FOLIO 02 · DISPATCH FROM A CHAIR IN BANDUNG · 03:14 LOCAL
hi, this is bilal.
FOUNDER · BUILDER · MOSTLY FINE
this page exists because the link version was getting crowded, so i made another one. then i made a builder for it. then i used the builder to make this one. it is, technically, a love letter to my own scope creep, wrapped in a portfolio, framed as a service offer.
* i'm like this in person too. it is, on most days, a personality, and on the rest, a problem you politely don't bring up.
P.S. · FREE
every page on this site was built with miegai.com. you can build one too.
including this one, the link version, and probably the next one i decide to make at 2am. it takes about a weekend. it is, genuinely, free. you only pay if you want your own custom domain (i would cover those too, if my wallet were not, on most days, having opinions.) yes, this whole landing page is also a product demo. yes, the irony is on purpose.
PLATE A · THE WORK
i.
currently building.
four products. one person. each, in its own way, an attempt to outsource a feeling.
01 · AKAR ERP
an ERP for a company whose entire org chart is me, talking to myself on slack, three accounts deep.
double-entry bookkeeping. multi-currency. manufacturing. a permission system that took longer than the actual ledger. i built it because every ERP i tried to buy was, in some way, slightly worse than building one from scratch, which is, with hindsight, a sentence i should have read more carefully before writing.
02 · MIERAKIGAI · you are reading this through it
a CRM that grew a landing-page builder, which is now showing you a landing page about itself.
started life as a customer-relationship tool, picked up a marketplace ingestor, an accrual posting engine, a daily-tracking dashboard, link-pages, and finally, this: a section-based builder for landing pages. the page you are looking at was assembled in it. the form below was built in it. the recursion is intentional. mostly.
03 · ANIMA POS & WEBSTORE
a cash register and a webstore in one app, somehow both at once, like everyone you know.
originally a counter-side checkout for shops that still write receipts in pencil. now also a section-based webstore with whatsapp checkout, theme presets, and a draft/publish flow that exists because clients kept editing live. it is, at the same time, offline (the till does not need wifi) and online (the storefront kind of does). technically, schrödinger's commerce. yes, the irony is intentional. nine section kinds. one (1) app that has accepted it is two things now.
04 · AMA BUSINESS FORUM
a forum for an association, with two posts, one of which is a system test.
single sign-on bridge across the whole stack. the smallest of the four, in line count and in ambition. it works. people sign in. very rarely, they post. this is, possibly, what success looks like for a forum in 2026.
PLATE B · THE LORE
ii.
THE LORE
a portfolio of feelings,
that occasionally compiles.
i started building because i needed something to need me back. spreadsheets felt like therapy until they did not. then i learned next.js, then react, then postgres, then how to tell a client their requirements are emotionally damaging. now i run a small group of companies. we make software. we make mistakes. the software is mostly working. the rest is a work in progress. every product on this page started as a workaround for a thing i did not want to pay for, then turned into a thing i could not stop building. by the time i noticed, there were four of them. one is a CRM. one is an ERP. one is a cash register. one is a forum with twelve users. all of them are mine. all of them are unfinished. that is, on most days, the point.
PLATE C · AN HONEST INVENTORY · RECORDED 03:14 LOCAL
iii.
an honest inventory.
things i love: cold espresso, well-named functions, the moment a deploy goes green. things i mourn: free time, eight hours of sleep, the version of me who thought this would be easier. things i suspect: that ambition and loneliness are often the same person wearing different shoes. things i can build: most of the back, half the front, none of the design (i pay for that with feelings). things i still cannot build: a sales motion, a haircut, a calendar that respects boundaries. things i am sure of: not many. but the code compiles. for now.
PLATE D · WAYS TO SPEND MONEY ON ME
iv.
ways to spend money on me.
three tiers, ranked from least regrettable to most. all of them include the same thing, which is me, and the unpredictable amount of energy i have on any given afternoon.
01 · THE SPECTATOR
free, indefinitely, no strings, no notes.
Rp 0 / ∞ you are already enrolled. by reading this, you have unlocked all features of this tier. there is no upgrade path from here, only sideways motion. it is acceptable, even encouraged, to close the tab.
02 · THE CONSULTATION · most popular (n=1)
i look at your work. i return notes, sometimes useful, sometimes only well-written.
depends on the day, the asker, the moon. code review. business audit. a one-page note on what i would do if i had to pretend this was my problem. payment in coffee, an interesting bug, or a real number, accepted in roughly that order. i do not promise i will fix anything. i do promise i will be honest.
03 · THE FULL ACQUISITION
i become your developer. for a while. you keep me, until you do not.
a number we negotiate, then deeply regret. i ship features. i ship feelings. i ship a quarterly note explaining why i could not ship more. you receive working software, slightly scuffed, on an irregular schedule. refunds are not available, but reasonable conversations are. this is, structurally, a relationship. please consider carefully.
PLATE E · THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID, ALLEGEDLY
v.
what people say, more or less.
“ bilal is extremely professional. he replied to my message within three business days, even though i am, technically, his cat. ”
-- cimot, household feline, first paying client (in attention)
“ after committing directly to main forty-seven times in a single afternoon, i finally understood that i am not, in fact, an engineer. i am a ritualist. i pour libations into the build, and the build, in its way, responds. ”
-- bilal, in private reflection, 03:14 local. log timestamp available on request.
“ i don't know anything about accounting. bilal also doesn't know anything about accounting. but our reports balance, so one of us, at minimum, is doing something correctly. ”
-- a client who asked to remain anonymous. extremely anonymous.
PLATE F · A LOVE LETTER, OR SOMETHING NEAR IT
vi.
a note, before the form.
if you have made it this far, that is something. attention is the only currency i have not figured out how to fake. thank you for spending some on me. this is not a website asking for an email address. it is a website asking, very politely, what you are looking for. if i can help, i will. if i cannot, i will tell you, kindly, where to look next. that is the entire offer.
PLATE G · SEND A SIGNAL
vii.
send a signal.
leaving a message here is the easiest way to reach me. i read everything. i answer most things. eventually.
PLATE H · THE PATH HERE, ROUGHLY
i did not arrive at any of this gracefully.
2012 to 2014 · australia. finished a diploma. parallel to that, worked any kind of muscle labor available, and, briefly, a bit of illegal. that part is closed. probably statute-barred. supermarket rotisserie chicken counted as a meal in this era. write it down. 2014 · came back to indonesia. bought a churros gerobak. pushed it myself. real-time, real wheels. cooked the dough at the cart, smiled at strangers, learned how to count change in my head while the gas tank threatened to die. that was the first time i thought "someone should make accounting for this." (no one did. so.) 2015 · owned a cafe. then another one. mostly i learned that the difference between owning a cafe and being broke at a cafe is a bookkeeping software you cannot afford. 2016 · started akar partner as smb consulting. theory: small businesses are getting ripped off by every software they touch and someone should help. practice: largely the same theory, just with more invoices. early 2020s · implemented ERPs at manufacturing clients. multi-station, multi-warehouse, multi-currency, the kind of complexity where a client says "we have a small workflow" and then opens a 47-tab spreadsheet older than my marriage prospects. learned how to nod thoughtfully while doing math in my head, and how to translate "we already have a system" into "we have three excel files and a wechat group." mid 2020s · two of my consulting clients merged with akar instead of churning. mierakigai (a digital + marketing agency) and anima (a creative agency) walked in as projects and walked out as partners. we now share a bookkeeper, ship for each other, and argue politely about which app gets the bigger budget. akar kept being smb consulting, the way some people keep being therapists: not because we are healed, just because we are useful. now · one client does roughly half a trillion rupiah in annual sales. i still answer their whatsapp messages personally, often before coffee. i don't know what that says about either of us. also now · built four softwares because every one i tried to buy was, in some way, slightly worse than building it from scratch. you scrolled past them above. they all have feelings. (damn, time flies.)
FOLIO 02 · BILAL · − 6.21° S / 106.84° E · BANDUNG · 03:14 LOCAL
made with the landing-pages-v2 builder, which is a feature of mierakigai, which i also made. it is recursion, all the way down.
© 2026 abdurrahman bilal. running on caffeine and one (1) good idea.