Two job rejections in two days. I started my fourth Chrome extension.

Four months in. £0 revenue. No income. Two rejections this week alone.

One of them I genuinely thought I'd got. Trial shift went well. Manager said I did good. Team showed me the systems like I was already one of them. Week of silence. Then no.

This morning another one landed.

I'm a CS student building HelixLabs solo. No funding. No team. No safety net. Every rejection puts more weight on HelixLabs actually working.

So I did what I know how to do. I built.

Fourth Chrome extension is done. Can't say too much yet as it's not live. But it's the sharpest thing I've built. The web is designed to make you believe things before you've thought about them. This tries to fix that.

Four extensions. Still £0. Still here.

What do you do when everything feels like it's standing still?

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