0. Why I’m Growing HAID in Public, Not Building in Public

The Hook Everyone's doing build in public. Twitter (Sorry, X) threads about tech stacks, architecture decisions, deployment pipelines. I love reading those, but that's not what this is. I'm a software engineer with over 15 years of experience. I've shipped products used by thousands of users well before AI was part of anyone's vocabulary. Building is my comfort zone. I know how to do that. Yes, I know build in public is also about early feedback, not literally asking people to write your code. But bear with me. Growth? Marketing? Getting strangers on the internet to care about something I made? I have no idea how to do that. And that's exactly what this series is about: documenting the honest, messy process of a developer figuring out growth from scratch. This is also a return to writing for me. One of my first side projects was marquesfernandes.com , which nowadays is more of a portfolio than a blog. But back then, writing was good for me. It forced me to think more deeply, learn thin