No CS degree. No bootcamp. Just YouTube tutorials, Stack Overflow at 2am, and a lot of stubbornness.
Over the last year I built a full SaaS completely alone Flask backend, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery workers, OpenAI integration, YouTube API OAuth, payment webhooks, the whole thing. Every bug was a lesson. Every deployment that crashed taught me something the tutorials never mentioned.
I'm launching soon and honestly terrified but also proud of how far self-education can take you if you're consistent.
Would love to connect with other real-life problem-solving founders here,
Most of us are paying Google, Apple, or Dropbox every month to store files photos, videos, documents on their servers, and still we use external SSDs, pen drives etc we own has more storage than we actually use.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. The average person pays anywhere from 130 to 850 a month for cloud storage depending on the plan. Over five years that adds up to a significant amount of money spent on something that is essentially just file access access to files that could theoretically live on hardware we already own.
The self-hosted storage space has existed for a while tools like Nextcloud and similar options but they have traditionally required a home server, technical knowledge, and a fair amount of setup time. They were built for enthusiasts, not everyday users.
I ve been using AI coding tools Claude and Codex more often lately, and I keep running into the same problem:
I explain the task clearly
The agent writes a big chunk of code
The code looks correct at first glance
I start reviewing it and realise I don t fully know why some decisions were made
Now the fast part becomes slow because I have to reverse-engineer the changes
The issue isn t that the AI writes bad code every time. Sometimes it writes useful code. The harder part is staying confident that I understand what changed, why it changed, and what might break later.
