I Found A Way To Copy My Brain On Internet
I remember the day I decided to quit. It was November and I knew I’ve hit the ceiling. Even more, I realized that further moving up the ranks — no matter 1 or 2 levels up — I would still not be able to leave a footprint I wanted.
My name is Max and I work in Finance. Not just any finance though, but a rather big and otherwise excellent department, a part of multi-national multi-billion dollar company. The budgets we talked were measured in millions and the decisions we made impacted thousands. Business cases we calculated had a strategic impact on the company future and the management needed to be informed about the company daily life in the most accurate and concise way imaginable.
There was only one problem - I grew out of it. Completely.
It was November and I was, being mildly depressed, watching YouTube videos (I don’t really remember which ones, just the fact). And there all of a sudden, popped an ad of Udemy which was offering a Unity bootcamp course or something similar. I dismissed the ad and carried on, but it did its job - I started to pivot, without even realizing it yet.
See, I was and still am, a very nerdy character deep inside. As a teenager I read the Lord of the Rings and tons of fantasy and science fiction books. I played video games on the family PC since 1990’s and remember the original Mortal Kombat and Sid Meyer’s Civilization. Han Solo was my role model and I enjoyed LAN parties before it was cool.
Over time I set this part aside but never forgot it. So after a decade of corporate living, marathons and triathlons and business trips to Europe, it woke up triggered by an Udemy add on YouTube.
After a while, I could create a level and inhibit it with characters. It was a mere experiment, it never took off, but I learned a few very important lessons. First, I was able to learn how to code (some very rudimentary C# to keep along the course). Second, for the first time I saw a product of my mind in the exact form I meant it. And third, I finally had the means to reach out to the world.
Anyways, I got on Udemy and found myself studying about iOS (I’m an Apple fan), then Swift, then databases, then cloud computing, UX and all of a sudden I realized that I know enough to write my own app. A sloppy one for sure, but I never claimed to be the coding guru. I have my major in Economics and minor in Management, so that’s quite a feat for non-engineer brain (or so I thought).
So an idea came up relatively quick - I would have my own business and I would help people by consulting them on business and company management topics. But I would only be able to serve a very limited number of customers at a time. So I needed something to have a better reach. And the puzzle started to assemble - now I knew the coding part and was able to put the methods that I have worked on for all theses years into an app.
More so, I know how an enterprise software bundle typically works in a big company - after being exposed to it for years on both the user and devops side. So, fast forward!
The year is 2019 and I know the following:
Business metrics and key indicators
Management requirements and data visualization best practices
Real-world business problem solving skills
Primitive knowledge of iOS, Swift, SQL, AWS, GCS
Agile development and Lean organizations principles
And with this package, I am building a company that is solving a fundamental problem for startups - a lack of business knowledge. One app that is an enterprise tool, a business planner and a key metrics tracker - and all of it preconfigured and packed with my domain knowledge on corporate finance and business processes.
Imagine, being a startup founder, you have a 24/7 access to a CEO who is a huge geek and lives in an app.
That’s what I’m working on - as a one-man-army for the time being, but I need someone who’s excellent in coding too. Being bootstrapped puts a huge overhead on my efficiency and I cannot wait to get launched.
Check out my website to learn more about the app: www.flexceo.com
And don’t forget about the features: https://www.flexceo.com/features
My Product Hunt page: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/flexceo