Nothing happened (except what matters).
Quiet progress, loud potential (2025. 07. 07. - 2025. 07. 13.)
The third week of my journey.
Honestly? It wasn’t that exciting.
Just showing up and stacking the bricks to build something truly big.
Hey!
I’m Zoli, a 16 y/o solopreneur working on a tech business from scratch. I’m documenting my journey, sharing the wins, the fails, and everything I learn.
What I’ve done this week
This week might’ve been the most important one yet. Not because something big happened (I didn’t join agencies, and didn’t have game-changing ideas), but because I made consistent, real progress.
Here’s everything:
Finished the Psychology of Money (took longer than expected, but I learned a LOT)
Finished another week of Figma learning (check out my progress here)
I wrote & published 2 posts here on Substack — and got my first subscriber!
Wrapped up market research for now, I have the basic idea of what I’m building
Finalized my dev stack — I know what tools I will use to build
Planned my summer learning sprint (more on this later)
And I helped NexFlow with some design work and lead outsourcing
I made true progress this week, and not just a small amount of it. Sadly, I forgot to do the big revision at the end of the week, but I’ll catch up with it this week.
My summer learning sprint
I’m really ambitious. I have big goals, but I won’t get far without serious knowledge in key areas that are vital for my future business’s success.
This is why I created the Summer Learning Sprint: a period of 5-6 weeks to build real, foundational skills.
Why now?
Because I’ve got time: no school, no distractions. It’s the perfect moment to go deep.
I’ll focus on 3 core areas:
Business ops – how to run a company, and think like an entrepreneur
Sales – I almost know nothing, so I’m starting from scratch
Programming – not just theory, but using the tools I’ll build with
And how will I learn all of this?
I’ll use a wide range of resources to get high-quality knowledge from multiple sources, both free and paid:
Online courses – I’ve got access to 2 paid platform’s courses on entrepreneurship
YouTube – probably the single best library of free knowledge
ChatGPT - quick answers to my questions, help with practical knowledge
If I can pull this off, by the time school starts, I’ll be ready to build and sell real products. This sprint is just the beginning, the foundation.
My plans for next week
Next week won’t be crazy either. But it’ll be focused, and (hopefully) I’ll be able to show similar progress to this week.
Here are my plans:
Finish the 3-week Figma sprint
Start the next book that I’ll read: The 4-Hour Workweek
Start my summer learning sprint
Do a complete rehaul of my Google Drive file system (not efficient anymore)
Trying to reach 5 subscribers on Substack
These are slower tasks that require a lot of time investment. These are the ones most skip, and I’m here to show that I’m not “most“.
A takeaway from this week
This week’s one is simple.
Progress isn’t always exciting.
But if you show up every day, growth compounds.
This is what I’m betting on.
See you in week 4
This week wasn’t loud, but it mattered — a LOT.
Let’s see if I can keep the streak alive next week!