Building a one-person business in public. Real numbers, real experiments, no highlight reel. Notion systems, pricing tests, and what actually works starting from zero. 21, still figuring it out here with you. Notion → https://www.notion.com/@lakwadhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mv2kb7bbtk25Chronic illness doesn't just affect one person. It slowly drains everyone around them. The spouse tracking meds at midnight. The daughter Googling symptoms in meetings. The son who missed a warning sign because nobody wrote it down. 🧵 #ChronicIllness #Caregiving09 Sep 2026 03:00 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2kb7bbtk25https://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3muyflkiw6c2oI turned one free Notion template into $997, 300+ sales, and a system now used by hundreds of people, while quietly going through the hardest year of my creative life. Here's the exact system nobody talks about: 🧵08 Sep 2026 06:31 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3muyflkiw6c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3muvnlbug2225Nobody prepares you for the admin. The symptom you forgot to mention. The med side effect you can't place on a timeline. The bill you swore you'd track. Managing chronic illness is a full-time job nobody hired you for. 🧵07 Sep 2026 04:16 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3muvnlbug2225https://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3muuiaomnqs26Nobody warns you about the hardest part of burnout. It's not the burnout itself. It's the return, when you're "fine" on paper but still can't do the things you used to do without thinking twice.06 Sep 2026 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3muuiaomnqs26https://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mutk2e74a22xMy first 3 months as a Notion creator: 19 total views. Not per post. Total. I almost gave up before a single person had even seen what I made. Then I kept going anyway. Not because I felt confident. Because quitting felt worse than staying invisible for a while longer.06 Sep 2026 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mutk2e74a22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3murdsfxj2c2uDa Vinci painted, engineered, and dissected anatomy in the same year. Most people call that scattered. Ambitious minds call it fuel. Here's the system that turns multi-disciplinary thinking into unstoppable output 🧵05 Sep 2026 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3murdsfxj2c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3muo4jke7qk2yNobody warns you about this part of chronic illness: The forgotten symptoms. The "did that medication actually help?" guessing game. The medical bills piling up in 4 different apps. It's not just hard. It's a second unpaid job. Here's the fix I wish I'd found years ago 🧵04 Sep 2026 04:22 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3muo4jke7qk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mulifct4ts2bIn March someone paid me to customize HealthOS. My first custom build ever. I almost said no, not because I didn't want to help, but because I wasn't sure I could deliver something worth their money. I said yes anyway.03 Sep 2026 03:17 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulifct4ts2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3muj3dhwnl227No one tells you this when you're young: Being good at many things isn't the advantage everyone promises. Not without a place to hold it all. Your ideas move fast. Your systems don't. And over time, that gap is where ambition quietly leaks out.02 Sep 2026 04:18 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3muj3dhwnl227https://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mufgb5bcyc23Caregiving doesn't ask if you're ready. It just starts. A diagnosis, a phone call, a bad night. And suddenly you're the one keeping track of everything, because if you don't, no one will.31 Aug 2026 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufgb5bcyc23https://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mudz7j3cn22nI've raised the price on three different products, months apart. No plan to repeat anything. Every time, the same thing happened. Sales just... stopped. Until I quietly put it back. I didn't understand why until much later.31 Aug 2026 03:56 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mudz7j3cn22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mu4qttdos22uWhen I was a kid, I loved Spider-Man for the punches. The swing across the skyline. Arriving right when the city needed him. Strength wearing a mask, showing up exactly on time, every time. Somewhere between being a kid and becoming this age, that story flips on you.28 Aug 2026 06:38 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu4qttdos22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mtv2gzdisc2bNobody warns you about the moment a parent looks at their child and says: "I don't know how to explain what's wrong. I just know I feel worse." That sentence is what happens when health lives only in memory. Here's how to fix it, for free, today25 Aug 2026 05:09 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtv2gzdisc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mttywknjtk2oI've always had too many interests for one lifetime. Writer, poet, artist, programmer, content creator, student. With that came a familiar frustration: losing notes, stalling on projects, forgetting insights right when I needed them. So I started building Notion systems. Not products. Survival.24 Aug 2026 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttywknjtk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mts6xoksy22wSomething nobody warns you about chronic illness: it's not just the illness you're managing. It's the remembering. The tracking. The trying to hold every symptom, every pill, every appointment in your head because there's nowhere else to put it. That part isn't your fault.24 Aug 2026 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mts6xoksy22whttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mtqaj7wfu22cI built SoloDesk in April. A free product, meant to guide people toward something bigger I'd made. 128 people looked at it. 34 of them downloaded it. I'm taking it down soon, and I've been trying to understand why that feels harder than it should.23 Aug 2026 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqaj7wfu22chttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mtnfkie2d22iIn July 2025, my Gumroad store had 19 total views. Not sales. Views. Thirteen months later I've made $982.95. I'm not telling you this to brag. I'm telling you because of what happened in between, most of it was quiet, slow, and didn't feel like progress at all.22 Aug 2026 04:06 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnfkie2d22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mtis5pgqxc2cSome of the things I've built came from joy. WritersOS came from loving words since I was twelve. HealthOS came from something harder. Being told I had asthma, and realizing I had no idea how to hold all of that information without losing pieces of it.20 Aug 2026 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtis5pgqxc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mtgqvznwp22hJuly made $0. Not because the products stopped working. Not because people stopped downloading them. A bank issue stopped every paid transaction for the entire month. I didn't tell anyone until weeks later. Here's how I got through it:19 Aug 2026 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgqvznwp22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mtemupy53k2jFor a year I thought the algorithm was against me. It wasn't. I was posting what I wanted to say. It rewards what people are already searching for. Here's what changed when I stopped fighting it.18 Aug 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtemupy53k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mtb4vg6htk25I've never been good at building things the "complete" way. I plan. I overbuild. I try to cover every case before I even understand the problem. For a long time I thought that made my systems better. Now I think it just meant fewer people could use them. #Medication #Health #Illness17 Aug 2026 06:59 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtb4vg6htk25https://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mt3yihlg3223January to March 2025. My first Notion product had 19 views. Total. Not per week. Not per month. Three months. Nineteen people looked at something I'd spent months building. I almost quit before anyone found out I'd even started. Here's what happened next:15 Aug 2026 05:57 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3yihlg3223https://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3mszxkbtrsc27I built my first Notion system the year everything in my life stopped working. Not to be productive. Just to have somewhere to put the mess so it wouldn't sit in my head.14 Aug 2026 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mszxkbtrsc27https://bsky.app/profile/lakwad.bsky.social/post/3msyb6styjk2nI've never been very good at doing just one thing. I write. I draw. I build. I get obsessed with ideas, abandon some of them, return to others years later, and somehow keep going. For a long time, I thought that meant I was a failure. Now I think I was just trying to become more than one thing.13 Aug 2026 18:22 +0000at://did:plc:3klxf7l2kybz6p3worhzaxts/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyb6styjk2n