I flipped a coin about moving to Australia. It landed on yes.
I was 33. My best friend was going through a divorce, I was going nowhere, and we were talking one night when he said: come over, start again. So I flipped a coin. Here I am. Before that — Lithuania, then London.
I sold physical gold. I traded stocks. I ran Amazon FBA for three years, and it was paying my rent while I also worked 70 to 110 hours a week managing a thousand-person venue in Camden Town. I couldn’t keep up with both.
Then five years of forex — studying until 2am, up at 7 to trade, the part nobody sees. After three years I finally got funded. Then I lost the biggest account I’d ever had, because I overtraded it.
That one taught me what I actually needed. I was a terrible trader. What I’m good at, and have been since I was a kid, is building systems.
MileStone started on a four-hour bus ride. I was bored, so I began building a goal tracker for myself. Then I showed it to people, and everyone wanted one.
One windowEvery app I quit gave me a tiny box to write in — backwards, because I write first and plan second. Your goals, notes and reflections live in the same place.
Light on your phoneNo app store and no big download. The whole app is one web page, without piles of features you can’t turn off.
It never calls you a failureI dropped so many apps because they kept reminding me I’d let myself down. A missed day is a missed day. MileStone marks it 💤 and moves on.
Pacing, for a personal reasonI kept missing paperwork deadlines — not because I forgot them, but because I never worked out how many hours they’d take. So progress here is weighted by hours.
Where I’m up to
Five months, in the hours around a full-time job — I manage a bar in Queensland. I’m not a developer. I did AI certificates on weekends and taught myself the rest, and I’m still learning proper AI workflows. I don’t think I’ll ever stop.
MileStone is new. A few friends use it, and some of my classmates. That’s the honest state of it. I could put testimonials here, but you’ve seen them on every app you’ve already abandoned. I’d rather tell you it’s early, show you exactly what it does, and let you decide.
If it’s for anyone, it’s for someone building their own thing who also likes to write — who uses other tools to get the work done, but keeps coming back to the original plan to remember why they started.
