Back when I was around 11 or 12 years old, I used to come home from school feeling bored most of the time.
I didn’t really know what I wanted to do back then, and honestly, my computer slowly became the thing I spent most of my time with.
One random day while browsing online, I came across an ad that said something like:
“Earn money online in less than a day.”
It was obviously spam.
But instead of ignoring it, I got curious.
I opened a new tab and searched:
“How to earn money online.”
That one search probably changed the direction of my life without me realizing it.
At first, I started exploring Paid-To-Click (PTC) websites and random online forums.
The earnings were tiny, almost meaningless, but that wasn’t really the important part.
What fascinated me was the idea that people could actually build things online and make money from them.
That completely changed how I looked at the internet.
Until then, I mostly saw the internet as a place for games, videos, and entertainment.
But suddenly, it started feeling like a completely different world where people were creating businesses, websites, systems, and opportunities from their computers.
And honestly, that curiosity slowly turned into obsession.
As I spent more time online, I became increasingly interested in websites themselves.
A lot of websites looked outdated or difficult to use, and I kept thinking:
“Why can’t this look better?”
That question pushed me into learning HTML and CSS.
At first, I had absolutely no roadmap.
I learned through YouTube videos, random tutorials, forums, Facebook groups, and pure experimentation.
Most of my early learning process was honestly just:
- breaking layouts
- changing random code
- fixing mistakes
- testing things repeatedly
and trying to understand why one line of code worked while another didn’t
Especially the semicolons in CSS.
I still remember how confusing those felt in the beginning.
But the interesting part was that I genuinely enjoyed the process.
I would spend hours changing colors, moving sections around, experimenting with layouts, and trying to recreate things I saw online.
Most people around me probably saw it as wasting time.
But for me, it felt exciting.
By the time I was around 13, I had already started creating small websites, logos, banners, forum graphics, and simple design projects.
Back then, I used the name Designz5233 online.
Honestly, I still laugh when I think about that name now.
My very first projects were either completely free or paid very little.
I simply wanted experience.
I wanted to improve.
I wanted to see if people would actually use something I created.
One of my first paid projects was just a small homepage design worth a few dollars.
Financially, it wasn’t important at all.
But mentally, it changed everything.
For the first time, I realized: “Maybe I can actually build something real from this.”
From there, things slowly started becoming more serious.
In 2015, I started UnikBrushes.
At first, it wasn’t some big agency with systems, teams, or structure.
It was simply me trying to improve my skills, work with clients, and slowly build experience through real projects.
Most of the early work involved:
- logos
- banners
- simple websites
- WordPress projects
- small freelance work
- forum graphics
- basic branding work
I made mistakes constantly.
There were projects where I had no idea what I was doing.
There were phases where things didn’t work at all.
I spent months learning things that never became useful.
I underpriced myself.
I experimented with random ideas that failed.
But honestly, I think those phases helped me more than the successful ones.
A lot of what I know today came from:
- experimenting
- failing
- rebuilding
- adapting
and staying consistent long enough to improve
Over time, I slowly became interested in much more than just designing websites.
I started learning about:
- SEO
- branding
- digital marketing
- paid advertising
- user experience
- automation
- content systems
- business strategy
- and growth systems
That shift completely changed my perspective.
I stopped looking at websites as standalone projects.
I started seeing them as part of a much bigger business system.
A website alone wasn’t enough anymore.
Businesses needed visibility.
They needed structure.
They needed better user experience.
They needed systems that actually helped them grow.
That mindset eventually became one of the biggest foundations behind how I built UnikBrushes.
As the years passed, things continued evolving.
In 2021, I officially registered UnikBrushes as a company and started building a proper team around it.
Around the same time, I also joined a US-based company where I worked across web development, SEO, leadership, and project management roles.
That experience exposed me to larger systems, workflows, communication structures, and team collaboration at a much bigger level.
Later, I also co-founded LearnyHive, an educational platform focused on helping engineering students learn more effectively.
That experience taught me a lot about:
- systems
- scaling
- product thinking
- leadership
- team management
- and long-term execution
More importantly, it reminded me that technology becomes meaningful when it genuinely helps people.
Looking back now, it still feels strange thinking about how all of this started from one random internet ad during school days.
At that age, I wasn’t planning businesses.
I wasn’t thinking about agencies.
I wasn’t thinking about careers.
I was simply curious.
But honestly, I think curiosity was the thing that changed everything for me.
And even today, after all these years, I still think that same curiosity is what continues to drive me forward.
