The second-to-last step

Time for a personal-appearence upgrade

After what feels like a decade of building, it’s time to start focusing on my appearance and a brand-new CV.

”Wait, it is a decade! 😂”

What has been built during this time?

1. It all started in 2014 with sales on my own platform and security services for individuals. After thousands of tests, it turned into a classifieds site in 2024—Up and running!
   1:1 Collaborations with suppliers, wholesalers, and manufacturers globally. Result: 360 contracts!
2. Swedish social forum: I’ve tested platforms in every shape and programming language before arriving at Placebit, a social forum where people can engage in public discussions! For us, for communication, entertainment, and interaction. -Up and running!
3. The news site Youzine: It started as Ozone in 2004, then Nyhetspalatset in 2010, then Newspalace, then Webstynx, then Nybble Tidning in 2021, then OP1 in 2022, and now since 2023, it’s Youzine—a culmination of my experience!
4. Print-on-demand: Art, clothes, graphics—these products are now available globally and primarily sold as ”merch,” branded items tied to specific books and music! They’re available in about 20 stores.
   4:1 I started seriously producing artwork in 2019.
   4:2 My art galleries have spanned the globe since 2010.
5. Books: I wrote and published my first books in 2013. Today, they are available worldwide in 5 languages.
6. Music: I began producing music in 2006, and by around 2010, I had gig work and was selling songs. The tinkering continued on a small scale until 2024, when I gained access to a brand-new, fully equipped AI studio. Now, previous tracks are being remixed into hybrid music, and I’m getting the chance to create new work in a creative renaissance.

Was it ”just” about starting to build?
-Not at all! Aside from the thousands of physical crash tests, I developed a ”try-and-fail” approach to everything I worked on. Failed books, paintings that didn’t even meet preschool standards, sales from my own stores where customers went crazy because of bad suppliers. In the beginning, I didn’t have the faintest idea about web applications or internet development.

From 2004, with a surge in 2013, a peak in 2016, and continuing until 2022, I studied everything I needed to know to build, to create contracts, to understand customers, to understand laws, to program, and to draft agreements…

Challenges:
There have been immense financial challenges, physical challenges with illness, and clashes with authorities and big corporations. It was a struggle just to open textbooks, and half the time I wanted to throw up when new academic literature was thrown in front of me. -How was I supposed to fit it all in my head?

Recession, unemployment, and a chaotic mix of meritocracy and bureaucracy don’t exactly help when you’re trying to build your own opportunities.

But now, I have the platform—a number of years later and with a much deeper humility for life and everyone around me. Now, it’s time to look in the mirror, dust off the suit, leave behind the crumbling computer, and start branding and promoting myself!

-HOHAA! 💪🤛