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NOW.
2025.

A living document. What I'm currently building, what I believe, and what I'm figuring out. Inspired by nownownow.com

01 — CURRENT FOCUS
Growing ExplainMate
Improving retention, expanding features, and reaching more students.
Growing Plintrix
Refining the AI mentorship loop and onboarding to reduce early drop-off.
Expanding Avenoric
Building Avenoric's presence as a recognizable AI product company, not just a portfolio entry.
Improving product quality
Investing in the edges: onboarding flows, error states, and the moments most founders ignore.
Building distribution channels
Learning how to get products in front of people without relying on viral moments.
LONG-TERM GOAL

Build Avenoric into a respected AI product company known for solving real-world problems — not for chasing trends.

02 — WHAT I BELIEVE
Users > Features

A product with 10 loyal users beats a product with 100 features nobody uses.

Retention > Traffic

I learned this the hard way. A viral reel brought thousands of visitors to ExplainMate. Sign-in bugs sent most of them away. Traffic without retention is noise.

Shipping > Planning

The plan is never as good as the feedback from real users. Ship the thing. Learn. Adjust.

Real products > Portfolio projects

I don't build to impress. I build to solve. The difference shows in the decisions you make when nobody is watching.

Complete beats feature-rich

A product should feel complete before launch, even if it isn't feature-complete. One thing done right beats five things done halfway.

03 — WHAT I'M FIGURING OUT
User acquisition without a marketing budget.
Building sustainable distribution that doesn't rely on viral moments.
Maintaining focus across two live products simultaneously.
Building systems that can run without constant hands-on maintenance.
04 — CURRENT STACK
Next.js
App router, full-stack.
TypeScript
Everything typed.
Firebase
Auth, Firestore, Storage.
Google Cloud
Cloud Run, GCS.
Gemini API
Core AI layer.
Redis
Caching and rate limiting.
Python
Backend AI pipelines.
Ollama
Local LLM testing.
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