I am the creator

You wouldn’t believe it – it's so amazing to work on projects you think of and start creating on your own. The research you do for it, you cherish like you’re crafting the best thing by yourself. You start by creating a folder, not manually but by writing command line instructions to install your favorite library or framework. You clean up the defaults and set up a clear environment just to write "Hello World" and see if it works. Oh, it's working. Hell yeah!

Then, you grab a pen and paper, brainstorming amazing features. Your new idea is forming right in front of your eyes. That sense of creation, of making something astonishing with your own hands on your machine, is unbeatable.

You dive into building the very first feature you thought of. You start with your skills, maybe borrow a few snippets from some public repo or CodePen, steal bits and pieces. Then you modify it, not because anyone will know, but because you want it to look and behave exactly how you envisioned. Your mind races like a high-speed car, eager to see it run on your machine. Oh snap! You introduce bugs, but you deal with them, and when you finally conquer them and the console is clear, it’s soothing. Zero error messages. Zero warnings. It's perfect. You've built the first feature you wanted to.

Now what? Another feature, probably one you hadn't even thought of yet. You grab your phone and look for inspiration — existing sites, your competitors, even unrelated websites with UIs you admire. All of that combines to spark a new feature idea. And the process repeats. You feel exhausted now. Time for a break. You down that Red Bull you've been saving. Ah, cleansing your teeth, tongue, and mind for fresh typing.

Each day you wake up, excited to return to your machine to see how things are shaping up. But you’ve got chores to do. Ah man! Can I shower later? Wash my clothes later? Actually, I probably shouldn’t write that. People might judge… Oh, screw people. They don’t get it.

I’m the creator. They know nothing.

They’ll never understand how good it feels to send an API request and get data back in JSON format. Isn’t that beautiful? All that response data at your fingertips, ready to use however you want.

They’ll never know that feeling.

Am I dreaming about that bug? Wait, I think my dream just showed me the solution. Let me get back to my machine before I forget it. It works! It works! Damn!

My product, my creation, is looking so good. I want to show it to people. I want attention for it.

But when I do, don’t ask me why I built it. Don’t compare it to other products. Don’t ask what makes it different from this or that.

Business plan? Why? To earn money? I wasn’t thinking about that.

You’re the fool, not me.

So now you're saying I have to do marketing?

SEO? Ad campaigns?

And you're telling me I have to mess with my design and UX to rank in search engines?

Isn’t that boring UI? Doesn’t it look like every other site? I’m not changing my design. Screw search engines.

No monetization? Well, screw monetization too.

I’m building this for myself because I had this idea, this desire to create.

You say someone else’s product is better than mine? Please, let me do my work. I don’t care about competition. I don’t even care if people use my product or not. I just want to build it.

You’re bugging me. Go away. I need time to think about the next feature. I also need to design the logo and think of a name for it. Maybe I’ll add new colors because I’m tired of the monotonous websites these days.

Do you like my VS Code theme? It’s Synthwave '84.

I guess I’ll sleep now. A day well spent. Still so much to do, and I’m excited about it.