Heyley He

Zero Coding Background, One Shipped Product — Here's My Path to Building This

In 2024, I left a company that had promoted me twice in three years. I was Head of Operations. Stable job, good trajectory. I left anyway.The first month after quitting, I lost all my savings trading forex and stocks. Every dollar. Gone.The second month, I had a baby.Sixty days. That was my exit from "stable career woman" to "starting from zero with a newborn."A year later, I went back to work. Six months in, I quit again — this time to travel to Beijing and speak up for two minors who had been abused and had no one fighting for them. I'm not going to pretend that was a smart career move. But I couldn't not do it.So here I am. Almost two years out of traditional employment.But I didn't waste that time. I taught myself AI tools, learned product thinking, and vibe coded an actual product and shipped it — with zero coding background. It's live. It has real users.