Here's How I Built My First SaaS and the Stack Behind It

It Started With My Brother My brother has a habit. Whenever he's studying from a YouTube video, he doesn't just watch it — he wants to be tested on it. Every time, he'd come to me: "Can you make me a quiz from this video?" Every. Single. Time. The first few times, I did it manually. Watched the video, wrote some questions, and formatted them. It took longer to make the quiz than it took him to watch the video. There had to be a better way. That frustration became Skoowl AI. I'm Fais — a 20-year-old CS enthusiast from Indonesia. I had never shipped a full SaaS product before. I had the technical background (Next.js, TypeScript, some AI/ML work), but building something real that is deployed and actually used was new territory. This is the full story of how I built Skoowl AI : what it does, every major tech decision, the AI pipeline that powers it, and what's coming next. What Is Skoowl AI? Skoowl AI is a study platform that takes raw educational content — PDFs, audio recordings, YouTube