2025 WRAPPED.
Projects built. Lessons earned. Levels unlocked.

This year I built and contributed to more than I honestly expected. Shipped real things, collaborated with solid people, and learned way more than I imagined.

Contributions
Contributed to The Audio Streaming Platform by Solo Codes
https://github.com/AnexDev1/The-Audio-Streaming-Platform

Contributed to NativeChat by Dagmawi Babi
https://github.com/AnexDev1/NativeChat

Contributed to Better Auth Flutter Client, initiated by @mr_naty
https://github.com/AnexDev1/Better-Auth-Flutter-Client

Products I Built
Built a Rent Management App for exploring properties and booking tours. Core UI and user flows are done, still evolving.

Built JMarket, a full e-commerce mobile app
https://github.com/AnexDev1/JMarket/tree/master

Built EchoLog, an AI-powered voice journaling app, now live on Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anexon.echolog

Built Noor, an Islamic mobile app
https://noor.anexon.tech

Built HasabAI Flutter SDK
https://github.com/AnexDev1/hasabai_flutter

Side Builds & Experiments
Created a Telegram bot for ranking and leaderboards of Telegram content creators
@etcreatorslb_bot

Built an Ethiopian Calendar App with full home widget support

Built Codecast, a podcast and tech talk audio collection app

Looking back, this year was proof.
Proof that consistency beats motivation.
Proof that shipping beats overthinking.
Proof that growth comes from doing, not planning forever.

Grateful for every lesson, every collaborator, every late night, and every bug that forced me to level up.
2025 showed me what I’m capable of.
2026 will demand even more.

Let me tell you a story about something thats mentioned in this podcast idk if you would believe me or not but its just i was shocked .....

Back in around 2012 Ethiopian Calendar, I was home running a tiny tech YouTube channel called Anexo Tech. I had 137 subscribers, all from those sub-for-sub groups where everyone fakes growth just to feel seen. No WiFi at home back then. I used this flash-drive-looking modem thing, CDMA or whatever it was called, where you insert a SIM card, recharge it with mobile cards, and pray the internet holds long enough to upload a video.

While uploads were crawling, I used to explore YouTube, and I was obsessed with Tech Talk with Solomon. I watched every single episode the moment it dropped. One day, while watching, I heard him mention 1888EC. I immediately searched it up. The site looked insanely clean and professional to me at the time. I explored every page slowly, like it was something from another world.

At the bottom, there was a contact section. I thought, why not try. At that time, I was already messing with HTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript on an ancient laptop that crashed more than it worked. I sent him a long, honest email saying I live in a rural area, I love technology, I’m learning web dev, and asking for help. Deep down, I was lowkey expecting money or a brand-new laptop, like a naive kid dreaming big.

Of course, no reply ever came. Years later, in one of Meripodcast YouTube videos, at minute 57:48 Link, he mentions a message sent from Jimma. That was me. Hearing that hit different. To this day, I wish I could meet him and tell him that, without even knowing it, he was part of the reason I kept going, and that I became exactly the kind of person his book was written for.