Building and selling strengthen each other over time.
I started learning to code in a few months, then sat in real meetings with agency managers and directors in Singapore. The biggest lesson wasn't about software. It was about listening to the people who actually run the business.
Writing code was the smallest part of making software matter. Shipping it, selling it, and sitting inside the industry it serves were harder, and each one changed what I built.
Ask me when I started and I used to say August 2025, the month Samuel pointed me toward React and Next.js. That answer is wrong.