Starting Over at 40

Introduction

I spent my 20s and 30s as a developer. Then in my late 30s, I moved into project management.

And then my 40s arrived, bringing a lot of changes.

Back in the early 2010s when I first started coding, being a one-person developer was actually possible. You could build a whole site by yourself and it was enough.

But as the decade went on, technology grew more complex. Backend, frontend, and design became separate disciplines. The development process fractured into specializations. Solo development became nearly impossible.

Around that same time, I shifted from engineering to PM work — and by 2021, I had stopped writing code entirely.

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Then came this period of stepping back. And over the past year, AI has moved incredibly fast.

At first I was skeptical. How much can AI really do?

Then I saw a site generated from a two-line prompt. I was floored.

That early 2010s feeling came back — maybe one person really could build something meaningful again.

So I decided to start over.

I've had ideas for years. Products I wanted to build, things I wanted to make. Time always felt like an excuse. Being busy always felt like a reason to wait.

I want to actually make them now.

I'm not a video person — I grew up with text, and text is still where I'm most comfortable. So instead of a YouTube channel, I'm writing.

This site was built with AI in a few hours. Domain connected in two. That alone felt like proof of concept.

Going forward, I'll write about what I build here — one thing at a time.