๐ด I'M BUILDING THIS OUT OF HATE! ๐ด
I'll be honest. I don't love education. I never have.
I grew up inside it, then started my career building more of it. I lasted long enough to learn how it really works, and I left swearing never again.
You know the shape of it. A syllabus older than the students. Forty kids taught like they're one kid. Nine hours of school, four of tuition, then a room full of us mugging up the same shit until we could repeat it on cue. It was never built to find smart people. It finds good memorisers.
Your Netflix knows you better than your school ever did.
And if you didn't fit it, you were told you were the problem. You weren't. The system was just bad at you.
I only know it can be different because of design.
In design, nobody asks where you studied. You open the portfolio. It either blows them away or it doesn't. The degree doesn't count. The work does. It's the fairest test I know, because it asks one honest question. Can you actually do the thing?
For years that was true for design and almost nothing else.
So that's what we're building
@zero_university for. Proof of work, for everyone. Not a grade. Not a profile you wrote about yourself. A real record of what you can actually do, and how you got good at it. Something you can't fake.
Picture what that unlocks. No take-home assignments. No seven rounds of interviews to slowly find out what your work already shows. You stop proving yourself from scratch in every room. You walk in already proven.
And we built Zero so we only win when you do.
Most schools treat students as customers, so they're built to chase more of them, not to make the ones they have any better. We flipped it. You're not who we sell to. You're what we build. So we'll never trade you a degree, a hostel, and a nice story about your life for four years and a fat bill.
Zero is free. And our beta users get a guaranteed interview, the one promise your college couldn't make you after all those years and all that money.
This is the first launch.
The thing I hated most turned out to be the thing I'm here to build. I'm writing this from a treadmill in Vietnam, and I haven't felt this alive in years.