Daniel Wong · Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Building slow. Writing it all down.
I run a small web agency and a handful of my own businesses from Kota Kinabalu, with AI doing most of the boring parts. This site is my public journal: what I build each week, what breaks, what I learn, and the family in between.
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This week
Every Sunday: what got built, what broke, what I'm doing next. Pictures first, few words.
Week 41 — Four reels, two new clients, and a site that died for 25 minutes
A client's site died on Friday at noon. By 12:25 it was back, and that was the least interesting thing that happened this week.
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More writing
Monthly life recaps, build notes, and the occasional story about my kids.
April 2026 — Life Recap
Birthday month, Qing Ming with mum, pool days with the kids, new cafes, and a hat I borrowed from my mum. Notes from a quiet April in Kota Kinabalu.
WhatsApp Is Eating Me Alive. Starting Today, I'm Killing It Until Noon.
I wake up at 5am. By 6:31am, WhatsApp owns the rest of my day. Why I'm switching off WhatsApp until noon, starting today.
August 2025 — Life Recap
Kali training, Danny's 8th birthday, beer sessions with friends, and the quiet realisation that we are all really ageing.
The Missing Thing for a Perfect Sunset
A radio host was talking about what makes a perfect sunset. I thought I knew the answer. My wife knew better.
The Day My Daughter Stole Something From Me
My 6-year-old asked me a simple question about stealing. My answer surprised both of us.
The Hourly Check-In That Changed Everything
I used to be overwhelmed by my to-do list, always busy but never making real progress. Then I found a stupid-simple practice that fixed it.
Building Slow
The long reads: what I build, what breaks, and the real numbers behind running a small agency on AI. On Substack.
I stopped selling WordPress sites. Here's what I build instead.
A five-day outage, an AI that can't click, and the honest trade-off for my clients.
I replaced my freelancers with AI. Here are the 4 files that made it work.
Eleven months, real costs, real mistakes.. and the one job AI still can't do.
Stop hunting for the perfect prompt. Start a mistake log.
I've logged 1,685 AI lessons since April. Here's how a plain text file turns them into rules.
What I run
About Me
So, Who Am I?
Hey, I'm Daniel.
Building websites for Sabah businesses since 2010
Brisbane, and a list of food
It started with a blog post. While I was doing my Master's in Brisbane I wrote "43 Foods You Must Eat at Kota Kinabalu" and it went viral. People kept messaging me for travel recommendations, so I passed them to a local travel agent who paid me a commission at the end of the month.
I'd rather build the thing that sends the leads
That was the click... I did not have to answer the questions, I could build the thing that sends the leads. So I did. Car rentals, hotel bookings, tours, a stack of travel websites built to generate leads for the industry, back before Grab and Agoda owned the space. Same idea I have been running ever since.
What that looks like now
Today that is BINGO Web Design, two media sites, two SaaS products, and two e-commerce brands, one of them run with my wife. I build most of it myself, automate whatever I can stand to automate, and still pick the kids up from school every afternoon.
Why I write it down
I write here to document the build honestly... what shipped, what broke, and the system I actually used. Not the highlight reel. My rule for this month is ship before build, and I break it often enough that I had to write it down.
That's what I'm building. How about you?
I post my week every Sunday. Tell me about yours on LinkedIn, or get the long reads by email.
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