{"id":610,"date":"2025-06-25T21:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.s3dmaker.fr\/?page_id=610"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:10:07","slug":"a-propos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.s3dmaker.fr\/en\/a-propos\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ap-page\">\n\n<style>\n.ap-page * { box-sizing: border-box; }\n.ap-page { background: #0a0a0a; color: #e0e0e0; font-family: 'Inter', sans-serif; }\n.ap-hero { background: #0d0d0d; padding: 80px 40px 60px; text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid #1a1a1a; }\n.ap-tag { font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 0.75rem; color: #ff6b00; letter-spacing: 0.15em; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 24px; }\n.ap-hero h1 { font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif; font-size: clamp(2rem, 5vw, 3.5rem); font-weight: 800; color: #fff; margin: 0 0 20px; line-height: 1.1; }\n.ap-hero p { font-size: 1.15rem; color: #aaa; max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; line-height: 1.7; }\n.ap-section { padding: 60px 40px; max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto; }\n.ap-section h2 { font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; color: #ff6b00; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 24px; }\n.ap-section p { color: #ccc; line-height: 1.8; font-size: 1.05rem; margin-bottom: 18px; }\n.ap-section strong { color: #fff; }\n.ap-section-alt { padding: 60px 40px; background: #0d0d0d; border-top: 1px solid #1a1a1a; border-bottom: 1px solid #1a1a1a; }\n.ap-section-alt-inner { max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto; }\n.ap-section-alt h2 { font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; color: #ff6b00; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 24px; }\n.ap-section-alt p { color: #ccc; line-height: 1.8; font-size: 1.05rem; margin-bottom: 18px; }\n.ap-section-alt strong { color: #fff; }\n.ap-timeline { padding: 60px 40px; border-top: 1px solid #1a1a1a; border-bottom: 1px solid #1a1a1a; }\n.ap-timeline-inner { max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto; }\n.ap-timeline h2 { font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; color: #ff6b00; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 40px; }\n.ap-step { display: flex; gap: 24px; margin-bottom: 36px; align-items: flex-start; }\n.ap-step-year { font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 0.85rem; color: #ff6b00; min-width: 80px; padding-top: 4px; }\n.ap-step-text { color: #ccc; line-height: 1.7; font-size: 1rem; border-left: 2px solid #222; padding-left: 24px; }\n.ap-step-text strong { color: #fff; display: block; margin-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif; }\n.ap-projects { padding: 60px 40px; max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto; }\n.ap-projects h2 { font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; color: #ff6b00; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 36px; }\n.ap-project-card { background: #111; border: 1px solid #222; border-radius: 8px; padding: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; }\n.ap-project-card h3 { font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif; color: #fff; font-size: 1.1rem; margin: 0 0 10px; }\n.ap-project-card p { color: #aaa; margin: 0; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 0.95rem; }\n.ap-project-card a { color: #ff6b00; text-decoration: none; }\n.ap-cta { padding: 60px 40px; text-align: center; background: #0d0d0d; border-top: 1px solid #1a1a1a; }\n.ap-cta h2 { font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif; font-size: 1.6rem; color: #fff; margin-bottom: 16px; }\n.ap-cta p { color: #aaa; margin-bottom: 32px; font-size: 1.05rem; }\n.ap-btn { display: inline-block; background: #ff6b00; color: #000; font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-weight: 700; font-size: 0.85rem; letter-spacing: 0.1em; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 16px 32px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 4px; margin: 8px; }\n<\/style>\n\n  <div class=\"ap-hero\">\n    <div class=\"ap-tag\">\/\/ About<\/div>\n    <h1>My name is Stef.<\/h1>\n    <p>Entrepreneur since the age of 20. Restaurateur for over ten years. Food truck owner by accident. App developer out of necessity.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"ap-section\">\n    <h2>The Story<\/h2>\n    <p>It all started with a take-out pizza place at age 20. Then a PVC window company \u2013 which went bankrupt. Then a Japanese restaurant with my wife, who is from Laos, where we cooked for over ten years. In November 2019, we sold it. Canada was waiting for us.<\/p>\n    <p>And then Covid arrived. First lockdown. And immediately after, a medical diagnosis: <strong>Bilateral coxarthrosis. Hip replacement at 44 years old.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <p>It was in this context that a friend, an entrepreneur named Beno\u00eet, arrived with an idea for a Thai restaurant. He hired my wife. And very quickly, a new idea was born: why not try the mobile version? He offered to let me handle the truck. My first reaction: <em>\u00abStreet food? I don't know anything about it!\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n    <p>And then almost immediately: it's the same job. A functioning kitchen, that's all. Except that instead of being anchored in the same place every day, I could move around. <strong>No longer feel stuck.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <p>Two years later, two food trucks were doing well. Beno\u00eet's restaurant, however, had disappeared: the mobile business had proven to be much more profitable and flexible. Until a serious accident stopped him. We finished the year together, and the food truck chapter closed.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"ap-section-alt\">\n    <div class=\"ap-section-alt-inner\">\n      <h2>\/\/ The other passion<\/h2>\n      <p>In parallel with all of that, there's computers. A passion that goes back to <strong>1995 and my first Cyrix x86<\/strong>. At the time, it was already an obsession\u2014understanding how it worked, tinkering, testing. Thirty years later, it's still the same curiosity that makes me code apps at midnight.<\/p>\n      <p>And when it comes to endurance... <strong>10 years of World of Warcraft<\/strong>, <strong>10 years of Destiny 2<\/strong>, and the four Diablos. I can handle the duration, the resets, and the patches that break everything. It builds character as an entrepreneur, somewhere.<\/p>\n      <p>It's this mix\u2014terrain, cuisine, struggles, and tech passion\u2014that gave birth to <strong>Flash Poster<\/strong> an app designed by someone who really needed to use it.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"ap-timeline\">\n    <div class=\"ap-timeline-inner\">\n      <h2>\/\/ The path<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"ap-step\">\n        <div class=\"ap-step-year\">1995<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ap-step-text\"><strong>Cyrix x86 Premier<\/strong>The beginning of a passion that never stopped. Tinkering, understanding, coding. Thirty years and several generations of machines later, it remains intact.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ap-step\">\n        <div class=\"ap-step-year\">20 years old<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ap-step-text\"><strong>Takeout Pizzeria<\/strong>First entrepreneurial experience. Delivery driver during high school years, the initial investment was reasonable. The beginning of everything.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ap-step\">\n        <div class=\"ap-step-year\">2000s<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ap-step-text\"><strong>Japanese restaurant<\/strong>Over ten years of Asian cuisine with my wife. Sold in November 2019.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ap-step\">\n        <div class=\"ap-step-year\">2020<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ap-step-text\"><strong>COVID + hip replacement<\/strong>The Canada Project has fallen through. A serious hip problem at 44. And yet, that's where everything starts again.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ap-step\">\n        <div class=\"ap-step-year\">2021\u20132023<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ap-step-text\"><strong>Food truck<\/strong>Zero experience in mobile vending. Two trucks that run well. Events, struggles, real numbers \u2014 and the idea of an ebook so I don't keep it all to myself.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ap-step\">\n        <div class=\"ap-step-year\">2024<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ap-step-text\"><strong>Flash Poster<\/strong>To quickly create menu posters on the truck, I'm developing my own app. It's so useful that I've decided to share it.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ap-step\">\n        <div class=\"ap-step-year\">2025\u20132026<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ap-step-text\"><strong>S3D Maker<\/strong>The ebook is released. Flash Poster is released on the Play Store. And Canada is getting closer again \u2014 our eldest son now lives there.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"ap-projects\">\n    <h2>What I'm doing today<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"ap-project-card\">\n      <h3>\ud83d\udcd6 Food Truck \u2014 Surviving in the Wild<\/h3>\n      <p>The ebook I wish I had read before starting. 9 chapters of lived experience: real budget, steps, equipment, events, profitability. Unfiltered. <a href=\"\/en\/food-truck-ebook\/\">View ebook \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ap-project-card\">\n      <h3>\u26a1 Flash Poster<\/h3>\n      <p>An app born in the field, to create professional menu posters in seconds from a smartphone. Developed for me, shared for you. <a href=\"\/en\/flash-poster-creer-affiche-prix\/\">Discover Flash Poster \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"ap-cta\">\n    <h2>A question? A project?<\/h2>\n    <p>I reply to all messages.<\/p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.s3dmaker.fr\/en\/contact\/\" class=\"ap-btn\" style=\"color:#000 !important;\">Contact me<\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Food-Truck-Survivre-sur-terrain-ebook\/dp\/B0H2NTWJ3J\" class=\"ap-btn\" style=\"background:#111; color:#ff6b00; border: 1px solid #ff6b00;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The food truck ebook<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/ \u00c0 propos Je m&rsquo;appelle Stef. Entrepreneur depuis l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 20 ans. Restaurateur pendant plus de dix ans. Food trucker par accident. D\u00e9veloppeur d&rsquo;applis par n\u00e9cessit\u00e9. \/\/ L&rsquo;histoire Tout a commenc\u00e9 avec une pizzeria \u00e0 emporter, \u00e0 20 ans. Ensuite une entreprise de fen\u00eatres PVC \u2014 qui a coul\u00e9. 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