Bhagavad Gita helped me to start my first monetized SaaS

Since 2019 I have been trying to come up with a successful software business that would sweep the market with its value and demands. Unfortunately, a series of lockdowns, financial struggles and set of failures delayed my destiny. But last year December 2022 I decided that I need to try again. I opened my VS Code and started to build basic webpage to test my skills.

So I started coding but very soon I realized that my coding skills have become below mediocre, there were several errors and the output failed to work. The month of January had passed yet I had no consistent working product. Slowly self-doubt started crawling in- “I am not good at this.” “SaaS Development is complex work”. ”It can be done by experienced individual or someone with higher problem solving capacity.” These self-doubting statements covered me like an uncomfortable blanket. I started procrastinating, spend days just surfing videos on internet, sleeping. But than one broad day it hit me- The Bhagavad Gita says that Man should be detached from the outcome of his duties.

Chapter 2, Verse: 47 Karmanye vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana,
Ma Karmaphalaheturbhurma Te Sangostvakarmani
Translation-You have the right to work only but never to its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.

My duty as a developer since the time when I undertook the project is to give my best of efforts, if I give my best whatever the outcome I shall be relieved from both fear and sadness which brings
me to another sloka of Bhagavad Gita.

Chapter 18, Verse 35
yayā svapnaṁ bhayaṁ śhokaṁ viṣhādaṁ madam eva cha
na vimuñchati durmedhā dhṛitiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī

Translation-And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion- such unintelligent determination, O Pārthā, is in the mode of darkness.

I continued forward with my project, faced many technical errors. After few weeks I finally launched www.filmtech.io, connected with Stripe Payment. Few weeks later I was sitting in my office busy with my work, I got mail from Stripe telling me I received a payment of Rs 2000 (25$). It was one of my happiest moments after years.

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