// a story in 7 scenes
eight years.
mostly in private.
until now.
scroll slowly. this is the version i've never written down before.
a kid. a keyboard. a question.
i was 10. i wanted to play games. then i wondered how games were made. one google search turned into a youtube rabbit hole turned into html, css, copy-coding sites in school. introvert with a keyboard. that's where it started.
"how is this made?"
lockdown. tried everything.
dropshipping. ecom. a clothing brand. a few saas. failed at most. shipped almost none of it publicly — too shy. but i kept building. every failure quietly stacking into something.
"kept building. didn't post."
i walked up uninvited.
robotics club. finished the beginner arduino car so fast i walked over to the humanoid team and said: 'i want in. here's what i bring.' they let me in. it ended up the best project of the club.
"i want in. here's what i bring."
early to ai. late to share.
found ai before most people i knew. bard, gpt, every tool the day it dropped. but i kept shifting projects. didn't ship. didn't post. the same mistake on loop. mistake i'm fixing now.
"early. but invisible."
farza flipped me with one sentence.
"just show it to people. it can be the most ugly thing. ship it, then make it better." one line, exact right moment. the shy kid who built in private finally started showing up.
"ship ugly. ship anyway."
TA by accident.
saw farza's community had questions. nobody was answering. i stepped in. solved. kept solving. they made me a TA. ended up helping 10k+ people learn ai through it.
"solved. kept solving."
done waiting. building loud.
eight years in private. enough. shipping in public now — one ai tool a month, the playbook i wish i had at 14, and a small crew of builders who'd rather make than talk. this site is the start.
"all in. out loud."
