i got scammed 5 times

this is just a repost from main page, just put here again so it looks good.

i'm a 13 year old kid building stuff that actually helps people.

i have been great at academics since i was a kid. i always got first position in my class, topped olympiads + lot of great stuff done.

as a kid in india, i was always told to prepare for a government job and i wanted it too.

i was preparing for an exam and i qualified it, so my parents got me a laptop when i was 11.

back then, i didn't even know how to create a gmail, but i used it for studying for a year, watched some productivity videos (just used youtube).

one day, out of random a video popped up on my feed, it was a video promoting a survey app. it showed that they made $100 per day with it. i was amazed, told my parents that i was going to make more money than them earning in a year.

i watched these videos everyday, downloaded many apps and did it everyday seeing my payout growing with $0.01 everyday. it was a scam, i made $2 after 3 months of wasting my time but it taught me a lot about internet.

but then i started looking for legit ways of earning money. then a video popped up on my feed again, but this time this wasn't a scam (at least i thought so). it told about how i could edit videos and earn money by freelancing.

i started learning premiere pro from youtube. i kept learning for 3–4 months. then, i created a fiverr profile hoping i would start earning money. but nothing happened. it wasn't as easy as it was in the video.

so, what do i do? i started looking for leads on discord. got one person asking for an edit for only $5. yeah, it was very low, but i did it because there was no choice. again, i put a lot of effort into it but again he didn't pay. scam.

did 1 more project, got scammed again. (never told my parents because they would say to focus on studies instead.)

so, i then started making my own videos, then one day a video by marc lou popped up on my feed, i didn't understand much about coding back then but it seemed interesting. i kept making youtube videos...

i was creating faceless videos on ai news and one day a video came from a person i followed from starting. he had around 1k subs at that time, this video was about cursor and it got viral, near to 1 million views in a few days.

so, i created the same video myself. it took me 24 days and i learnt after effects alongside it. but, the interesting part was that i learnt vibecoding with it. i found it more fun. but anyways, i put the video on youtube and it got a copyright strike because i used his thumbnail.

i ditched youtube, because i was getting tired from editing a video for months, i started vibecoding.

in april 2025, i created my first twitter account (didn't know something like this also existed back then). it went good.

now i am managing many things: school, coaching, olympiads, vibecoding, tweeting.

i recently got my first coding project from twitter for $125.