🚀 Build in Public: The Week Everything Was on Fire (But My Inner Flame Held On)

This week wasn’t about launches or growth charts. It was about holding space for chaos, showing up even when I couldn’t speak (due to sore throat), and quietly letting go of a version of myself I’d been carrying for too long.

🔥 Holi Popup Gone Wrong & Operational Chaos

We ran a Rage Room popup in Delhi for Holi—and it was a disaster. Equipment got damaged, and everything spiraled.

Back at HQ, just when I was looking forward to resuming post-vacation work, random fires broke out. People I had counted on changed their minds at the last minute, and I had to scramble to fix backend operations on short notice.

To top it off, I fell sick with a fever and completely lost my voice. But I still showed up—to the office (because home was way too hot without AC), scribbling thoughts on paper while Neha and Tejas read them and helped communicate with our stakeholders. We kept making jokes and laughed at random things.

I felt heard, even when I couldn’t speak. And that’s a kind of workplace intimacy I’ll always treasure.

💻 Finally Letting Go of My Old Sandbox

About 1.5 years ago, I shut down Zenoholics, my web development agency. But I had continued maintaining server hosting for old client websites—because I had promised them I would.

This week, I finally pulled the plug.

🗂️ I deleted the server subscription.

🧾 I let go of archived files and projects I had built with so much love.

Zenoholics was where I self-taught everything—design, development, copywriting—in the pre-GPT era. It was built with scrappy hustle, self-belief, and no safety net while I was still in college.

Letting it go this time felt final. But it also felt like closing a door so I could fully open the next one—a future where my energy is focused on empowering 1 billion people with hope and happiness.

📖 ‘Let Them’ & The Anxiety of Control

Somewhere in this chaos, I found time to read “Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins.

It was exactly what I needed.

I realized:

“Let them misunderstand you. Let them talk. Let them walk away. Let them.”

I operate with a constant sense of urgency. And every time I fall sick, my anxiety spikes because I feel like I’m losing control of everything I’ve built.

This book helped me see that my job isn’t to control everything—just to show up fully as me.

That one shift felt liberating this week.

🎨 Healing in Sticks and Colors

Last evening, my sister and I—both worn out from intense workdays—just sat down and did something playful: We made an ice cream stick stand and did a bit of weird glass painting.

It required zero problem-solving, just presence, coordination, and color.

That moment reminded me how powerful it is to heal through art, through simplicity, through shared silence.

📌 Final Reflection

📉 No progress on Jreka this week. 📈 But massive progress internally.

This week was about survival, surrender, and soft victories.

📢 To every founder who feels like they're holding it all together with tape and prayer:

Let them.

Let go.

Let rest.

And remind yourself—you are already enough.

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