# Two Years for a Journey ### I Still Remember the First Lines of Code I Wrote for My Own Platform When the world already had **WordPress**, **Shopify**, **Laravel**, **Flask**, **Spring**, and countless others — I chose my own path. I started building a platform from scratch with **Golang** (a language from Google). Looking back, it was probably foolish. Those first days were rough — constant rewrites, confusion, countless restarts. But I kept going, because somewhere between frustration and curiosity, I found joy. I had already written code in **Angular** and many other frameworks, but eventually, I decided to walk alone — with **Vanilla JS**. I’m a stubborn person. I like to handle things my own way, even if that means it’s harder. Out there, there are millions of people doing different things — but I gave two years (and more) to this dream. I’ve done delivery gigs, freelance work, websites, Facebook ads — anything to fund my passion. I’ve written endless lines of **CSS**, **JavaScript**, **Golang**, and **HTML**. I designed everything myself, paid for my own servers — all for my little cloud of dreams. > “You don’t have to be great to start. > But you have to start to be great.” I don’t argue with existing platforms. I simply chose my own path. ### One Day I Thought About Affiliate Marketing Out of nowhere, it hit me — why not make money online, like the first days I fell in love with the web? I remembered my early blogging days on **Blogspot** — tinkering, learning from tutorials, copying snippets of **CSS** and **HTML** from other people’s themes, and feeling ecstatic when it finally worked. That was my first introduction to **MMO** (Make Money Online). I read everything I could find — tutorials, forums, guides — and taught myself bit by bit. No mentor, no guidance, just persistence. But eventually, I gave up for a while — because I wasn’t making any money. I tried everything — URL shorteners, ad views — but never earned a single dollar. And even now, technically, I still haven’t withdrawn a dime from MMO. But this time… I have direction. I have skills. ### The First Signs of Hope from MMO There was a moment when I thought: *Maybe it’s better to just get a job.* Because my server couldn’t handle what I was doing. Just two weeks ago, I was running **20 websites** on a **1-core, 1GB RAM VPS**. Then came the moment I went public with **Samdy** — and the system hit its limits. I didn’t want to abandon it halfway. But I realized maybe I needed to take on some work for a while — to let **Google** learn what I was building. **Samdy.vn** was my first real MMO project. It started showing small signs of life — about **~20,000 VND/day**, just enough to pay for the VPS. But it gave me hope. I told myself: I’ll work a bit more, earn money, and use it to fuel this dream — to pay for my servers, to pay for my future. Over the past three months, Samdy learned **100,000 products**. In one more year, I want it to reach **1,000,000**. That’s the goal — a small dream turning into something real. > I still remember those days — the ones filled with my very first lines of code. > I can’t even count how many times I deleted and rewrote them. > Sometimes they were clumsy, sometimes stupid — but they were mine, and that made me happy. **NOTES** - Article originally posted in 2022 and reposted - AI-powered translation Read the original Vietnamese version here: [https://hnq.vn/blog/2-nam-qua-cho-mot-hanh-trinh](https://huynhnhanquoc.com/blog/2-nam-qua-cho-mot-hanh-trinh) **More about me:** - Blog: [huynhnhanquoc.com](https://huynhnhanquoc.com) - GitHub: [github.com/huynhnhanquoc](https://github.com/huynhnhanquoc) - Open Source: [github.com/kitmodule](https://github.com/kitmodule) - Buy me a Coffee: [buymeacoffee.com/huynhnhanquoc](https://buymeacoffee.com/huynhnhanquoc) - Keep me Dreaming: [ko-fi.com/huynhnhanquoc](https://ko-fi.com/huynhnhanquoc) Thanks for reading Huỳnh Nhân Quốc Blog’s article! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.