ทวีตที่ปักหมุด
Angel Perozo Prieto
29.8K posts

Angel Perozo Prieto
@angelppreneur
Scaling Companies Through Strategic Branding & Marketing Ecosystems | Turning Traffic into Loyal Customers.
เข้าร่วม Ocak 2023
324 กำลังติดตาม1.4K ผู้ติดตาม

@angelppreneur Awesome story, pana. Great to see you winning nonetheless. Vayaloooo
English

2021: nine months of night shifts in a warehouse.
moving packages while the app I was building wasn't ready.
I had an engineer mastered degree,
but night shift work gave me more money.. faster.
so I sacrificed a few months for a future dream.
everyone around me had given up on their projects years ago.
I told myself I was different.
some days I believed it,
most days I was just moving packages.
that's when I learned:
the journey breaks you or it builds you,
you don't get to choose which one in advance.

English

@evolvee33 In 2018 I drank 7 coffees with whiskey and they ended up kicking me out of the coffee shop...
English

2018. I spent my last money on a MacBook.
my friend and I had this dream - we were going to build the world's best chat application.
we didn't know anything about coding.
I picked Swift (iOS) and started learning from zero.
one and a half years.
every night.
learning,
building,
failing,
starting over,
and somewhere in that process the dream started shifting. it went from "world's best" to "just get it working" to "I don't know what I'm doing anymore."
I lost my confidence. not all at once - slowly.
the challenges weren't just technical. they were the internal kind. the ones that pull you back into old behaviors when you don't know who you are anymore.
so we decided to invest in professionals.
real developers.
I moved from Spain back to Sweden.
started working night shifts at a warehouse. nine months. every paycheck into savings. headphones in at night, listening to something about consciousness while loading trucks in the cold.
together we invested more than +$10k into a development team. they were cheap.
but they were also amateurs..
that year - man. .
back and forth. they didn't understand anything. some days we'd feel hope - real certainty, like this is going to happen. and the next day it was gone. the communication was terrible. the app became trash. we suffered through the whole process until one day we just said enough.
there I was. more than a year wasted. more than 10k gone. an unfinished app that didn't work.
but we had some money left.
not enough to build, but enough for one more bet.
we found a company in Europe - more expensive, but real. and we said:
let's just build the design and see what happens. the money for development will come when it comes.
and I know that sounds insane.
but after years of this - the setbacks, the bad teams, the falling apart, the rebuilding. not just the external stuff but the internal stuff. the beliefs. the identity. the resistance. somewhere in all of that we learned something I still can't fully put into words.
we learned to let go. not quit. let go.
there's a difference most people never discover.
the day came when we needed money to actually develop the app. we didn't have it. but somehow we got a loan from the bank. and the woman giving us the approval looked at our file and said:
"normally in your situation you shouldn't get this type of loan. I don't know how you got it. but here you go."
we laughed. because for the first time in our lives we'd actually surrendered to the flow of life. didn't force anything. didn't chase people with money, or worry about a future situation. just trusted something we couldn't explain.
and there we were. with the exact amount we needed (coincidence ? nope..)
one year later we launched. MemoChat. App Store and Google Play (check it out)
a couple weeks ago I was back in the old pattern.
trying to force the next phase. chasing investors. hating every second of it. because I don't chase. I never did well with it. and the energy of forcing people with money and then waiting for their permission to build - that's not me.
then I stumbled on a YouTube video about Claude Code.
an AI that writes code.
I already had the app in Flutter. the architecture was there. I have an engineering mind - master's degree, logical thinking, I know code to a certain level. so I thought.. why not.
one week. that's how long I've been at this.
and I don't have the word for it. I've never been this pumped. I actually feel like I have the power to build this now - faster and better than anything before.
funny pattern.
I stopped forcing. and the thing appeared. every single time.
this was never about the app. the entrepreneurial journey was always the spiritual one. every wall, every loss, every collapse was the same lesson:
stop gripping.
I'm going to keep updating this here. but if you're in your own version of this story right now -
welcome to the game.
it's time to EVOLVEE.




English

@FrontierBDesign It's completely absurd, 99% of people think that way, which is why only 1% succeed at the end of the day.
English

@angelppreneur Incompletely get it. Seems like the way way. What I don’t get is how you can believe in growth without investment.
English

@MrResultss Those kinds of people are like a disease that slowly kills you.
English

@angelppreneur They want everything handed to them with very little to no effort. They’ve been so programmed for “quick wins” that it’s destroyed their ability to delay gratification. They’ve HAVE to break this way of thinking.
English




