Nearly 4000 Hours Invested in AI Learning and Building in 11 months

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Jun 18 (edited) • Wins 🌟

Just almost a yearly wrap up. That is what it adds up to. Since August 2025, roughly 12 hours a day, every single day, building. No weekends off. No waiting for the right moment. Just learning & building.

In the beginning it was not really building yet. It was learning and building at the same time. August, September, October, November were months of studying deep into the night, figuring out how all of this actually works. ( watched a lot of hours

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videos) Slowly the balance tipped, and building became the bigger part. But one habit never changed: I still make a real study of every project before I start building it. Understand it first, then build it right.

People ask what all those hours turned into. Here is the honest answer.

I built things, a lot of them, mostly hands-on: ( I have 70 repos in Github)

- Internal dashboards and a full Command Center to guide and steer our team in Uganda, so distance never becomes a wall.

- Tailor-made CRM systems for food companies.

- An operating system for an apple pie business.

- Plexaris, a 16-week course platform to train students in Uganda, and

- PRACTIQ Pro, an AI learning platform.

- Plexaris AGRI, helping farmers in Africa become EU Deforestation Regulation compliant.

- FoDiQ, Food Digital IQ for CPG and Foodservice.

- SPEAQ, encrypted messaging with quantum-safe cryptography, now a native app, and

- SPEAQ ID, sovereign digital identity. Access everything, give nothing.

- HAKI, a legal-access platform for people in Uganda who normally never reach a lawyer. Product is build by the team in Uganda. Plexaris Command center to support and manage the team in Uganda

- Plexaris HR, a complete HR platform running live, with payroll and post-quantum encryption.

- DOQENT, a masterpiece for teachers, built together with a teacher from Slovenia.

- CLARIQ, Where Clarity Meets Intelligence, C-level English learning, built with an Australian who lives in France.

- And dozens of websites along the way and projects which are still in Stealth mode.

- Started 4 companies with great partners along the way and there are more to come.

But here is the part the hours do not capture.

The best thing about these 4000 hours is not the software. It is the people. A teacher in Slovenia who shares my obsession with how people learn. An Australian in France who saw the same gap I did. A team in Uganda that now owns its own work. I set out to build products, and somewhere along the way I met extraordinary people, and together we are turning these ideas into real things headed for the market.

That is the lesson. You do not need a big company or perfect conditions. You need to start, show up every day, study before you build, stay honest about what is not working, and the right people will find you in the work.

Nearly 4000 hours in, and I have never been more sure this is just the beginning.

What are you building in the last 6 months?

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Nearly 4000 Hours Invested in AI Learning and Building in 11 months