I Got Bored of Tutorials at 13 and Built a Top-3 Bun Framework Instead

There's a trap that kills most developers before they ever get good. You finish a tutorial. You understand it. You feel ready. Then you open a blank file and freeze — because the tutorial told you what to type, but it didn't teach you how to think. So you watch another tutorial. Then another. Then another. That's tutorial hell. I almost got stuck in it at 13. Instead I built PrinceJS — one of the top three fastest Bun web frameworks in the world. The Tutorial Hell Trap I'm from Abuja, Nigeria. I've been coding for a couple of years, mostly through YouTube videos and online courses. The problem with tutorials is that they're engineered to make you feel productive. You follow along, the code works, and you get the dopamine hit of seeing something run. But when the tutorial ends and you try to build something yourself, you realise you can't. I watched videos about building to-do apps, weather apps, CRUD apps. People kept saying that building apps like these wouldn't get you anywhere as a