My Back Story, from DEBT to BUSINESS as a Student

So, I’m 20 years old, Indian, Student, doing bachelors in computer science (until 2026).

It all started when I posted my first reel on oct 24, 2024. Had no expectations. Just wanted to have time and location freedom.

Was in serious debt (200$), you heard it right, but as a student, who’s from India, who gets 15$ as pocket money from my parents? yeah that was hell, really hell.

No help, no support, dunno what i really wanted, just going with my college and the flow. Seeing people on youtube and instagram (Alex, Iman, Daniel, Sharif) and many more yk? I even wanted to be on that Island, do those creator meetups, wanted to be in those aesthetic villas, amazing man.

And no one really shared what worked for them but just a story, simple story yk? and people get inspired and even I am.

No youtube tutorial worked for me, nothing really nothing. And I was good at programming, and i come from a Graphic Desinging background and I wanted to make money, atleast to clear my debt and eat my favorite food.

Buying an iPad was dream back then, really a fuckng dream. And i worked worked worked, built [uniodessy.com](http://uniodessy.com) a web development agency, solely, no experience, nothing, worked hard till 1-2AM everyday for 4 months straight, learning stuff, making contracts, reaching out to people, learning how to edit and post videos.

My english sucked, hard indian accent and MTI (mother tongue influence) and alot of insecurities, I had a phone which was worth of 100$ (mototola g72) which i got as a gift yk, haha yeah. Getting an iPhone was my childhood dream, im not even kidding.

I worked, and i approached people and started asking if they need websites and stuff. Designed my first website for a creator for 30$ (a landing page), who’s my best friend now and I surpassed him lol.

I started pricing more, expanding my skills and reaching out to more people. My first reel (good one), went viral and now is at 800k views or something, and that got me exposure… And i got clients (inbound) and was happy.

I made 30+ websites so far, starting from 30$ for a landing page to now charging 2000$ for a landing page.

Met so many millionaries, founders and stuff.

Benni Barletta, Varun, Saksham, Daniel Dalen, Joey, Mino Lee, Sam all these people are my friends, connections and some of them even follow me. Super Insane.

I wanted to work with Ben, he was my inspo & he has 3 businesses. And now? he reached out to me to work with me (i literally got stunned, I have his number now woohooo) and I run 3 businesses now. Idc how much money they are generating now, but I’m able to meet new people, millionaires, founders, especially who are my friends now. and super fuking awesome mannnnnn!

fast forwarded →

at this point, I’m learning spanish, got a business partner, got a lovely girlfriend, running a 4-5 fig agency all while being a student (a fukng full-time student), going to Bali, gonna do a business meetup.

Met so many people on the internet, from Koreans to Americans. My english sucked was at B1 (if you grade it), now I’m at C1, which is Insane. I can speak multiple accents and I’m a polyglot (i speak 5 languages, English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Spanish (a bit)).

And will be moving to spain by next year obv as a student doing masters cuz that’s the optimal and easiest way to enter into another country without any visa hassle. Super excited to meet my team, my biz partner, my girlfriend (yes, everyone is from spain and my gf from Puerto Rico).

I just funneled down my 5 months story haha, but yeah this is my story and A FUCKING THANKYOU TO EVERYONE OUT THERE!

Wanna connect? here's my instagram : https://instagram.com/vetcha.roopesh

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