I graduated from my master's around March/April 2023. Contrary to my bachelor's three years of darkness, during my master's I managed to work on countless projects with my friend Luca [link to come] under the umbrella term "Omnia". Still, the time I could dedicate to them was constrained by the many lectures, exams, internship, and thesis. Once I graduated, I finally decided to take a gap year to work full time on Omnia with Luca.

The deadline

We set ourselves an artificial deadline of 31 December 2023 to ensure some accountability over what we were doing. We had no expectation of turning Omnia into a startup — we were thinking a lot more about building "cool stuff" than a "great business" — but we set a meeting for the last day of 2023 to decide whether we would turn Omnia into a proper company or stop working on our projects and start looking for the next thing.

During most of 2023 we built (or tried to build) the infrastructure for Neom's cognitive city, and a bunch of infrastructure for the Internet Computer that the developer community had been requesting.