Closing Integrofy

On September 30, 2026, Integrofy comes to an end.

I started it on October 18, 2024. I was 19 and had just started my second year of university. I had very little idea what I was getting into.

I wanted some income of my own and wanted to see what running something looked like. I'm also an introvert, and a company seemed like a reliable way to force myself into situations I would otherwise avoid.

I didn't know how to sell, how to find clients or how most of the business side worked. I learned because I had to.

Integrofy was never big. For most of its life it was me, with friends helping on projects now and then. It still felt real to me, especially the day the paperwork went through and the company actually existed.

On one of my first client calls, the client asked whether I was sure I could handle the project. It was a fair question. I was 19 and working most of it out as I went.

The project went ahead anyway. I kept showing them what I was building, and after a while I no longer had to earn their trust on every call.

That changed me more than I expected. I'm still not the most social person in a room. But I can talk to clients, hold my own in meetings and walk into situations that would have frozen me two years ago.

For a while, Integrofy was a development agency. We built websites, React applications and whatever else clients trusted us with.

The work was good. But I kept building versions of the same few things, and I got bored.

I didn't start building to repeat myself. I wanted to make things I hadn't seen before and find out whether anyone else found them useful.

That led to Drift. Integrofy didn't need a product. I wanted to build Drift, and Integrofy was where I could put it.

Around that time my mental health got worse, and I stopped paying attention to both university and Integrofy. I had plans for both and was doing almost nothing about either.

During that period I noticed how many assumptions I held about myself without ever testing them. One was that I didn't have what it takes to build a company. I was already running one, so the assumption didn't hold up well.

I felt the same thing at the Entrepreneur First selection hackathon. Everyone there seemed to belong. They approached problems differently and had a confidence I didn't. I went numb partway through and didn't make it past selection. I still learned more there than from most things I did that year. The main lesson took a while to sink in. The people in that room weren't a different kind of person, and most of what was stopping me was in my own head.

Drift came out of that. I wanted something that knew what I was trying to do and held me to it. It would notice when I fell back on those assumptions and point it out. I could update it through the day and check whether I was actually moving in the direction I claimed.

I built the first version over a weekend and gave it to a few people. Some of them kept using it.

That was the most fun I had building anything under Integrofy. People told me what Drift had picked up about them, and we had weekly calls and monthly check-ins about whether it was helping. One friend used it while working on their own projects. They didn't want to stop and log every bit of progress, so they told Drift what had happened and let it build the picture for them.

Drift grew to about 300 users. I shut it down in February 2026.

Anchor came from the same idea. Drift understood what you were doing. Anchor sat inside it and nudged you toward the things you said you wanted to do.

These projects taught me something agency work never did. I could build something in a weekend, give it to a few people, and it could help them. I liked building something strange, putting it out there and talking to the people who used it more than anything else I did here.

Eventually Integrofy started to feel different. I caught myself thinking that because I had a company, I had to keep working on it. That is a bad reason to keep something alive.

Integrofy was part of my path. It was never meant to be the whole thing.

When I started, I wanted to prove I could make my own money and be financially independent. That still matters, but it isn't enough anymore. I want the next few years to change me and move my career forward, and ideally to help some of the people around me.

I don't know what that looks like yet. It could be another company, a job or research into things that interest me. I'm in my last year of university, and for the first time in a while I'm fine without an answer.

My university years were unusual. I spent most of them at home or in coworking spaces, working on Integrofy and occasionally leaving on bike trips. Without Integrofy I would have been a regular student with coursework and maybe a part-time job. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm glad I got this version instead.

Integrofy introduced me to entrepreneurship before I knew anything about it. It made me talk to people when I would rather not have, and figure things out before I felt ready.

The thing I got most wrong was balance. I put everything into Integrofy and left myself nothing to fall back on, even though I could see it wasn't sustainable over the long run. When things got hard, there was no second option to lean on. Next time I'll build that in from the start.

Still, I don't count closing it as a failure. From the outside it might look like a 19-year-old took on too much and backed out. That isn't what happened. I started Integrofy for one set of reasons, and I'm ending it with a much clearer idea of what I want. I count that as a good result.

It's still strange to close the first company I built. The name has followed me through almost all of university, and a younger version of me is attached to it. I'll miss it. I'm also looking forward to starting from zero.

Thank you to every client who took a chance on us before there was much evidence we could deliver.

And thank you to the friends who made introductions, helped on projects and freelanced alongside me, so I didn't have to work all of this out alone. We finished the projects we had and went our separate ways, and that's fine.

I'm fairly sure some of you are reading this. Thank you for being with me through all of it.

The code for Drift, Anchor and the other projects built under Integrofy won't disappear with the company. I'm open sourcing all of it.

I may not have the energy to keep working on all of them, but someone else might. If nobody does, the code is still there as a reference for whoever builds something similar later. It's a small way of giving back to a community that gave me a lot over the last two years.

They'll be on github.com/integrofy by the end of October 2026, under the MIT license.

If you had never heard of Integrofy before today, that's fine too. It was an important part of my life, but only one part.

If you want to see what comes after it, you'll find me at 0xrama.com. I don't know yet what that will be. For once, I'm looking forward to finding out.

Thank you for being part of this.