May 10, 2024
I have tried including as much as I remember, but I probably forgot a lot.
More to come as future approaches.
2024-02-15: Curlyhair, An AI curly hair generator that allows you to see how you would look like with curly hair. I created it because I wanted to try out creating a micro-startup and learn about generative AI, but it's not making much profit.
2023-03-16: Worldflagify , A database of malicious addresses based on real humans reporting, verified by Worldcoin. It was a hackathon project, and was only done in a few hours.
2023-06-13: I started researching bookkeeping and I was surprised that there were no services like Bokio for Finland. I started prototyping it, but realized it's easier to just use excel anyways.
2023-06-13: I had the idea of a service which allowed people that owned private jets to transport cargo on their empty legs. That idea evolved into a global shipping network where it worked like Uber works, but for shipping through partnerships with postal companies. I applied for YC W24 with it and got denied for YC which made me realize the concept is way too advanced to work on as a solo entrepreneur. Like Levelsio said in his talk, “some people want to start by building a space company”. It won’t work for now.
2023-11-21: Notan, A page-specific note extension. It can be a good product, but I’m not sure if there are people that actually want to use it and pay for it. But the positive aspects are that I learnt much about startups, got better contacts and learnt about extension development. This also made me realize that I don’t want to sell my time, but sell a product.
2022-01-20: Reparty, In the start of 2022 Houseparty announced that they were going to shut down. I could really not find any better alternatives so I wanted to build my own. Sadly I don’t think my technical knowledge or motivation was enough back then, because I never really finished it.
2022-08-27: Charlie-R90 Started building a rocket flight computer in Rust with Arduino, but I couldn't get the hardware to continue.
2022-11-09: I was working together with a friend for a fitness App idea he had. I helped making the initial app based on his designs.
Then sometime in 2022 an old friend of mine asked me to help them with a Roblox game which had a large audience. I helped lots with their UI, which teached me tons.
I participated in another hackathon and won for the first time, even though it was just a small price.
Most of 2022 I was busy working with contracting work.
Most of my projects I created during 2021 are open-source and available on my GitHub. There are more projects than I mentioned, but I felt some were too small to mention.
I also started creating a few freelancing projects.
2021-01-12: WSR-Tools, Windows desktop customization tool. I really got into C# and windows development and made numerous windows applications.
2021-01-12: zzCrack, One period I was learning much about ethical hacking and pentesting. This led to creating this and to inspiration for future projects.
2021-03-20: Some people found me on discord and wanted help with their projects, and I ended up helping to create a social media website like Twitter. Nothing much happened with it though, and the project kind off disappeared along with its owner.
2021-05-02: Shelf, Something made me very interested in how to make my own programming language, and I started researching it a lot. I ended up following a tutorial series on how to create a programming language in C and named the language Shelf.
2021-06-04: Rustcat. In the summer I decided to learn Rust. I am not a person that learns by theory, I like to learn practically. My way to learn Rust was to create a project in it.
2021-06-25: Cubybot, A simple Discord bot written in discord . py
2021-07-30: AlphaClicker, Windows Autoclicker with a modern UI that I made because I thought the existing ones looked old. With this I could finally see myself as a pro programmer.
2021-08-09: Candy Simulator, a Roblox game where you eat candy. It teached me much about creating 3d assets in blender.
2021-09-17: totall, A cli to count lines in all files in directories and subdirectories easily.
2021-09-18: coding-project-ideas, My first own Next.js website ever, and it was created for a Cloudflare hackathon.
2021-09-30: cbot, A simple x64_86 assembly program to turn off or reboot your computer.
2021-10-03: XClicker, I was using Linux a lot and I needed a good Autoclicker. I later in 2022 won a price for it in Helsinki.
2021-10-29: Zash, The logic behind how shells worked interested me, so I made my own custom shell in Rust.
In 2020, there was a competition in my city for innovation, and my teachers encouraged me to apply. I was in a group of three, but one member didn’t contribute—typical group project stuff.
The day of the competition was approaching, but we still didn’t have any ideas. Then, a thought struck me as I was falling asleep. I wrote it down and presented it to my group the next morning. They liked it, so I quickly created a prototype using Adobe XD. It was my first digital design ever, and I still look back at it to see how much I’ve improved haha.
We ended up winning a prize from Håkan Lans. He is a Swedish inventor, and his story is actually quite interesting. He has invented lots of stuff used worldwide, been involved in international legal troubles, and known Steve Jobs personally, if I recall correctly. So, in short, he's a pretty interesting guy.
I remember making a simple HTML webpages with just buttons while waiting for the judges in the venue. It was nothing special, but I think this was one of the first websites I made.
End of 2020, I didn’t have much to do. This made me join a lot of discord servers with topics I thought were interesting. There I met people older than me, that had made discord bots, which I thought was incredibly cool, but felt impossible. I thought it was way too cool, and I was jealous they could do cool stuff that I couldn’t, so I started learning, and continuously building more stuff.
I wanted to build an autoclicker, but I couldn’t. Then I said to myself “The day I can create an AutoClicker, I will consider myself as a good programmer.”
In the start of 2019, I created tons of scratch projects. Most of them were after following Youtube tutorial, but I remember adding my own twist to some games. Then I made some shit games myself.
It started with when I bought a book called "Hjälp ditt barn med programmering - Carol Vorderman" which explained the simple principles of scratch and python.
At first I made simple games using scratch directly from the book, one of which was a game where you move a monkey left-to-right to catch falling bananas.
Then we had an enthusiastic IT-guy at our school that engaged in teaching scratch to us at 10 years old. I knew most stuff already so I ended up helping other people.
Eventually I wanted to try out python and made simple games from the book. I didn't really read about what the code did, but mostly copied everything and looked it up afterwards. I made, among other games, a text-based game where you are in a ghost house and select a door (1,2,3) until you get one with a ghost behind.
I remember trying out pygame and tkinter and managed to recreate some small projects from the book.
I started playing lots of Roblox and made a few small games while following Youtube tutorials.
Then I guess I got quite tired of coding for a while and mostly played games.
When I was just seven years old, I remember my teacher asking everyone in my class what they wanted to be. Others said teachers or doctors; I said innovator. My whole life I have been interested in innovation, and creating things is what I really love.
I was very into locks back then; I loved keys, codes, and it was basically the only thing I thought about. I had an idea and drew a design for a new kind of lock. I want to say that there probably already existed locks that did this, but I was not aware of them back then.
A normal person at the age of 7 would probably have just drawn the design and forgotten about it. I did the exact opposite. Already at that early age, I decided to send the design to my favorite lock company. A few days later, I got a package from them. I was super excited, and I remember that my parents were amazed. I had received thanks from the CEO plus some merch. Thanks CEO! The shirt was sadly a bit big for me.
Later, they released a lock which reminded me of my designs with a bit of changes. I think they took inspiration from my idea I had sent them.
That was the start of my journey at an early age, and I believe it plays an important role in my life.
Oh hey, I'm on Twitter too if you'd like to follow more about what I'm up to. Hopefully I'll see you there! 😊
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