Day 600 of building my own business is still frightening.
With no experience whatsoever, I started my own Webflow studio in March 2025.
Since then it's been 600 days of:
Anxiety
Optimism
Impostor syndrome
Success
Failure
Failure
Failure
Success
Success
Believing
Doubting
Excitement
And everything in between.
Now I'm working with clients all over the world.
I'm building Webflow sites.
I'm working on a web app for musicians as a product owner.
I'm building my own digital product for solopreneurs.
It's still frightening. But most of all, I've never felt more free and satisfied.
I'm still looking for work, though.
To be completely honest, I really need some work as of right now.
If you need a Webflow developer or UX designer, I would love to talk.
Signed up on Contra a while ago. Zero views for months.
This week I uploaded some of my works. 🔥
I’m Ilia, a video editor, colorist and cinematographer with 20+ years in the field. Editorial work for Vogue, Esquire, The Rake, SHOWstudio. Based in Montenegro, shooting across the Balkans and UAE. Fashion films, brand campaigns, music videos.
More work going up this week. If you’ve been here longer, what else helped your profile get seen?
Congrats on getting the portfolio up, Ilia! 🎬 That Vogue and Esquire-level editorial polish on the fashion film cuts is exactly what makes a reel pop 🔥
To celebrate, I didn't want a generic thank-you graphic, so I algorithmically arranged 49 tiles of my actual shipped work (Palm, Direct Edits, and recent client builds) into the number 100 using parametric squircle math.
Huge thank you to everyone following the journey, supporting my work, and trusting me to build fast, clean web apps that actually look good.
We’re just getting started. Onto the next milestone! 🚀