Why product-market fit isn't a moment, but a habit.
For three years I chased PMF as if it were a finish line. Turns out it's a treadmill — those who stop running fall off the map.
Building WaitHub from zero — a platform managing queues and capturing customer voice across 1,000+ locations in Indonesia.
Not linear, not tidy. An honest record of how an idea from a Bandung studio reached enterprise servers in Jakarta.
Interior design background — not computer science. What I brought: design thinking. User empathy, fast prototypes, iteration without ego.
Ran a design and branding studio. Learned business language from the client side — restaurants, clinics, retail. That's where I saw the same problem repeat: queues.
The pandemic forced physical queues to go digital. With my co-founder, I built WaitHub. Not from a pitch deck — from one cafe in Bandung that needed a solution by tomorrow morning.
Three long years. Pivoted several times. Misread the market more than once. What kept us going: customers calling to ask when feature X would ship.
WaitHub started serving banks, telcos, and government institutions. From corner cafes to head office queues — same product, same problem.
Beyond queues. WaitHub now turns thousands of customer service conversations into marketing intelligence. Data once lost, now captured.
A service flow management platform for Indonesian businesses. From small cafes to national banks — the same problem: people waiting, and no one listening.
What I learn while building. Written for my future self — to remember why I'm doing this.
For three years I chased PMF as if it were a finish line. Turns out it's a treadmill — those who stop running fall off the map.
My FSRD background taught me one thing that turned out to matter most in startups: how to listen to a problem before selling a solution.
Enterprise procurement is a patience sport. Nine months, 14 meetings, one signature — and lessons I won't forget.
Customer is king — until they ask for something that would break the product. A story about saying no.
Rejection is data. Three pages of feedback from a major investor that changed how I see the market.
How much should I charge? This question haunted me for two years. What I learned: price is the story you tell about value.