You're not lost. You're trapped.
The Trap is the free community for people still inside the job. A group that's awake at 11pm, one honest resource a week about whether you should still be there, and once a month I build something real on screen and answer anything you bring. You get in by downloading anything we make. No card, no application, no pitch.
Nobody at work can know, and nobody at home wants to hear it again.
You've had the idea for years. Your colleagues can't know — you'd become the person who's leaving. Your friends don't really get it. Your partner is tired of the same conversation. So it stays in the notebook, and every Sunday night the feeling comes back, and every Monday you talk yourself out of it. That isn't a motivation problem. It's that you're doing the hardest part alone, surrounded by people who need you to stay exactly where you are.
A room full of people doing the same maths as you.
On Telegram, always on. Ask at 11pm and someone with a job like yours is awake and typing. This is the part that stops you feeling insane.
A resource about where you actually are — not motivation, not hustle. Usually the uncomfortable version of the answer.
Once a month I build something real on screen with AI, start to finish, then answer anything you bring. Dates go in the group. Recorded, and there is no pitch at the end.
The Corporate Suffocation Index scores what the job is costing you across five dimensions and names which of five types you are. Two minutes. Most people don't enjoy the result.
Every guide, every template, the email courses, the book chapters, the podcast. All of it, free, no drip-feed and no chapter one of twelve.
When you stop deciding and start building, The Forge is there. Nobody will push you toward it. This room is for the stage before that.
A guide, a book chapter, the diagnostic. Any one of them.
The group link lands in your inbox alongside it. No second signup, no approval, nothing to fill in twice.
Plenty of people read for months before they type a word. That's allowed. The point is that you stop being the only one.
This is the room you're meant to leave.
Most free communities are built to keep you there forever, quietly consuming, so somebody can sell to you later. This one has the opposite job. It exists to get you to the moment you stop asking whether and start asking how — and then you go and build, and this room carries on without you. If you're still in here in three years, reading, we both failed. Take everything, pay nothing, and leave.
- You're employed, paid decently, and quietly done with it.
- You've had an idea for years and it's still an idea.
- You can't talk about any of this with anyone in your actual life.
- You want the honest version, not encouragement.
- You're building right now and want a small room — that's The Forge.
- You've already shipped and want growth — that's The Room.
- You want someone to tell you it will all be fine.
Someone who stayed too long, and then didn't.
I lost around 250k€ when a venture went under, moved back in with my parents, and rebuilt from a laptop — alone, with AI, for around 3.250€ in tools. What came out is roughly 2M€ of software. It's called FIKR, and you're reading this on it. I did the deciding part alone for years and it cost me most of them. That's the only reason this room is free.
Same road. Three rooms.
You're in the job, wondering whether to go. The group, the weekly resource, the monthly build. You leave here when you start building.
You've committed. Your own room of eight, every week, a roadmap from idea to shipped, and coaching twice a month.
See The ForgeYou've shipped. Customers, revenue, and whether to go full-time. Eight people who have all done it.
See The RoomYou move rooms when the question in your head changes. Should I → How do I → How do I grow it.