When My Idea Was Launched Without Me..

In the year 2021, I came up with an idea for an app that I truly believed had great potential and could make a meaningful impact on many peoples lives. I thought the idea was new and valuable because it was meant to help people turn their everyday skill into real opportunity, especially the one that often went unnoticed or unutilized.

Instead of starting quickly, I chose to spend a lot of time thinking, planning, and discussing the idea, believing that waiting for the perfect moment would increase my chances of success.

As time passed, my regular job, daily responsibilities and personal commitments slowly took over most of my energy which caused my progress on the app to move much slower than I had hoped. Even though I continued working whenever I could, the years quietly slipped by and I did not realize how much time I was losing.

Towards the end of 2025, at the time when I had completed nearly seventy five percent of the app, I felt hopeful again because the vision I had carried for so long was finally coming closer to reality. But then one ordinary day, I received a forwarded message on WhatsApp that said someone else was launching an app and shockingly with the same idea as mine and their launch event was already happening.

Reading that message made my heart sink because I suddenly realized that the dream I had been holding on to for years might no longer belong only to me. In that moment, it felt as though everything I had hoped for with this app had collapsed, leaving me confused and unsure about what to do next.

After the initial pain passed, I slowly realized that this situation was not caused by bad luck but by my own decision to wait too long. I waited too long because I became too comfortable by just having the idea in my mind and felt a sense of happiness and pride simply knowing that I had thought of something valuable. I never believed that someone else could have the same idea and move faster towards execution in such competitive and fast moving world. I assumed that having the idea itself gave me an advantage without realizing that ideas mean very little if they are not acted upon quickly. I now understand the hard way that ideas do not succeed simply because they are well planned or carefully perfected but because they are brought into the world at the right time.

Although I am still unsure about the future of this app, I continue to hope that I will find a way forward and learn from this experience.

If there is one lesson I want others to take from my experience is that, do not wait for the perfect moment because action taken early is often more valuable than perfection achieved too late.

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