• alex becker — i watched him build hyros into a $200m+ saas, and learnt a lot from him.
• sam ovens — followed him closely; it was interesting watching him build skool.
• nous research — their story is motivating: how just two people can create enough value for the world to become a billion-dollar company.
• anthony de mello — taught me more about the mind and life than anyone else.
• naval — for sharing wisdom when it was the right time.
• arie scherson — a genuine guru whose community changed my whole life.

the long list — from the cv (april 2026) plus what's on this machine. year, then month — click a year, then a month, and the info from that time opens below. “· —” means sometime that year. project photos are real; personal ones are placeholders until you drop them in.

• 2018 the first business +
  • · — dropshipping begins, age 13 +

    at 13, e-commerce — dropshipping from china to the international market. “my first taste of business — from that moment, addicted.”

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2018-dropshipping.mp4

    

• 2019 the $40k month +
  • · — one product, $40k in a month +

    at 14: $40k revenue in 1 month, two more $30k months. 200+ products tested, 1–2 all-nighters a week, sleeping under the table at school. first employee ever at 14: customer support. thin margins, though.

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2019-40k.mp4

    

• 2020 fiverr & the press +
  • · 01 left school & home, age 15 +

    $0 in the bank, but the bold decision: don't finish high school, move to a city apartment, chase business full-time. “one of the best decisions i've made.”

    

  • · — fiverr — $10k/mo in 2 months +

    no money left — so freelanced the video editing skills picked up making ads. $10k/mo within 2 months, strong margins. the beginning of the agency.

    

  • · — the 2-week system +

    2 weeks built 5+ years of autopilot: a full system of video editors and managers that ran the business itself. payroll every 2 weeks, travel the rest of the time. #1 of ~50,000 fiverr accounts in the niche · 19,400+ orders · 22 staff · $33k peak month.

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2020-system.mp4

    

  • · 12 press — daily mail & yahoo finance +

    at 16 the papers came: “high school dropout, 16, … earns up to $30k a month” (daily mail) and “meet the 16-year-old drop-out making $120,000 a year” (yahoo finance).

    

• 2021 press & the dark years +
  • · 01 press — news.com.au +

    “teenager harry edwards is raking in $100,000 a year by selling his video editing skills on fiverr.”

    

  • · — the depressed years +

    ~2 years of depression while the business ran itself. goals, vision boards, then video games and sad sleep — could have 10x'd it, couldn't. the fix: delivering pizza on a bike at domino's to get out of the house. “a successful business with an unhealthy mind doesn't grow.”

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2021-dark.mp4

    

• 2022 kenya +
  • · — nairobi, kenya — alone at 17 +

    moved alone at 17, spent the 18th birthday in solitude. ended up with an office and a team of 11, lived there ~2.5 years. the fiverr system kept running — payroll every 2 weeks, travel the rest.

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2022-kenya.mp4

    

    

• 2023 padelbuddy & the failures +
  • · 03 press — sydney morning herald +

    “give gen z workers room, and watch them grow.”

    

  • · — the failed experiments +

    replyify — ai replies for meta ads, my first saas, a year before the market category existed; 5 months of funding devs, never shipped. a year later others built the same idea into large companies. vizure (appointment agency) and vivity (webflow studio): under a month each.

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2023-fails.mp4

    

  • · — profesa & the upwork agency — both banned +

    profesa: matched $250–$500/hr specialists with short freelance work. in parallel, my own upwork profile landed 3 clients in 5 days, routed to editors in kenya & the philippines. both profiles banned — against the rules.

    

  • · 09 padelbuddy begins — 3 years · $50k · 10+ companies waiting +

    started the day chatgpt released image analysis — the moment i knew what a VLM could do. the app i play the sport every day and need. 3 years, $50k+ self-funded, three failed outsourced attempts, then in 2025: mvp coded solo. 10+ companies already waiting to buy. hardware is the last missing piece — that's why shenzhen.

    video — drop yours at
    assets/padelbuddy.mp4

    

    

• 2024 dabu & the press +
  • · — grammaticgenius — ~1,000 users +

    a free chrome extension: one click, an LLM tidies up grammar in any chat box. ~1,000 users. never figured out how to monetise it — moved on.

    

  • · — dabu — $20k, 3 teams, 10 developers +

    ai video-ad automation — i was my own guaranteed customer. ~$20k of my own money, 3 teams, ~10 developers. all failed. “i could see ai could do it, but the software wasn't getting built.” the moment that ended outsourced development forever.

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2024-dabu.mp4

    

  • · 06 press — herald sun +

    “is tertiary education still essential for career success?”

    

  • · 08 press — 7news +

    “how aussie dropout turned his side hustle into a million-dollar business before age 20.”

    

• 2025 solo coding +
  • · 01 enzi — the san francisco startup +

    went to sf to meet people, then funded a small startup: 3 full-time developers, 4 apps shipped fast — niyoz (youtube → daily ceo report), fubuu (voice note → x & linkedin), inboxclarity (ceo report of what happened while you slept), phonicsmaker v1 (built for mum).

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2025-enzi.mp4

    

  • · 03 the pivot — solo coding +

    funds low, apps not profitable, and sonnet 3.5 dropped in cursor. closed the sf company, let the team go, went alone. “it felt magical to be able to build again.” 7 years of managing with money — now rediscovering foundational work. 1-person company from here on.

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2025-pivot.mp4

    

  • · 07 cognition.cv — 1 month in lijiang, china +

    the passion project: begun jun 2024 as a 14-day gemini emotion-mapping challenge, then rebuilt over 1 month in lijiang (jul 2025) exclusively coding: visualise your life from your own whatsapp data — what makes you happy, sad, why, who, when. privacy-first, all processing in the browser. 3 customers. “happy i built a beautiful product. moved on.” — it comes back as a marketplace on omo.best in 2026.

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2025-lijiang.mp4

    

    

  • · — padelbuddy mvp — coded solo +

    after 3 failed outsourced attempts, the mvp got built by my own hands. showed friends and mentors — they loved it. but funds were low and phonicsmaker was growing, so the pivot short-term: generate runway, then fund padelbuddy properly.

    

• 2026 shenzhen +
  • · 03 phonicsmaker — product-market fit +

    reactivated the storybook generator built for mum, fixed the bugs: $9.7k in month 1. 10–20 customers/day, $40 cac against a $140 annual sub, first whole school at $1k/year. end of april: $200/day on facebook ads → $500–1,000/day first-touch. may est. $25k. 1-person company, margins great.

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2026-phonics.mp4

    

    

    

    

  • · 04 douyin hackathon — won, without speaking chinese +

    vision & voice category, shenzhen. no cs degree, no chinese — just ai-coding experience. 1 hour of sleep on the floor of peking university night one, zero night two. won. “that's the enthusiasm i have for learning new things.”

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2026-douyin.mp4

    

    

  • · 04 attrax hackathon — omo, 3rd in 2.5 days +

    omo — voice-first holographic ai cofounder, with a 15-year-old partner. solo-coded the entire software stack, 3–6 claude code agents in parallel, 16-hour stretches in the hotel room. 3rd place. since: strong inbound investor interest — now fundraising. plan: usable v1 in 2 weeks, first mrr in.

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2026-omo.mp4

    

    

  • · 06 now — shenzhen +

    learning hardware — the last missing piece before padelbuddy ships. seriously thinking of making china home. padel 1.5–3 hours every day, non-negotiable. the plan: scale & sell phonicsmaker → fund padelbuddy properly. 25 flights in 2024, 30 in 2025, 8 already in 2026. “keep moving, or the mind freezes.”

    video — drop yours at
    assets/2026-now.mp4

    

  • · 06 agentjam — first prize, shenzhen university +

    another hackathon, another win: the agent builder hackathon at shenzhen university — 4 hours, and first prize (一等奖). the whole arc filmed: walking cold-open with your real voice, live in-world demo, team dinner. this is the film.

  • · 07 scaling — the ad machine +

    the month everything moved: phonicsmaker sold — 8 jul, clean handover (maziwa llc), the war chest for padelbuddy. the ugc ad machine went full in-house: minecraft-kid ads, caption styles, remakes — plus the whole playbook: ads, seo, email, sales, accounting, retention, legal. and omo world shipped: the eu cloud-gaming pilot (9 jul), the 45-second launch film, and the 3-minute manifesto — "the world was always the interface". every build filmed along the way.

    

    

  • · 08 now — the marketplace era +

    one company, many bets: omo.best — the ai helper store (cognition reborn as a marketplace); padelbuddyai — full-stack padel match analysis, shipping daily; the fiverr relaunch — the old agency reborn as an ai-gig machine, $4k → $40k mrr target; the de mello archive — 100+ recordings found, animated story films in the works; morelife, woven, dealseal experiments; and the personal brand film in progress — the interview shot jul 20. "i wouldn't be where i am now without the mandatory experience of failing."