Dear 2022 Me: You’re Not Lazy. You’re Building Backwards.

Hey.
It’s me — well, you — from 2026.

You’re probably hunched over a desk right now, tabs everywhere, trying to juggle:

• A job you don't fully love,
• A half-baked side project,
• And a productivity system that makes you feel like a failure.

Let me say something first:

You’re not lazy.
You’re just building everything in the wrong order.

And I wish I could reach through time and show you what I know now.

So I’m writing this to you.

☠️ Part 1: Productivity Isn’t the Problem. Prioritization Is.

Back then, you were chasing the “perfect system.”
You thought:

• The right app would fix your motivation.
• A new tool would make your ideas click.
• More planning meant better results.

Nope.

Here’s what I learned the hard way:

The only system that works is one that ends in shipping.

Productivity without output is just glorified procrastination.

🧱 Part 2: Build Tiny, Real Things — Not Castles in the Sky

You had big dreams:

• The next indie SaaS.
• The AI-powered platform.
• The community platform for X.

Cool ideas. But too big, too vague, too heavy.

You were overwhelmed before you wrote a single line of code.

If I could whisper in your ear back then, I’d say:

“Pick something small. Useful. Ugly even.
Ship it in 10 days. Then see what happens.”

That’s how things changed for me.

🧪 Part 3: The Day I Flipped Everything

One random night in 2025, I deleted all my side project boards.
All the ideas. All the endless Trello cards.
Gone.

And I made a new rule:

🧩 Only one project.
⏳ Only 10 days.
💡 Only one goal: launch it.

I used tools I already knew.
I stole templates.
I focused on solving one tiny problem.

Day 7: I shared the MVP on Reddit.
Day 10: First 3 sales.
Day 14: Feedback + first testimonial.
Day 20: I had more momentum than I’d had in the past 12 months.

🧠 Part 4: The Real Productivity Stack (No BS)

Want to know what actually helped?

Not some $20/month SaaS or a fancy habit tracker.

It was:

• Airtable (simple as hell DB for MVPs)
• Astro.build (fast frontend, beautiful out of the box)
• Stripe + Tally.so (payment in 10 mins)
• Supabase (because Firebase is still messy)
• Cron jobs + Python scripts (for automations no one sees)

But here’s the kicker:

I didn’t wait until everything was “ready.”
I started while the landing page still had lorem ipsum.

🚀 Part 5: The Micro SaaS System I Wish I Had Back Then

I turned that experience into a framework:
Build fast. Validate faster. Launch ugly.
Fix it later.

And now it’s a course.

🛠️ Launch a Micro SaaS in 10 Days

• No fluff.
• No 50-hour lectures.
• You build one thing — and learn by doing it.

💸 Price? Just $1 for the first 50 people.
Then it goes to $99. No fake urgency. Just real value for action takers.

👉 Try it here

🔥 Final Words to My 2022 Self

Here’s the advice I wish someone had drilled into me:

1. Don’t start with branding. Start with solving.
2. If you’re stuck, shrink the scope.
3. Tools won’t save you. Momentum will.
4. Nobody cares about perfect. They care about useful.
5. Shipping > thinking. Every. Single. Time.

I don’t know where you are now.
Maybe you're stuck on project #7.
Maybe you feel like you’re falling behind.

But here’s what I know:

You’re one small launch away from real momentum.

And I’ll be here — waiting for you in 2026 —
with a high-five and a micro SaaS that actually shipped.

✌️