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Start small
The breakfast insight While I was having breakfast with my wife this morning, she was grumbling that she wasn’t rich enough to help people. I was curious why she would need lots of money to help others. She explains that she wanted to make a real impact like successful people (etc. Gates Foundation). Volunteering or […]
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A list of all my projects
This is a list of all my projects since my dad bought me my first computer. It includes apps, websites, and hobby projects. I made a wide range of stuff so it might be a good idea to write a post to keep track of them. It is sort of like a resume. It also […]
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Escape the box
“They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they go […]
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Stop being boring
This week, I felt pretty depressed and lost my motivation and focus. After launching Space4, I got some signups from HackerNews, but no one was really using the app. Including myself. “Will people even use this? Am I doing the wrong thing again?”, I wondered. It sucks. This is not unfamiliar to me because I have failed […]
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Solve your own problem
The Open Source world embraced this mantra a long time ago — they call it “scratching your own itch.” For the open source developers, it means they get the tools they want, delivered the way they want them. But the benefit goes much deeper. As the designer or developer of a new application, you’re faced […]
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Don’t dismiss an idea easily
And just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of creativity with a rare and a wonderful reverence. You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily […]
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My first startup sold for 1 million dollar
In 2015, my friends and I started our first startup, which is to build a smart oven called Fun Oven. We had a huge vision. We wanted to build an oven that cooks by itself with minimal human interaction; like an iRobot for baking. With a built-in camera, a digital scale, and AI technology, it […]
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How much time do we have left?
I always thought I am a hardworking person, and I should’ve achieved a lot. However, when I reflect on what I have done in the past year, I was often surprised that I did not really accomplish anything! Steve Job famously said, “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” It is […]
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The most valuable business lesson I learned
The revolutionary Bible app One day in 2017, I came up with a genius app idea. I wanted to build a Bible app where people can read Bible verses to grow a flower. There are millions of downloads in Bible apps and 2.38 billion Christians. The market must be huge, I thought. In addition, human […]
Hey, I am Patrick.
I love building softwares and writing about what I learn. This site is my digital laboratory where I document what I’ve learned and created along the journey. You can say hi to me on Twitter.
