Mar 3, 2025
Every financial license Indonesia issues, across Bank Indonesia, OJK, and Bappebti, banking, payments, insurance, capital markets, lending, gold, and a handful of categories most people don't know exist, traced back to what each one was actually built to stop.
Feb 24, 2025
While compiling every financial license Indonesia issues, QRIS kept coming up as its own thing worth a separate answer, how an OFF-US payment actually routes across issuers, acquirers, and switches, and why the two problems it hasn't solved (sticker fraud and slow refunds) are now bigger than the interoperability problem it was built to fix.
Jan 28, 2025
Making a simple static site generator because learnings someone else's top class code is harder than writing something silly on your own
Aug 20, 2019
The most beautiful product in the world won't be useful unless it has real, practical application to the user. Find out how Gojek combines science and art in the most inspirational and creative ways to create products whose functions benefit users.
Mar 22, 2018
We are not based out of the valley. The amount of impact one can cause by being based in the middle of the biggest revolution of the last century is dwarfed by what we have been able to accomplish by sitting in the middle of what used to be nowhere. You can only build products for the first world by sitting there. For being witness to this unbelievable movement in Gojek, you need to be in Indonesia and be engulfed in a sea of green.
Dec 1, 2016
After having worked with the great team at Gojek for over a year, we joined hands to change the world together. Gojek was the first unicorn to come out of Indonesia, and more than just being one of the fastest growing companies in the world, it is also the one with the most powerful social missions in South East Asia.
May 16, 2011
The original 2011 post running the numbers on the Fortune 500's own profit and loss data, restored from the Wayback Machine.
Mar 21, 2011
Getting picky with clients is tricky. It is usually difficult to predict how will the client will turn out before you start the project. So, we started picking clients based on a lot of different parameters. Eventually, we worked with three to-be-unicorns, and got acquired by one.
Mar 1, 2009
MBAKarma was one of the first, fully online products for taking online examinations for MBA preparation. It launched in July 2008 and had to be shut down early next year. Over 8,000 students who end up doing over 50,000 tests in the first six months.
Feb 17, 2009
The original 2009 fix for outgoing mail on a Slicehost server bound to Google Apps, replacing sendmail with postfix, restored from the Wayback Machine.