Why I'm building in public from Sylhet

I’ve spent the last few years doing the kind of work that’s easy to hide. I registered a company at 25, built an education platform by myself to production standards, and then wound the business down when the market didn’t show up. None of it was public. It happened quietly, in private repos and a bank account only I ever looked at.

The hiding was the mistake. Not the failing.

What “building in public” actually means here

Not threads about morning routines. The specific, checkable version:

Work you can verify. Every project on this site links to something real, whether that’s a WordPress.org listing, a live tool or a repo. If I can’t point at it, I don’t claim it.

Post-mortems instead of highlight reels. The PRAGMACS chapter is written as a failure analysis, because a failure you can explain reads as seniority and a failure you hide is just an unexplained gap in your timeline.

Numbers instead of adjectives. No “passionate”, no “seasoned”. Installs, downloads and timelines can do the claiming.

Why Sylhet matters

The default story for an engineer here is get the degree, go abroad, disappear into someone else’s roadmap. I’m betting on a different one. Build commercial products from here, ship them to a global market, and let the work travel instead of me.

In practice that currently means ProductBay and CartBay, WooCommerce plugins I build end to end at WPAnchorBay and put on WordPress.org free, with a Pro edition for ProductBay. Plus a growing pile of AI automation experiments that haven’t earned a mention yet.

This site is where I’ll report on all of it. Honestly, and on a schedule.