We’re Building an App, and You’re in for the Ride

Hi, I'm Thiago! Honestly, I re-wrote this paragraph way more times than I'm comfortable admitting — but let’s just say I’d define myself simply as "a software engineer." You know, when you’ve been around long enough, pushing code, going from small CRUD apps to big distributed data processing pipelines with high availability and yada yada yada... it gets hard to explain what you actually do in our beloved field. So, "software engineer" it is. No fancy titles. Like many of you, I push buttons and the machine does stuff. Well, now that we’re all living in an era ruled by our AI overlords, I found myself with not enough problems to deal with in life. That led me to remember a past conversation I had with my dear friend (also a software engineer) Rian. The conversation was basically us venting about how we’ve never managed to finish the projects we wanted to start together. We both have our fair share of engineering and even entrepreneurial experience (and have worked together in the past), so it was never about lacking the skills. But somehow, when it came to our own ideas — the personal projects we started outside of our professional work — we never managed to finish them. It’s a familiar story for many engineers, right? Right?! It's like the universe would just rearrange itself to make sure we didn’t finish it. That’s happened with multiple ideas (often brainstormed over a beer, I confess), and even with our YouTube channel, where we made coding tutorials and tech content for a while. Therefore, I proclaim, enough is enough! I'm teaming up with Rian to get our first mobile app off the ground — and this time, the internet is going to be our accountability partner. I can’t promise we’ll stream coding sessions live 24/7, but I can promise constant updates about our journey. And if we find anything interesting along the way, you’ll definitely see a post about it.

Apr 11, 2025 - 16:34

We’re Building an App, and You’re in for the Ride

Hi, I'm Thiago!

Honestly, I re-wrote this paragraph way more times than I'm comfortable admitting — but let’s just say I’d define myself simply as "a software engineer." You know, when you’ve been around long enough, pushing code, going from small CRUD apps to big distributed data processing pipelines with high availability and yada yada yada... it gets hard to explain what you actually do in our beloved field. So, "software engineer" it is. No fancy titles. Like many of you, I push buttons and the machine does stuff.

Well, now that we’re all living in an era ruled by our AI overlords, I found myself with not enough problems to deal with in life. That led me to remember a past conversation I had with my dear friend (also a software engineer) Rian. The conversation was basically us venting about how we’ve never managed to finish the projects we wanted to start together.

We both have our fair share of engineering and even entrepreneurial experience (and have worked together in the past), so it was never about lacking the skills. But somehow, when it came to our own ideas — the personal projects we started outside of our professional work — we never managed to finish them. It’s a familiar story for many engineers, right? Right?! It's like the universe would just rearrange itself to make sure we didn’t finish it. That’s happened with multiple ideas (often brainstormed over a beer, I confess), and even with our YouTube channel, where we made coding tutorials and tech content for a while.

Therefore, I proclaim, enough is enough! I'm teaming up with Rian to get our first mobile app off the ground — and this time, the internet is going to be our accountability partner.

I can’t promise we’ll stream coding sessions live 24/7, but I can promise constant updates about our journey. And if we find anything interesting along the way, you’ll definitely see a post about it.