UX/UI graduate, frustrated with my course, accidentally built a whole platform

Hey, I'm Maria — UX/UI graduate who accidentally built a platform

I graduated in UX/UI in 2025 with no idea what came next. Honestly I was frustrated — the course barely taught me anything practical. No design systems, no code, no understanding of what happens after a Figma handoff. I learned more in a few months teaching myself than I did in the entire degree.

So I started picking up React, TypeScript, Next.js, Supabase — partly to fill the gaps, partly because I didn't want to be left behind as AI changed everything. I wanted to actually use these new tools, not just read about them.

Somewhere in that process I accidentally ended up building a whole product. Pinnlo is an AI business partner for solopreneurs — it helps you go from idea to structured, actionable deliverables where everything builds on what came before. Not a chatbot, not a template generator.

None of this was the plan. I just wanted to stay relevant, learn what my course didn't teach me, and make the most of AI while I'm young enough to grow with it. It turned into a full product, a video pipeline, and a one-person design+engineering loop.

Would love to connect with other vibe coders, especially anyone who fell into building something by accident.