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Huỳnh Nhân Quốc
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A Dreamy Developer Finding Where I Belong

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When I Didn’t Know Who I Was

Lately, I’ve been revisiting my old writings. Some are from five years ago, lost among half-finished ideas. Some I never dared to hit Publish. Some I wrote and deleted because I didn’t know who I was writing for.

Now I ask AI to translate them into English, trying different versions, comparing every sentence, searching for what truly feels like my voice. They may be small pieces of writing, but for me, they are part of a quiet pilgrimage—a way to rediscover myself, line by line.

I no longer write to be read. I write to listen to myself.

When I first started coding, I didn’t know where I was going. I just knew I loved creating things. A piece of code that worked. A product that someone actually used. Something I could call my own. I never imagined I would one day become the Dreamy Developer.

I wrote small blogs in little communities about programming, side projects, and fragments of life. I built websites, wrote, and shared like someone trying to find a corner of the Internet to belong to. But nowhere truly felt like home.

I learned and worked with C#, then Angular. Then one day, I met Golang, and everything started to change.

Golang taught me neatness, pragmatism, and minimal thinking. It was not flashy or demanding, but it forced me to understand the essence of problems. No hiding ignorance. No masking code. It reflected my own growth, teaching me to live honestly with myself.

Starting from Nothing

I still remember those early days. Just an old laptop and a vague belief that I could make something happen.

I wrote my first lines of code for DNS, built my first template architectures, and got my first client. Then Samdy was born and reached the Top 100 e-commerce websites in Vietnam.

At one point it earned about 600 USD per month, even when barely running. Later, I moved into affiliate marketing. I wrote content, ran ads, and stayed up countless nights optimizing campaigns. At one point, I earned 2,500 USD per month with around 800 USD in costs.

I also received awards like First Prize in “Nhìn lại hành trình” and Second Prize in “Kể đi chờ chi.”

But I realized that numbers and titles cannot define me. They are experiences, checkpoints that help me understand effort, limits, and myself.

Even now, I earn a modest income each month.

More importantly, I still walk this path—to write, to code, to share, to live quietly and persistently with my dream.

Realizing I Am an Indie Hacker

At first, I thought I was just building software out of passion. Looking back, I realized I had been an Indie Hacker all along.

Indie Hackers build products and companies independently, without investors or big corporations. They bootstrap, work independently, and often share their journey publicly.

That is exactly what I have been doing. Creating small tools, tiny platforms, learning, sharing, and living alongside them.

I started with nothing but willpower, small lines of code. And now I build products that help others. I am not just coding anymore. I am creating a small world of my own.

Learning from Build in Public

Then I discovered Build in Public, and it clicked. Share.

When you are right, you guide others. When you are wrong, you guide yourself.
You do not need success to share. You do not need perfection. Being real is enough.

I began writing again about what I do, think, and try. Even failed projects, unfinished code, and half-built frameworks. The more I shared, the more I realized the journey is about understanding.

Understanding why I code. Understanding why I continue even when no one is watching. Understanding myself.

No Titles, Just Definition

I no longer chase labels. I am not just a coder, marketer, or indie hacker. I am someone who writes, codes, reflects, and dreams. Someone standing between technology and emotion, between logic and intuition.

I now call myself a Dreamy Indie Stack Developer. I build my own small technical universe in my own way, at my own pace.

I do not have a team. I do not have investors. All I need is space to experiment, fail, learn, and share.

I create small but genuine things like KitModule, KitJS, or other tools I find beautiful and useful. Maybe someone else will find them helpful too.

The Journey Is Home

This journey has never been easy. Some days I want to quit. Some days I look around and everyone seems ahead.

But I chose this path not because it is easy, but because it is mine. My dream.

Every line of code, every blog post, every idea is part of me. I no longer need to search for where I belong. The journey itself is home.

I write. I code. I dream. This is the life of a Dreamy Developer.

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