asia and English is not my 1st language.
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