Just build something. Anything

TL;DR: By developing and building products and side projects you experience difficulties, and find problems and opportunities that you may have not found otherwise.

For most of my life I've had a really hard time saving money. I remember my dad used to tell me to wait just a little more time and save up just a little more money to buy a better Spider-Man action figure. Most of the times I would buy the cheapest, ugliest and more fragile one. Just because I couldn't wait a little longer to spend my hard-earned money.

The thing is: you can't go on like that when you need to be a responsible adult that your family can count on. Don't get me wrong I have a great job as a full stack developer. I'm earning more money than I thought I could at this stage of my career. But even so, every month I end up with just a few pennies in my pocket. And the worst thing is I'm not saving any money. I don't even have money saved for emergencies.

I knew I needed to change gears and I started reading books and blogs, and listening podcasts about financial education. I also started tracking my expenses and goals. But every time I left it within a month. I just forgot about it and continued spending money like there was no tomorrow. Then I read Atomic Habits by James Clear, and something clicked on me. I realized I'm used to getting immmediate rewards (like buying a new Marvel Legends action figure instead of saving for a new screen to work with), and that I lack of a system that could help me to control and know exactly where I'm standing with each month's payroll, savings, and expenses.

This is how I started building feasibles.app, a financial goals tracking app. My attempt to kill two birds with one stone: Building a tool that could help me in managing my finances, setting up feasible goals, and limiting my expenses. And start building assets that could help me get out of the rat race.

For a while I've been trying to build a product. Any product. A super simple product. Just to learn how to manage it, how to build it, what are the ups and what are the downs of bootstraping a business. Maybe I could earn some money with it, maybe not. But the most important thing for me is to start filling my portfolio with bets, experience and products that can spin off in other oportunities or products.