Tech, entrepreneurship & self development.

Hey friends — I’m Deric. Welcome to my corner of the internet! 🌍

Created this newsletter to share all my learnings on indie hacking & building my tech ventures and SaaS from scratch, without external funding.

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What I'm building at the moment

sigmaschool.co

👩🏻‍💻 Sigma School

#1 Coding Bootcamp in Malaysia. Learn full stack web development in 3 months & get a job in tech.
sigmastudios.co

🚀 Sigma Studios

Full stack web & app development for businesses.
codeo.ai

📱 Codeo.ai

Mobile app to self-learn coding. Duolingo for coding! Available on iOS & Android.
tryjobier.com

🤝 Jobier (Launching Q4 2024)

Personal AI Job Assistant - 100+ Tailored job applications daily while you sleep. Land you dream job 10x faster!
youtube.com/@dericjyyee

🎥 My Youtube Channel

I make videos documenting my learnings in tech, entrepreneurship & self development on this journey called life!

Thoughts

tldr story of my life

Sold used graphical calculators to college students. Profitable but couldn't scale

First self-made dollar

2016

Founding team of a Student VC firm in my uni. Got super passionate

First exposure to startups

2018

Wanted to be a builder instead of a financier. Left my job to learn code

First line of code

2019

Did whatever I could to survive - taught code, hired for freelancing projects

First dollar in tech

2020

Got too excited once I could ship products. All failed. Learned a ton

First (few) tech startups

2021

$600k/yr - tech consulting & projects, education & recruitment

Since then

2022 - present