To everyone in my community, old and new,
I am writing this with a mix of hesitation and hope, to share my full story and to make a humble request for the next chapter of my journey. I want to be completely transparent with you, because you are the community I’ve built this with.
My name is Anubhab. By profession, I am a Civil Engineer from India. But a few years into that career, I felt a pull towards something else, a passion for building something online that I couldn’t ignore. As everyone knows, you need the right knowledge, patience, practice, and money – all of these investments are necessary to get results.
So, Initially I started like many, with Dropshipping in 2020 lockdown. I opened a Shopify store, but with no prior knowledge of ads scaling and the monthly charges piling up, it failed. I tried again, and it failed a second time. I lost money, but I learned.
Next, I turned to Etsy. I managed to get a few sales, but my profit margins were too thin compared to competitors. With all the platform’s fees, it ended up as a loss-making store, and I had to close it down.
After that, I got into Affiliate Marketing with some reputed merchants & SceneScoop Shop. I got a few initial sales, but over the past year and a half, it hasn’t been consistent or enough to sustain anything. I started this YouTube channel and began learning about Content Writing and Forex trading, hoping to find a side income source that could eventually fund my real dream project. I saw many fake influencers (especially on YouTube) giving what I now realize was false hope. I learned that a coach never plays on the field, and it became a trending topic since 2020 that the one way to earn money online is to give false hope instead of showing bitter truths and the actual results. You will never find all the materials you need in one place. That’s why it takes so much time to learn from experience. I learned the hard way that everything requires immense patience and money of course.
I started the SceneScoop blog in 2023 because I genuinely wanted to create a space for gamers. But I soon learned the dark reality of blogging: the cost of maintaining a website, the plugins, and the sheer amount of work. I watched as people who bought fake reviews and engagement profited, while genuine hard work often went unnoticed. I haven’t even reached the payment threshold for Google AdSense, and my two years of investment felt like it was slipping away.
I can still remember how my seniors, friends, and junior mates started calling me by my gamer code name ‘farcry’ – to the point where only some of them knew my real name, except for those who were very close friends at the time. Over my four years of college and beyond, I spent countless hours playing so many multiplayer and single-player PC games. The list is long: CS 1.6, FIFA, Blur, IGN, Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, Crysis, Far Cry, Prince of Persia, Saboteur, Battlefield, GTA, Tomb Raider, and more. That passion extended to mobile games too, like Clash of Clans, Mini Militia, and PUBG Mobile.
I couldn’t stick to just one thing because my main goal was always to generate a side income to fund my true startup – a separate project I am not yet ready to share publicly. All these attempts, from dropshipping to blogging, were stepping stones to get there.
I can’t believe I haven’t played a single PC game in the past 8 months because of my busy schedules – I just play two mobile games sometimes when I get bored, one is UNO online and another is Clash of Clans. Everything has faded over time because my sense of time’s value was different before, with no future goals, no expectations, and relying on my father’s money. I realize now, in this age of maturity, how serious things are. I felt shy to share these kinds of personal and emotional things with others, maybe because I needed a special person to believe in me, someone who is like-minded.
I’ve felt shy to share this, feeling I needed a like-minded person to believe in me. I’ve felt alone in this, with only one childhood friend aware of my struggles, unable to talk to my family for fear they would tell me to stop entirely.
I don’t want to give up. I believe in my capabilities and the knowledge I’ve gained from all these failures. The person writing this today is not the same as the one who started three years ago; I am more focused and realistic. I have stopped doing everything else that I was doing over the past 5 years, and I am now focusing on just one project.
So, at the end of 2025, I am setting my shyness aside to ask for your help. If you are able and willing to help me directly, any contribution to my fundraiser would be a lifeline. It will help me clear the debts that are holding me back and allow me to focus fully on building my new venture.
I am not only asking for direct donations. If you prefer to support me in a way where you receive something in return, please consider checking out my digital store. I create and sell downloadable print items, and any purchase you or your friends make would be a huge help.
I took many times to think if this is the right way to ask help or not but pardon me this was the last option i had to do.
Thank you for taking the time to read my entire story. Also Thank you for any support you can offer, whether it’s a direct contribution, or simply sharing this with others.
