I failed 3 startups by 19, here’s my story:
But that’s not the story.
This is.*
At 16, I started working.
Not because it was cool.
Not because I had it figured out.
Because I couldn’t stand the feeling
of sitting still.
By 17, I was building my first startup.
I thought it’d make me rich.
It didn’t.
It made me disciplined.
Then I failed.
Tried again. Failed again.
Then once more.
3 startups.
0 wins.
A graveyard of Google Docs, half-shipped MVPs, and late-night breakdowns.
Most people would’ve stopped.
Said, “maybe it’s not for me.”
I said:
“Cool. Now I know what doesn’t work.”
While my friends were in college,
I was in Notion.
While they posted parties,
I posted wireframes.
No team.
No investors.
No breaks.
Just me, my iPad, and my obsession.
Then something shifted.
One Sunday night, I hit a wall.
I was coding my writing app (Vibe)
and I couldn’t focus.
Every little bug triggered me.
I wanted to throw it all away.
But instead… I sat down.
And asked myself one question:
“What if I built a solution
to the problem inside me?”
That question changed everything.
I started building something for myself.
Not a shiny tool.
Not a startup idea.
A system to force me to work
when my motivation died.
That’s how FORGE was born.
Not out of strategy.
Out of survival.
A productivity OS
that doesn’t motivate you—
it locks you in.
No escape. No dopamine.
Just focus. Or pay the price.
It was raw.
Aggressive.
Unforgiving.
Just like the voices in my head
when I feel like I’m not enough.
And weirdly?
People loved it.
At the same time, I kept working on Vibe—
a writing app for creators who write from feeling,
not structure.
I was tired of writing software
that killed the soul of the story.
So I made something beautiful.
Minimal. Emotional.
For writers like me.
And that brings me to now.
Where I’m building something bigger:
IMAGINARA
a creative company for people who refuse to choose between art and ambition.
We make tools.
We tell stories.
We design systems for people
who live in the space between
discipline and dream.
It’s the studio I wish existed
when I was failing in silence.
I’m not here to go viral.
I’m here to go deep.
I’m building in public now.
So if you’re a founder, writer, builder, or misfit
who sees the world a little differently—
you’ll probably see yourself in my journey.
The products are just reflections.
The real project is me.
And I’m just getting started.