10k to $10k

Unbothered. Moisturised. Happy. In my lane. Focused. Flourishing.

10k Hours Progress (11.73%)

$10k/mo Progress (26.24%)

Milestones

Aug 2025
Official first post
Dec 2022
Launched fnb.tools
Dec 2022
Day One

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8 years

24 December 2022

Today marks the 8th anniversary of one of the most important decisions I've made in my life. It lifted half of my depression, and I'm the happiest I've ever been...

Earned: $0.00 // Time: 1.5 hours

No one's at work

23 December 2022

Decided to frak everything today and just code on F&B Tools. No one's at work anyway because it's two days to Christmas, so no one's checking on me. Figured out...

Earned: $0.00 // Time: 8.0 hours

Free spirit

22 December 2022

Today I'm grateful for a free spirit life. No schedules to stick to. Nothing bad happens if I don't do work 😬 (But nothing good happens either... 💀) Covered a big...

Earned: $0.00 // Time: 3.0 hours

Off-peak privilege

21 December 2022

Integrated a new delivery partner. Live test went smoothly. Also caught up with Jackie today. There might be a chance to expand Maynuu into Kenya. Then went out...

Earned: $50.00 // Time: 4.0 hours

Focus

20 December 2022

I'm such a time-waster and so mood-based. No urgency over anything. Is this depression? Or just too easygoing? This changes in 2023. Not gonna push myself to the...

Earned: $0.00 // Time: 10.0 hours

Client work - PB

19 December 2022

Product packaging design

Earned: $435.96 // Time: 5.76 hours

Day One

19 December 2022

Woke up late because I slept late - that's on me. Tasks got pushed down, time boxes shortened, and some not done at all. But I still did 2 hours deep work on...

Earned: $673.57 // Time: 10.0 hours

Client work - F

14 December 2022

Web & Shopify development | Workflow automation

Earned: $1,491.24 // Time: 19.35 hours

Client work - R (9th rep)

28 November 2022

Web development | Social media content

Earned: $1,445.00 // Time: 6.0 hours

Client work - F

10 November 2022

Web & Shopify development | Workflow automation

Earned: $1,296.98 // Time: 17.14 hours

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About

I have a degree in Marketing Management from University of Otago, New Zealand. I ran a successful restaurant for 13 years in Singapore, a brutally competitive market for F&B. I also ran a bakery for 7 of those years. I sold both businesses for 6 figures in 2019.

Then I taught myself to code, and have been working in software since. In 2021, I was hired as General Manager for a restaurant software startup, where I helped market and grow the app to $400k/year revenue.

On the side, I started building my own small projects, aimed at near-passive income. So began a 10,000-hour-long experiment to see if I can make $10k/month by "f*cking around and finding out". This blog is a daily record of the real hours spent & dollars earned.

Banner art L-R © Me, Citadel 9, me, me, me.

Inspirations:
Daily blogging - Alex West
Design - JWZ, p0libius
10k Hours - Ryan Kulp

Stats

Journey start: 28 March 2022

Progress logs: 226

∑ Time spent: 1172.7 hours (11.73% to 10k)

Avg time/mo: 23.1 hours

∑ Dollars earned: $133,271.02

$/mo: $2,624.04 (26.24% to $10k/m)

$/hour: $113.64