What inspired you to start your own business, and how did you come up with your idea?

My previous pain is my source of inspiration. I am a self-taught UX designer. When I first started, only limited resources or expensive boot camps were available. So I started UX Playbook, making UX resources available and affordable for everyone.

The pain of my previous business led me to start my current startup.

Our journey started when our friend and cofounder Wildan struggled a lot with finding his files and other important notes. He tried to fix it by creating bots, that automatically forward any files or information he wants to his telegram saved-messages.This is how Klu was born! Klu.so is a software to help you find and share digital information.so At first you have to link all your apps with Klu (for example google drive, figma etc.) You can then search for a topic, term… through the search bar on Klu and it will automatically go through all of the apps you’ve linked it with and show you every file, pdf, photo etc. which the term is in relation with.

Starting with a pain point that I had faced, and realising I was quite passionate about the problem space, led me to research the area more. Once I'd validated that the problems I noticed were indeed real pain points for many people, and I'd understood that the problem space was large enough for a big business, I went all in! :)

When using internal SaaS, there are always some small problems that cannot be solved, so we have to develop some small tools to complement the SAAS. This is really time-consuming and we feel that the development cost is high. We discovered Retool, a low-code tool, but we felt that it was not intelligent enough and not user-friendly. That's why we developed our own low-code development platform, ILLA Cloud.

I think I usually come up with ideas but observing pain points in my daily life and others.

In high school, I was never into doing assignments that afterward converted into my business by running my own product.

I had just failed on a project (through laziness more than anything else). I sat down in a coffeeshop looking to get another project going that interested me enough to not quit, or create insane amounts of self doubt that I couldn't fight. Like everyone else is saying, I identified some pain points/problems and possible solutions, and through brainstorming landed on Vetted Closet (current project). Great question!

In the process of launching and doing so for my mental health. I’m sure Solopreneur status will come with many challenges yet I feel energized knowing that I’ll be fostering an environment that serves my health best for the long run. One of my offerings will be micro training programs on product management in cohort based environments. Really focusing on specific topics in 90 minute sessions within a 3-5 day structure. With the focus on inclusive, interactive and actionable takeaways the participants can implement in a weeks time. What about you?