Five years off the internet. Three careers that didn’t stick. One wall I kept hitting — and the realization that was always there, waiting.
So I’ve been off social media for about five years, and I’m back. My name is Tri, I’m living in Australia doing my master’s in IT. But before I get into what I’m building now — let me tell you the full story, because where I am right now makes a lot more sense when you see where I started.
It was the startup boom. Investors were throwing money at anyone building digital products, and I thought — this is my moment. I was young, excited, ready to catch the wave and build something I actually cared about. No capital, no experience. Eventually, I failed.
So I tried something else. I became a full-time content creator — scripting, filming, editing, all of it by myself. And I genuinely loved it. The channel was growing, slowly but it was moving. Some of my subscribers later said I ghosted them.
Honestly, yeah. I kind of did. Something happened — personal, I won’t get into it here — and the motivation just left. I stopped. Seeing how big the creator space has blown up in the last five years, I do think about that chapter sometimes. If I’d kept going, who knows.
But I don’t regret it, because it planted something in me I didn’t quite understand yet.
Then digital marketing, and this one actually clicked. I liked the strategy side — understanding how people think, how to reach them. But you need ad budget to make it work, and I kept hitting that same wall.
Three completely different paths. The same wall, every time. And one day it just hit me — every single time, I was chasing the same thing.
I just want to build something cool, on my own, freely. I’m a moody person — ideas pop up out of nowhere, and when that happens I need to act on them immediately. No budget approval, no asking permission. I need to own the tools and own the whole environment. None of those paths ever gave me that.
I found coding in 2021. Bitcoin was going crazy, everyone was talking about tech, and I was at a startup doing digital marketing — but sitting near the IT team. I started watching what the developer was doing, and something clicked.
I’d been on computers every day since I was a kid. I liked math, logic, problem-solving. It already matched who I was — I just hadn’t realised it until that moment. I fell in love fast. I left my job, signed up for a bootcamp, got serious. Eventually became a fullstack developer.
And here’s the thing about coding that made it different from everything I’d tried before: I could build a real, fully functional product completely on my own. Just me, a laptop, and wifi — before spending a single dollar. For the first time, I actually owned the environment.
After that, the tech winter hit. IT jobs in Indonesia slowed down, a lot of people were getting laid off, and hiring froze. But at the same time, a door opened — a chance to go abroad. I wasn’t going to say no. So here I am now, in Australia, doing my master’s in IT, and building on everything I’ve put together so far.
Then AI came into the picture, and honestly it changed a lot. I’m basically a one-person studio now — I can build the product, handle the marketing, create the content. All of it, by myself. Everything I’ve learned across every chapter — the business instincts, the marketing thinking, the content creation, the code — it’s all finally making sense together, for the first time.
I’ve always been a builder. I just finally have the right tools.
And I’m just getting started.