Opening up Dev.to today, my feed is flooded with DEV Wrapped 2025 posts.
Commit streaks, reading stats, shiny new badges — all inspiring in their own way.
But it hit me: for me, 2025 wasn’t about the numbers.
It was about survival.
I’m the creator of Textideo.
If I had to visualize my year, it wouldn’t be a smooth upward graph — it would look more like a flatline… followed by a heartbeat.
This is my unofficial Textideo Wrapped 2025 — the unfiltered reality of building a product from scratch in six months.
📅 June: The Honeymoon Phase
The story starts on a hot afternoon in June 2025.
Back then, Textideo was just a vague idea in my head.
No code. No servers. Just a newly purchased domain and an empty IDE.
I still remember the rush of writing the first few lines of code.
No technical debt. No angry user emails. Just pure creativity and infinite possibility.
I told myself:
“This is going to be big.”
🐛 July – September: The Trough of Sorrow
Then reality hit — hard.
As my Figma sketches turned into complex logic, and my “perfect” local demo broke the moment it hit production, the excitement vanished.
These were the darkest months.
While the tech world in 2025 was hyping up AI-assisted “vibe coding” — making it sound like software builds itself — I was deep in the trenches as a solo founder:
- Refactoring database schemas that didn’t scale
- Fighting the absolute nightmare of mobile responsiveness
- Chasing memory leaks at 2 a.m.
There were many nights staring at analytics showing zero active users, wondering if I should quit.
Textideo felt like a black hole — consuming time, energy, and money… and giving nothing back.
💡 October – November: The Pivot Point
The turning point came in late fall.
I stopped chasing a “perfect,” feature-packed platform.
Instead, I focused on core value.
I polished the interactions that mattered, fixed the bugs users actually hit, and finally worked up the courage to share Textideo with smaller communities.
I still remember my hands shaking when I saw the first real user registration.
Then the second.
Then the third.
The numbers were tiny compared to big platforms — but one metric mattered:
time on page was going up.
That was proof that Textideo was solving a real problem for someone.
🚀 December: First Light
Today is December 20th.
Textideo is still far from perfect.
There are bugs I haven’t found yet, and the UI won’t win design awards anytime soon.
But for the first time, I see the chart moving up and to the right.
I survived.
The grind of 2025 — SEO battles, performance refactors, constant doubt — is finally starting to pay off.
We’re seeing real traction.
🌱 Thoughts Heading into 2026
DEV Wrapped stats belong to the past.
Textideo is just getting started.
If 2025 taught me one thing, it’s this:
Consistency beats intensity.
In an era where AI can generate boilerplate in seconds, the real skill is still showing up — grinding through the hard parts and genuinely listening to users.
To everyone who visited or used Textideo this year:
Thank you.
Here’s to shipping more in 2026 🚀
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