Lost the way
Tags: Startup, Myanmar, Business, Myanmar Coup, Yangon

It’s around 5 months after the coup happening. In these 5 months, so many things happen in our life. Now, Covid-19 is back and lost hope again.

I still remember when I back to Yangon, Myanmar at the last 4 years. At that time, there is hope. So many people still believe in the future. There will be a bright light in the future of the country. But nobody knows we are living in a bubble. Now, it pops. Simple. When I arrive back, I couldn’t believe so many things changes in Yangon, Myanmar. However, now it looks like a dream. It has gone with the coup.

We are working for the clients. Our company is base on the clients. Look like B2B business. I always hope and trying to help my clients’ businesses grow. Their growth in our company growth, too. Most of the app, the startup doesn’t fall easily within these 4 years.

But most of the apps and businesses closed in these 5 months. One of the clients, they are going to an online clinic from offline to online. It will save a lot of people time and also prevent for the covid. Now, they need to close down because there are no doctors for their clinic. Most are running aways from Yangon because of 505. Some of the people are in jail. So, the only way is to close down the clinic and app. We have a lot of plan and cannot release the new version that under the UAT.

Another client just starts a studio. He needs to close down because most of his actors are on the 505 list. They cannot say when they can show their movies. So, they decide not to publish the app now and pending. So, we couldn’t get the full payment until they release it.

Some of the clients are closed down the business and running aways from Yangon. We developed the System together for over a year. Now, it has gone.

Some of the clients cancel the maintenance of their system. They cannot pay anymore. Shut down their backup servers, too.

Today, one of my favourite app and client, Aung Myin close down. The founder is fighting with Covid-19 at the hospital and cannot continue anymore. Nobody wants to learn business these days because all are down and most people become jobless these days. I still remember when we start Aung Myin. So excited and I learn and watch a lot of videos from Aung Myin.

I regret coming back to Yangon from Singapore. But I believe I done a lot when went back to Yangon. I published two books, Programming Basic and Database Basic. Another new book is still writing now. I contributed to young people in our office, how to write proper way and how to deploy on servers. How to use read/write databases. Now they know what is the load balancer, CDN, etc. When I back, nobody used that kind of technology and all are writing on one server. But I feel so late after the bubble burst. After the coup, I was checking outside the world and the world is changing so fast. So many new technologies are used to it like Docker, Kubernetes, serverless. Machine learning, real-time, RTC are not a big burden like last 4 years. Here, we are still a lot of issues when making the chat apps.

I didn’t know what to do next. I believe everything is happening in my life for a good future. I hope, I can find the way to exit.