Indie Hacking: Dreams or Reality

Published on July 1, 2025

For those who don’t know me, I’m Fesk. I started out as a baker-pastry chef, then worked as a test driver at Goodyear, and now I’m on my way to becoming a developer.

I started learning to code in 2023, self-taught, right at the beginning of the AI boom.
But despite that, I still worked relentlessly to improve my skills and understand the basics of programming.

I probably made every mistake possible.

Looking back, I would have done more personal projects, spent less time solving problems that will never serve me.

Instead, I would have built things for myself, joined communities, started freelancing, stopped following the same Indie Hackers everyone follows, and stopped believing it’s easy.

But when I look around, I see plenty of people like me people who got lost in the noise dreaming of a SaaS with X MRR.
Yes, we can all do it, but even with AI, I still see how complicated it is to build something truly profitable.

Today marks 1 year and 7 months since I started my journey as a developer, and I still haven’t made a single dollar.
So I’m stuck between wanting to build lots of things… and needing to make money. That means working on my skills, learning new technologies, and applying to jobs so I can finally get hired.

I’ll be sharing everything here kind of like a public logbook to track my progress and share whatever I can.