Roadmap
Here is a brief timeline of my journey and milestones:
| Year | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 1994 | Hello world |
| 1997 | Got my first gaming console (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) |
| 1999 | Started playing with LEGO |
| 2001 | Got my first (prebuilt) computer (Intel Pentium 4, Willamette 180nm) |
| 2004 | Built various small tools utilizing Visual Basic |
| 2004 | Created my first website using HTML with Macromedia Dreamweaver |
| 2007 | Deployed my first private game server using Java |
| 2008 | Built my first custom computer (AMD Phenom X4 9600) |
| 2009 | Became the happiest kid on the block after installing M33 custom firmware on my PSP using Pandora’s battery method |
| 2010 | Started attending a vocational high school, majoring in informatics |
| 2010 | My first experience with GNU/Linux (Knoppix) |
| 2010 | Started developing several projects in diverse programming languages, either for recreational purposes or for financial gain |
| 2011 | My first experience with Android custom ROM scene (Sony Ericsson X10 Mini, CyanogenMod) |
| 2012 | Started studying in the dept. of automation engineering at ATEI of Thessaloniki |
| 2016 | Military service in Cyprus |
| 2017 | Started attending a vocational training institute, majoring in informatics |
| 2018 | Landed my first full-time web developer job position |
| 2019 | Co-launched a subscription based e-commerce support/marketplace platform |
| 2019 | Launched a web app that crawled famous Greek news websites, generated videos, and uploaded them to YouTube (robonews) |
| 2020 | Launched a subscription based, ad video creator web app (failed) |
| 2021 | Launched (as a side project) a private anonymous social network for my local area (losampeles.gr, failed) |
| 2021 | Created a custom app for my father, solving a problem that took him many hours per month (my most successful project) |
| 2021 | Started this blog |
| 2021 | Co-launched a hotel ordering platform |
| 2022 | Launched (as a side project) a cryptocurrency value calculator (coinvaluecalculator.com, failed) |
| 2023 | Created a new private game server based on l2jserver (l2gold.net) |
| 2023 | Began working on another side project (fstacked.com, currently stuck in side project hell) |
| 2025 | Started building a new client-side tool suite (utilio.app) |