Est. August 2025 — Ongoing
Still Unemployed.
Still Building.
This is an honest, occasionally embarrassing, and hopefully funny documentation of 9 months of unemployment. No job, but plenty of things built, tried, failed, and tried again.
Life is a tragedy in close-up but a comedy in wide-shot. I'm choosing to film wide.
Sometimes I'll do stupid things just to make the story more interesting. You're welcome.
The Fun Journey
Apps I built
Turn any photo into a piece of art. Apply real-time effects, dither, halftone, pixel art, LEGO bricks, ASCII, and glitch directly in your browser.
Capture moments with a retro Polaroid camera. Take photos, draw on them with colorful tools, arrange your gallery.
Design 3D structures with LEGO bricks. Pick colors, place and rotate bricks, then export your creation to explore your imagination.
Play the virtual piano using your camera by touching the air. Hand tracking and fireworks effects included.
Professional network management system for organizing connections and tracking relationships.
Design & Illustration
What I'm looking for
or work with me.
Either works.
AI Manifesto
"I use AI like a chainsaw, not a brain. It cuts fast, loud, and sometimes in the wrong direction. It doesn't think, it executes. I decide what stays, what goes, and what gets completely redone. Speed is rented. Judgment is owned."
AI is my intern. A very fast, slightly unhinged intern.
It generates, suggests, explores. I approve, reject, refine. Speed is outsourced. Taste is not.
I don't worship tools. I use them.
AI helps me skip the boring parts, not the thinking parts. If it saves me 5 hours, I spend that time making the idea better. Not scrolling. Ideally.
What makes me different?
I don't confuse output with craft. Anyone can prompt. Not everyone can judge. I'm still the bottleneck. That's the point.
AI doesn't make me creative. It makes me faster at being creative.
And faster at being wrong. So I stay in control, fix the mess, and ship the work. Because in the end, it's not AI's name on it. It's mine.
About Me
Rudy P. Agnel
Principal Designer · Builder · Resigned with Dignity
I'm a principal designer and illustrator based in Bandung, Indonesia. I've been unemployed since August 2025 and honestly it has been one of the most creatively productive periods of my life.
In 9 months I built 5 apps, took illustration and design work, sent 100 cold emails, entered 10+ hackathons, got a reply from Gary Vee in 3 minutes, and documented the whole thing here.
I see all of this as comedy. Close up it looks rough. Wide shot, it's a great story. I'm genuinely funny (objectively). And I use AI as a creative tool, not a replacement for thinking, just a way to think faster.
Contact
If you have a job, a project, or just want to tell me the Gary Vee story was embarrassing, I'm here. I check my email more than is healthy right now.
Say Hello :)Response time: faster than most employed people.