My Life story, I guess. My journey into the complex world of entrepreneurship began with a platform that one would laugh at today, Roblox. For me, however, it was an escape into a virtual world where anything I dreamed of could be achieved. It was an escape from the real world where I went on a flight to India for a few months' vacation that stretched into a few years due to COVID. It was an escape from a world I was unfamiliar with, with a language that I was unfamiliar with, with people who treated me like a foreigner. It was an escape from a world where my parents would argue with my grandfather, eventually leading to their permanent split. At that time, I had a rickety old laptop from 2017 that could barely paste two thoughts together, but it was on that rickety old laptop that I learned Python, 3D modeling, trading, gaming, some gambling, and most importantly, communication. I started off like any other user, playing games. After I mastered the game, I created a YouTube channel which has amassed over 1 million views on YouTube and TikTok combined, and taught myself basic photo editing and videography skills, enough to the point where I made a montage and uploaded it. I would stay connected to my friends in the USA this way during these rough times. Healthcare in India was much worse than it was in the USA, since the sheer number of people infected with COVID overstressed India’s poor healthcare system. Little was done to cure someone who got COVID, especially the poor who couldn’t afford healthcare. I started learning “paper” trading on Roblox, as much like real life, Roblox has items which have a varying price dictated by the demand for the item. Instead of selling and buying, you could trade with other users for their items. I spent hours learning the trading world and managed to get an item which was worth 1,000 Robux at the time (~10 real-life dollars). Over two months, I managed to grow to a portfolio of 26,000 Robux at my peak, but then it all came crashing down after my account got hacked and all my items were stolen from me. This, at the time, was catastrophic for me. So I did what every sane person would do, I deleted my account out of frustration. After a few days, I got bored, so I created a new account called Failing_Trading , and I started from ground zero again. I managed to reach a portfolio of 40,000 Robux from 1,000 Robux after 3 months, but then lost a major trade and decided to sell it for approximately 200$ worth of robux to take on a more ambitious project: commissions. Unlike other platforms, Roblox was a space where you could also create your own games and upload them to the platform. That is when I started creating countless games, one failure after another. I 3D modeled my own assets, and once even hired a team with the few Robux I earned off one of my games. None of them were successes. That is when I got into the commissions market, where successful group owners would give me work to do, and I would give them a product usually a 3D model. At first, due to my subpar skills in 3D modelling, I used to take free models off the web and then modify them to the needs of the user. However, I knew that this gig wouldn’t last long. I either had to learn the program or get out. That is when I spent hours each day watching YouTube videos and creating marvelous products. I created a donut, a dystopian scenery, a wormhole car, and many other things. My skills had finally gotten up to the point where I was receiving commissions daily. I, however, didn’t feel like doing all that work, so I started delegating my work to other employees who worked in the commissions market too. I started acting more as a middleman, receiving commissions and then delegating them, making minor tweaks myself to bring it up to the quality the client expected. But then, a major setback came. My computer from 2017 died. I was now left with an iPhone 6 with Discord on it, and I wasn’t sure what to do. That is when I decided to start getting into the computer market to figure out how to fix my computer issue and to also resume my 3D modeling quest. My parents denied the funds I required, and I was only making a few dollars every day, so I couldn’t get one myself. That is when I decided to take my “broker” services to the next level. I hired 3 more people and compartmentalized them. I would receive a task from an employer, take that task and give it to my lowest layer of employee, to whom I was the employer, and he would create the basic outline of the product. He would also do all he could to start the foundation, such as basic texturing. Afterwards, I gave the product from employee one to employee two, who added a great deal of detail and texture. Afterwards, I gave that to employee three, who did the high-level finishing touches and prepared it to export and provide to the employer. He would also make any edits needed. This system worked well for a while, as I was keeping the profits. However, by pure chance, all three of my employees were contacted by my client, as he was looking for more 3D modelers. The three employees were already briefed on what they had to do, so when they realized that I was just a middleman servicing them and keeping the profits, they decided to leave me and work for the client directly. My account’s reputation was ruined, so that is when I decided to create a new account with a bigger and more ambitious goal. Creating my own UGC Group. On Roblox, you can purchase items in the accessory shop to war. However, many don’t know that those accessory items can be created by anyone. That, however, would take funds that I didn’t have, so that is when I found a slight sliver of hope, emulation. On your phone, you can create a virtual machine and emulate a Windows 10 OS, to use windows programs. The issue was that this service was moderately expensive, as it established a connection a real desktop in a server to work. I gathered what little funds I have attained from my previous fund and got a connection established. Using the app, Blender, made for the desktop on my phone was a pain. Eventually I got an adapter to connect my keyboard and mouse to the phone, and spent hour starting at a tiny screen trying to create something that would get me to the top, and that is when I had a revelation. I recreated a popular 2D meme into a 3D model, and listed it. No sales. I created a cool face item that looks like a bird frozen in place. No sales. That is when I went back to doing commissions myself on Roblox, and I was able to land a big client. Since my account was rather recent and I didn’t have much credibility, I accepted a lower price for the project. It was a cowboy hat inspired off “barbie”, and I delivered. The issue was, I made the mistake of sending the file to them before they paid me, but I figured since they were such a large company, they were going to keep their word. Little did I know just how wrong I was. The amount owed to me was 40,000 robux, or 400$. They didn’t pay. I attempted to contact them from multiple avenues but all of them got blocked. Since Roblox doesn’t “endorse” this activity, there wasn’t much I could do. Frustrated, I decided to go back to building more items for myself. I used to watch a youtuber named flamingo, and I modeled his face in 3D. I found slight success in this item, as it sold a few times every day, earning me about a dollar each day. I went on to create more and more items, painstakingly, and eventually managed to reach a balance of 50,000 robux from sales. I hated working on my phone (so much so that I put the new iPhone my parents bought me later on inside a drawer for over 7 months) so I decided to build myself a computer. I finally came back from India after 3 years, and the language difference was a great shock t om me. Since I was in India for so long, I had developed an accent which was part American and Part Indian. This gave me a great instability issue, and I remember never speaking when I came back to school. Funnily enough, since I returned in 8 th grade, I was only allowed to attend chorus for my music credit. That class taught me how to lip sync well. I wanted to play ROBLOX on a better PC, so I gathered some funds from ROBLOX to build PC myself. I was originally planning on keeping it forever, but I had become addicted to it, so my parents forced me to sell it off. I never expected it to sell, but on one faithful Tuesday, May 11th, 2022, it sold! I was confused. I thought selling was something that only adults could do, and that is when I had a flashback. That was the first time I was at a profit (and the only time I was that year). Ever since I heard the word entrepreneur when I was young during my 4th grade class, I knew that is exactly what I wanted to be. Something about that word seemed to bestow great prestige and honor upon yourself. It was sold, so then I built more computers. One of the first things I did with my newly aqquired funds was purchase a piano. I had seen countless videos on the beautiful rhythm of this heavenly instrument, and I had been playing a virtual version of the piano on my laptop for a while now. I contacted someone on Facebook, negotiated a piano listed for 300, worth 500$ down to 120$, and that is by far the best investment I have ever made. For nights afterwards, I spent countless hours on YouTube learning songs and playing them in the middle of the night. Things were going well; However, this is where I hit my first low point. The first few were small gains, so I figured that I should dream bigger. That is when I tried something new, I attempted to create a PC that wasn’t cooled by the traditional air/fan methods but rather cooled directly by water. Water has much higher heat dissipation than air, and I figured that would likely increase the prestige of the PC itself too. However, when I went to ship it after selling it online for 2,000$ (through Mercari), I was unaware of the importance of properly packaging the fragile pipes that carried the water. I shipped it off, just like my other PCs, unaware of the disaster that would strike. A few days later, when the customer received the PC, it was flooded with water. Everything I worked for was lost, 2,000$, got my first return, got my first bad review. I salvaged all the parts that I could from the waterlogged PC, and then I gave up on the PC market. I figured that a loss of about 1200$ will take months to pay off, so I was forced to push forward on Roblox. After a great period of 3D Modelling accessories on blender, texturing them, and then implementing them on the Roblox catalog, I finally had a steady source of income of approximately 20$ a day from sales. I recreated some of the most popular memes into high quality UGC content, created my own twitter profile to push my UGCs through, and one day, a youtuber named “flamingo” made a video that included one of my items. I was in front of an audience of millions of people, hence I got a huge spike in sales that day. That spike in sales I saw from the day the video was uploaded was enough to pay off the debt that had been bestowed upon me. But then it all came crashing down. One faithful day, a buyer messaged me to do a PC transaction. He offered the asking price (which isn’t normal - buyers tend to negotiate the price down to a lower one), and he seemed very stern on meeting at a specific Starbucks. This was rather strange as no buyer has ever been so stern on meeting at a specific location, but I checked his Facebook profile, and it seemed like he was a legit buyer. I went ahead with the purchase. It was a rainy day that day, and we bought a plastic cover to prevent the PC from getting wet as we transported it from our car into Starbucks. When we reached, we saw him already sitting in a chair. I thought that maybe he was very excited to get his new PC, but little did I know his true motives. He had his hoodie on the table and when I presented the PC to him, he moved his hoodie a bit farther down, revealing a handgun. I was unsure whether it was real or not at the time, as I had never seen one before. The tip looked metallic, and the man had a dead eye stare face. My father was next to me, and he noticed it too. He immediately leaned forwarded ahead of me and told the man that he can keep the PC for free, as a “gift”. The man didn’t say anything. My dad slowly moved back and slowly pushed me back too, and we walked outside. I was in tears on the way out, having trouble catching my breath. Was he really going to pull the trigger? What were his intentions? My father started speaking but I didn't hear a word he said. Ever since then things haven’t been the same (A few weeks later he was driving under the influence and got arrested for a similar incident with another buyer). I was permanently barred from doing in person meetups, and my parents told me to take a “break” from it all. For a few weeks, I listened. I left the thing that had once given me hope to become an entrepreneur, something that would one day make a name for myself. I had countless nightmares for nights after that, blaming myself, wondering all that could have happened. I never noticed how my father felt, as he hid his emotions well. I had to sell my piano to cover some of the money lost in this transaction. However, I was still shaking from sleepless nights wondering what I could have done to prevent that, only to come to the realization that this was a test. A test for willpower. The heavens above needed to see if I had the grit and willpower to continue my great journey and become what I always dreamed of becoming, an entrepreneur. After a few more UGC Roblox products launches, I attained enough money to start from ground zero. At that time, I wrongly assumed that the issue was pin shipping, hence I stayed off the online platforms and started selling computers through Facebook marketplace, where buyers and sellers can locally trade items that they own. Business was going well. Since this was a cash transaction, there were negligible fees during a purchase. I started selling a PC once every 3 days and communicated through Facebook messenger to help resolve any issues that the buyers had. Money was flowing and I was living the dream. However, the dreams of honor and being the best version of myself kept coming to me. Some nights, I would stay up till the week of the morning, imaging all that I could have been. Everything that I could have accomplished and how I could accomplish it if it wasn’t for that incident. Then, it struck me. I was only banned from selling in person, but not ecommerce selling. I stayed away from that market due to the exorbitant high fees, and fear of damage during shipping. If I found a way to navigate this treacherous terrain, I would be free from these bonds of disheartens. My UGC group on Roblox pulled another few hundred dollars, and with that, I started from ground zero (again). This time, I scoured the web for a PC configuration that would make me stand out from the competition, while also being powerful. That is when I ran into Xeon CPUs. These CPUs were launched many years ago and weren’t meant for the consumer market. They were meant for heavy server grade tasks like video editing, hosting a website, etc. Unlike the rest, I realized that all because it said, “not meant for gaming”, that doesn’t mean it is bad for gaming, it rather means that it can’t use its full capacity while gaming. The Xeon processors are extremely powerful, as they have a TDP twice as high as the flagship model at the time while quadrupling the average core count on the average Consumer CPU. Then, I struck gold. An anonymous eBay user listed a lot of 10 Xeon E5-2699V3s that he claimed he found in a box in his closet. Since the chips were discontinued due to a more powerful predecessor launch, they were being ignored by everyone, regardless of their power. That is when I put in an offer, for 300$. He accepted. I attained these CPUs for a fraction of their value and started purchasing the other parts required to assemble the PC. I was only able to purchase enough to complete 3 PCs due to my extremely limited budget. I snapped photos with my iPhone and edited them for hours on photoshop (on a pirated version) to make them look professionally taken. My end result was a neon background, glittery sky PC sitting on a hard wood tabletop, with a professional feel to it. I created an account on eBay and listed it, and I waited. I waited for a few more hours. Those hours turned into days. I lost all hope. I figured the universe is giving me a sign, a direct message to stop, but then that is when I realized a major issue with my listing. My account had no credibility, and my listing had old, outdated keywords. That is when I spent a week researching the most active keyword uses on eBay (through helium 10), started selling smaller items like some old RAM sticks to gain some reviews for trust and credibility within the community, and I found out that if I purchase items, sellers can also leave me reviews, so I purchased hundreds of digital items for an extremely cheap price, building a few hundred reviews. I started experimenting with HTML coding, and started building my website, www.thehorizonmainframe.com . This was also around the same time I started my nonprofit www.horizonmainframefoundations.org (unofficially, finally got it officially registered with the government rather recently). My nonprofit website was originally coded in the same format as my previous website, but then I decided to try and do something different. I wanted this to look professional, something that no one else had ever seen before. I needed it to be unique. That is when I decided to create interactive UI elements that exaggerate the sixers mouse movement to make the website more “playful”. I also created a backend system on the website, where users can enter their payment system and get their payments processed, and a system where a potential volunteer can put in their location and get an automatic response on the school closest to them and what time and date the event will be. There is also a system that displays the amount donated by doors, from highest to lowest, an option to make your donation "anonymous". After doing some SEO Ranking by publishing my domains and indexing them on search engines, I finally had some credibility to back up the products I was selling. That is when I finally got my first sale. I was ecstatic, as this was the most work I had ever done for a sale, and it finally paid off. Though eBay fees took away most of my profits, I was still happy I wasn’t bleeding money from this sale. I packed up the computer and shipped it out. One week later, when the PC got delivered, the customer was furious. He sent pictures of a PC that looked to have been beaten up by a bat, but after further analysis that seemed to have been the PC I sent him, only extremely deformed. The GPU was snapped out of its slot and hanging on with just a single screw. The motherboard was bending at a 30-degree angle, far more than the potential snapping point angle. The CPU fan was hanging off the CPU cooler by a single rubber band. eBay didn't allow for communication off the platform, even if it was for fixing an issue with the product. We had to communicate entirely through the chat system. I had to fend off the angry customer while also getting him to follow the videos I created on fixing the PC. After many hours, he was finally able to get the PC working. I averted my first major disaster, a potential refund. I was also experimenting with projects of my own. I created a C02 dragster and entered it for a competition, but I lost. I made some iterations and lost again. I added a much larger fuel tank and lost again since I was carrying too much weight even though I had more power. I then experimented with different aerodynamic techniques, and eventually settled on putting the wheel base inside of the car. That failed too. I would come back to this project later. After this incident, I complete countless hours’ worth of research into better PC packaging. I ordered corner protectors (to puto the corners of boxes to equally distribute sudden forces on the boxes themselves, not the PC inside of them. I also attained a ton of bubble wrap, enough to fill a car. This is when I also started getting into advertising, for the first time. Advertising on eBay is different from other platforms, as instead of paying per click on the product, you pay per purchase. For example, you can tell eBay that you will pay 15% of the product’s final sale price if bay promotes your listing to the top. What I realized is that since computers are expensive commodities, almost no one sponsored them. Even if I added a sponsor bid of 5%, eBay would automatically send my listings to the very top of most related searches. So that is what I did. That same day I sold another PC. On the second PC I sold, I took every precaution there is to take. I stuffed the inter PCs internal components with bubble wrap, packed so tightly that the GPU started bending backwards into the motherboard (I didn’t realize this was a bad thing at the time). I sent a couple of prayers into the box and shipped it off. Then I waited for the dreaded message from the customer, for the PC to arrive damaged. However, I kept waiting. I haven’t received any message yet. I was confused. Maybe, I thought, the customer just didn’t open the PC yet. Some more time passed by, and I got a message from the customer. “Thank you so much for the PC, I bought this for my 14-year-old child, and he enjoys it so much!”. I was stunned. I reread the message, still said the same thing. I had just never expected to receive a compliment on my PC. Such a thing was a foreign concept to me. This is when things started looking up for me. With this renewed confidence, I started selling on Facebook again, except this time I always met in places of my choice, not the buyers, and I brought my monitor along to test the PC to show it works before the buyer pays for it. Things were going well as I was back to selling one or two Pcs every week. I also created a heart beat monitor with an Arduino I got, which could track ones heart rate and alert the user if the heartbeat is too high. It was bulky and unconventional at the time, but that taught me the basics of soldering and electronic wiring. I also joined the robotics team at my school, and was part of the electronic wiring team, where I learnt the basics and the beauty hidden in the tangled wires that stuck out of our extremely underdeveloped robot (at the time the team was relatively new, we were still learning) I got enticed by a more exciting field in my robotics team, machinery. I was one of the first sophomores to learn welding and metal working, and eventually even got to use a plasma cutter. I also got access to two UV-C bulbs from a friend of mine who just came from Russia. With that I was able to wire and create a portable UV sterilization chamber, complete with a UV-absorbing prismatic acrylic, wired to a rotating disk and powered by 4 daisy chained 9V battery to create a portable UV sterilization chamber. I also started attending outreach events where I would go to elementary schools and teach children how to build balloon powered cars and mini catapults. I started diving deeper into 3D modelling and CAD software, specifically SolidWorks. I recreated most of my projects online before making them in the real world as CAD allowed me to test and simulate the product in virtual environments. I created a custom HTML Description complete with custom images and custom text that looks far more appealing than the previous plain text description. Within a few more days, I sold another PC. I followed the same packaging principle as the last computer, and it arrived safe and sound. I was able to use the money earned from that to purchase more parts and sell more computers. Soon enough, I reached a couple of thousand dollars in sales. I started launching new models and variations of the PC, and my reviews and trust started building. Soon this would all come crumbling down from one customer. On black Friday, I created special discounts on the PCs, leading to multiple purchases. One seemed a bit odd. One buyer bought 2 PCs from me, both from lightly differing variations. I thought that this might be normal on eBay, but little did I know what he had in store for me. Once the two PCs were shipped, and delivered, he filed a return claim. He claimed that the “HDMI to DP converter he bought wasn’t compatible with the PC”. Unlike other return requests which I got approved of by me, this one was automatically approved by eBay. “strange”, I thought. He had 20 days to return both PCs, but the thing I... he didn’t return the PCs. Instead, he filed another claim with eBay claiming that he “returned” the pcs and provided tracking to two packages delivered to Alpharetta (where my house is) but refused to provide the exact address and photo of proof of delivery. To the smooth brains on eBay, it looked like I got the PCs delivered to me but wasn’t giving him a refund. That is when eBay decided to give him a full unconditional refund even though he still had the packages with him. At this time, I was operating on razor thin profit margins of about 8% per PC. Those two PCs were given away for free, and each was couple hundred dollars. That represented majority of my profit margin from all my time selling on eBay. I did everything I could, filed acclaim, talked with eBay customer service, attempted to communicate with the customer, but eBay was giving me the same response of “nothing can be done now”, and the buyer was ghosting me. I couldn’t let this slip, though, as all my work was tied up with those two computers. That is when I had to do the very thing that ended my eBay customer, contact the customer outside of eBay. I had the customer’s address, so with that I was able to reverse search his phone number. I called and got hung up for the first time. The next day I called again, and this time his wife picked up the phone. I told her about the computers, and she does remember hearing her husband talk about receiving a full refund. She was unaware of her husband’s motives to not return the PC, and she thought maybe her husband forgot. That is when she went ahead and returned the PCs herself, through shipping labels that I provided. When the husband came back from work, he realized what happened and immediately reported it to eBay. Even though the customer representative on the phone agreed with me that I did the only thing I could do, he said it’s still not “allowed” to contact the customer outside of eBay’s messaging system. He told me to take this as a warning, which I abided by. I changed up my return system to require signature delivery confirmation upon arrival, and automatically blocked purchases with potential buyers who had less than 2 items purchased. I thought this would be the end of the story, so that I would be able to continue my eBay selling journey. Little did I know how wrong I was. For a while, things were going well. Sales were booming, cash was flowing, and customers were happy. One day, I woke up to an email from eBay. “Your account has been permanently terminated, the funds you have may not be returned to”. This was quite a shock to me. I had over 10,000$ pending in the eBay payment system, and the fact that I might not be getting this money back ate at me during the nights. This was everything that I had worked on for the past few months. I was now permanently barred from selling on eBay. The reason for termination was not provided, but I have a feeling it has something to do with that. On top of that, that same day, I checked the tracking of my 3,000$ shipment of parts from Alibaba (A B2B site that sells directly from Chinese suppliers to US retailers) only to see that it had gotten stuck in customs. Little did I know that “stuck in customs” I was another way of saying “stolen”. When I shipped the items, I had put the value of the package on the outside of the box (as required by customs), but I should have known that the Customs department isn’t the only department looking after these boxes. To this day I haven’t received the boxes regardless of countless claims. In that same week, I went to meet for a PC exchange with someone at McDonalds. I made the grave mistake of coming in during the cover of night, as the person I sold this PC to have an open carry firearm. Though he didn’t use it for threats, the McDonalds manager came and banned us both from ever entering the establishment again. This sucked as that was my primary location for PC meets as it had access to power outlets. My parents, again, banned me from selling on Facebook marketplace. This time for good. On the day of my termination, I did countless hours of research on ways to get the money I worked so hard for back. Though in eBay’s eyes, what I did (contacting the customer outside the platform) was right in my specific context, it still violated their TOS. From all the information I received online, I had to take 3 steps. #1, contact eBay, figure out the exact reason for termination (not given), 2, file a POA and send invoices for proof of delivery. If none of those worked, then I was left with no choice but to contact legal counsel to claim an exception to my termination to get my money back. Fortunately, even though the eBay support was no help, after filing the invoices and POA, I was able to receive a small shred of light. The money would be returned within 180 days. 180 days. You heard that right. That meant that everything I had worked for up to this point, most of my profits, part of my investments, and part of my sanity, was tied in being patient. However, I lacked patience. I attempted to complete seller applications on newegg, Walmart, and best buy, but I got blacklisted from Walmart since I made the mistake of putting my name instead of my mothers, as I was stil considered a Minor, and I got rejected from newegg and best buy since my business was too small to participate None of that mattered though, I had my eyes set on a bigger and badder marketplace, Amazon. Amazon has items primarily sold by the bulk and they also have a much larger audience for prospective buyers, and they have the most important thing, credibility. With amazon’s credibility and, I would be able to sell them by the masses! At least that is what I thought. I created an amazon account, but got rejected, Apparently, there are a ton of legal forms that need to be filled out, and a rather large fee that needs to be paid upfront. The issue is, I didn’t have the money. in fact, I was, at the time, in debt, as I owed thousands of dollars in credit to the suppliers, I purchased my items from. None of that mattered though, as II knew that I would gain nothing from waiting. That is when I decided to take the boldest, and riskiest move of my life, staking the UGC group I have worked so hard on in Roblox for money to continue my PC business. My UGC group, which I have worked on for countless years, uploading and creating avatar items and games, was at stake. I sold a 49% ownership share in the group for 5,000$ to a famous Roblox developer and paid back the loans that required immediate payment. I still had 3,000$ as I needed that much money to start my amazon empire, even though still had another 5,000$ in unpaid items that would start to accumulate interest within 2 months. That is the timeframe I had, to build a profitable business from zero reviews, zero credibility, and no experience on amazon from the ground up. I was at ground zero, for the third time. The total costs for selling on amazon are 100$ for the LLC filing, 250$ for the trademark filing fee, and the 40$ monthly amazon subscription free, not even including the added extra cost for custom packaging etc. Once I had all the paperwork in order I submitted the application again, and got denied, again. Amazon required custom branding of the Companies name on the box or product, but the issue with that is getting branded items is insanely expensive, and it was also only available with bulk purchases on the computer cases. I didn’t have the time to wait for a custom product to be delivered from China, but I lacked the funds to do so. That is when I settled for a cheaper but effective option, Custom Spray-painting templates. In my school, there is a laser cutter that can cut precise shapes into thin wood. I created a stencil for my design in SolidWorks and printed it out on the laser printer. Now I had a cheap and flimsy piece of wood with the company’s name engraved on it. I added the stencil to the outside of my box, grabbed some spray paint and painted it. The result was far from beautiful, and I knew that would get rejected. I kept trying. After 20 test boxes, I finally found the perfect strategy for having clean spray paints, the weight and wait strategy. It worked by placing a large weight on the plywood to prevent bending and then adding thin layers of spray coat to the top sides and then waiting for a couple of minutes. It worked out beautifully and was finally able to submit all my paperwork and get approved for selling on Amazon. Unlike selling eBay, Amazon is a whole other beast. The listing process is complex and mind-draining, requiring every single detail on the thousand dollar computer with multiple components inside to be written. If even one thing doesn’t match the correct specs, it will be rejected, and I will receive a warning. I was able to get through that process and uploaded my item after a few days. That is when I ran into yet another problem, reviews. I had zero credibility on Amazon. I still had the “recently joined” seller badge and lacked a single review. This made people extremely sketchy on my product; hence they wouldn’t buy something so expensive from a seller with no trustworthiness. Another thing is my product didn’t stand out at all. Yes, it looked significantly better than the rest, but the photos and listing were still relatively low quality compared to the titans that have dominated the PC space for years, the product still had many major flaws that needed to be addressed, and computers with the same configuration as mine were getting sold at a lower price due to lower manufacturing costs when purchasing in bulk. This didn’t deter me though. I thought, there are millions of buyers on amazon, certainly one of them must be willing to take the risk with me! The short answer to that is, No. I created many other side projects at my school, such as modifying a weak RC car that was only capable of climbing slopes of 20 degrees to climb slopes of 80 degrees by redistributing the weight of the car, pushing 9V instead of the original 1.3V through the motor, and using tires made entirely out of rubber bands with indentations on them for significantly better grip. I also utilized a lathe and made a wand, which achieved the highest grade in my class.