November has always had a strange energy to it. It’s the month that feels like both an ending and a beginning. The year is almost over, but it’s also the month where the mind finally slows down enough to see the year clearly. And this November, something inside me shifted, not loudly, but definitely.
I built my portfolio website.
It sounds simple, maybe even ordinary in the grand scheme of what I’ve built this year. But for me, this website was more than a domain with a few pages and projects. It was a mirror. A moment to collect myself, look at the journey I’ve taken in 2025, and say, this is who I am becoming.
For months, my work lived in scattered fragments. Tools hidden in GitHub. Ideas in Notion. Links spread across platforms. Projects pushed to users quietly. And even though I shipped consistently, nothing really sat under one roof. My digital footprint felt like an unorganized workshop: tools everywhere, dust, sketches, scribbles, and finished products sitting side by side with half-baked concepts.
So this month, I made the decision to build everything into one place: a home for my creative work and my entrepreneurial journey.
A place where my tools, products, social links, writing, videos, and thoughts finally come together as one story.
A central truth emerged while building it:
Your work only compounds when it is visible.
And visibility only compounds when it is organized.
My portfolio website is now that container. Not perfect. Not final. Not a grand launch with a press release. But something honest, functional, and evolving. I plan to update it quarterly, if not monthly, because the person I’m becoming doesn’t sit in one place for too long.
I’m learning.
Building.
Testing.
Documenting.
Becoming.
And a portfolio is the only way to show that in motion.
📦 A Year of Shipping — One Product Every Month
When I started 2025, I had no master plan to ship a product every single month. In fact, the first product NenoPress happened almost accidentally. I built it because I needed it. People liked it. Someone asked me, “So what’s next?” Then another asked. Then another. Before I knew it, I had built a rhythm.
And this rhythm saved me.
It kept me disciplined.
It kept me productive.
It kept me sane.
It forced me to create even when life felt heavy or uncertain.
So here is a recap, not just of the products I built, but the person each product helped me become.
🗓 January – NenoPress
NenoPress taught me speed.
NenoPress was born out of a pain point I had. Creating content consistently is hard, even for someone who loves writing. AI tools existed, but most felt too generic, too broad, too Westernized. So I built my own.
NenoPress became a simple but powerful content assistant, helping creators write smarter, faster, and cleaner.
It was my first win of the year. And because it worked, I found myself asking:
What if I built one thing every month?
What if I just kept going?
That question changed everything.
🗓 February – Namekon
Namekon taught me to build locally relevant tools.
African founders struggle when naming businesses. Names are either taken, lacking meaning, or too Western to represent the markets they serve. I built Namekon to fix that.
A name generator tailored to African culture, identity, and linguistic patterns.
It reminded me that our problems are valid problems.
We don’t always need to build “global” to matter.
Sometimes solving a local pain point creates more value than chasing a global trend.
🗓 March – Startup List Africa
This project taught me the power of curation.
Startup List Africa was more than a platform. It was documentation. It was mapping. It was giving visibility to an ecosystem that often gets overshadowed.
Startups, innovators, labs, accelerators, VCs, all in one place.
By building it, I became more connected to the African innovation landscape. And I discovered something simple but powerful:
Sometimes innovation isn’t about creating something new —
it’s about organizing what already exists.
🗓 April – InterviewPrep
April taught me empathy.
Job seekers are not just looking for questions, they are looking for confidence. InterviewPrep became a tool that helps people practice interview questions, but it also helped me understand the emotional journey of job hunting.
Rejections. Anxiety. Second chances.
Tools that reduce uncertainty matter.
I built InterviewPrep not as a developer, but as a mentor, brother, and friend to the many people who shared their struggles.
🗓 May – To Somewhere Logistics
May taught me complexity.
This was the month I dove into logistics: trucks, service seekers, dispatch needs, pricing, location data — all the pieces that hold modern supply chains together.
To Somewhere Logistics forced me to think bigger. It wasn’t a micro-tool like the earlier products. It was a marketplace. A system. Moving parts. Stakeholders. Risks. Real-world friction.
It stretched me.
It humbled me.
It reminded me that solving hard problems is still part of my identity.
🗓 June – Build Anyway
June taught me healing.
Build Anyway wasn’t a tool. It was a book. A reflection. A truth. It held my story: the falls, the failures, the comeback, the rebuilding of identity and discipline. Writing it reopened old wounds but also closed them properly.
It reminded me:
I am not my titles.
I am not my failures.
I am the person who stands back up — again and again.
🗓 July – Paystack WordPress Plugin
July taught me usefulness.
This tool was simple. Practical. Needed.
Sometimes the most impactful product is the least glamorous. The one that solves a small but persistent problem.
Payments matter.
Integration matters.
Simplicity matters.
I built something that people could actually use instantly. And that felt good.
🗓 August–September – Safezoner
These two months taught me patience.
Safezoner wasn’t easy to build. Privacy is technical, sensitive, and complicated. But I knew one thing, users deserve to feel safe. They deserve control. They deserve clarity.
These two months taught me to slow down. To build carefully. To question assumptions. To protect users more than I protect speed.
Safezoner is one of the products I’m most proud of.
🗓 October – Biztools
October taught me teaching.
Biztools became a learning tool for entrepreneurs, something I wish I had in my earlier startup years.
It made me realize that knowledge compounds only when it’s shared.
Experience becomes valuable only when it becomes accessible.
And entrepreneurship becomes lighter when people can learn without burning out.
Biztools was my way of giving back.
🌙 November — The Month of Reflection
Building my portfolio website forced me to pause and reflect. To see all these months side by side. To realize that 2025 wasn’t just a year of productivity, it was a year of transformation.
Some months were chaotic.
Others were peaceful.
Some ideas were born out of curiosity.
Others out of pain.
But they formed a story — one tool at a time.
And now, with only one month left in the year, I’m letting myself breathe.
I may build something for December or I may sit with my thoughts and decide what matters most.
🌿 Personal Growth — Beyond the Products
People often ask about the tools, but they don’t ask what the tools did to me. So let me say it here:
This year grew me.
This year softened me.
This year strengthened me.
1. Discipline
Consistency isn’t motivation.
It’s repetition.
It’s identity.
It’s refusing to negotiate with your goals.
Shipping monthly forced me to build even when I didn’t feel like it.
Even when I was tired.
Even when life was loud.
2. Health
I became more aware of my body.
More intentional about rest.
More observant of stress signals.
Shipping is meaningless if you’re not alive to enjoy the outcomes.
3. Family
This year, I became more present.
More grateful.
More grounded.
My family became the anchor that kept me steady when work got overwhelming. Their support, patience, and belief pushed me even when I doubted myself.
4. Spirituality
I reconnected with myself.
With silence.
With meaning.
Sometimes building is not about the product — it’s about the builder.
🙏 Thank You
I want to thank you — the person reading this — for sticking around. For replying to my updates. For challenging my ideas. For cheering me on. For giving feedback that made each product better.
Your presence made this journey lighter.
📩 Before We Close the Year…
If you haven’t already, I encourage you to subscribe to my email list. December’s update will be special — not because of the product I may or may not build, but because it will set the tone for 2026.
A year of deeper building.
A year of smarter decisions.
A year of becoming.
Thank you for walking this journey with me.
Thank you for believing in this crazy experiment of building monthly.
And thank you for reading this November update.
