# Allan Jeremy > God Coder · Weirdpreneur · Future Billionaire. Personal site of Allan Jeremy, software engineer, entrepreneur, and writer. Articles on building, business, AI, the seven deadly sins of investing, and an Airbnb operator's playbook. ## Pages - [Home](https://allanjeremy.com/): hero, recent articles, and selected work. - [Blog](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/): full article archive (17 articles). - [Creations](https://allanjeremy.com/creations/): selected work across engineering, product, design, and business. - [About](https://allanjeremy.com/about/): who I am. - [Contact](https://allanjeremy.com/contact/): how to reach me. - [Tools](https://allanjeremy.com/tools/): small public tools. ## Articles - [How to start a small business – a step by step guide](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/how-to-start-a-small-business-a-step-by-step-guide/): A short, practical guide to starting a small business today, from finding a problem worth solving to building and selling your offer. - [How to start an Airbnb in Kenya](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/how-to-start-an-airbnb-in-kenya/): What it takes to start an Airbnb in Kenya, and how much a property can realistically earn per month. - [Building a Startup – Chapter 1: The Dream](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/building-a-startup-chapter-1-the-dream/): How being my own first customer, and wanting predictable cash flow for life's errands, sparked the idea for my startup. - [Wrath – 7 Deadly Sins](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/wrath/): Wrath is uncontrolled anger and the urge for revenge. How it clouds judgment and how businesses and investors get caught by it. - [Pride – 7 Deadly Sins](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/pride/): Pride is the strongest of the seven deadly sins, and businesses make money from our inflated egos. - [Sloth – 7 Deadly Sins](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/sloth/): Laziness is the default for most of us, and it explains why so few people do the hard things that lead to success. - [Lust – 7 Deadly Sins](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/lust/): Lust is the oldest vice in the book, and sex has always sold. How marketers use it and what it means for investors. - [Gluttony & Greed – 7 Deadly Sins](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/gluttony-and-greed/): Gluttony and greed are sins of desire: never being satisfied and always wanting more, and the businesses that monetize both. - [7 Deadly sins investing – Introduction](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/7-deadly-sins-investing/): Why the seven deadly sins are also a useful map of the mistakes investors keep making, and how businesses profit from them. - [Envy – 7 Deadly Sins](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/envy/): Envy, the vice of wanting what someone else has, and how businesses and social media feed on it. - [A Primer on Bitcoin for the Uninitiated](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/a-primer-on-bitcoin-for-the-uninitiated/): A plain-English introduction to Bitcoin for anyone who has heard the hype but never quite understood what it is. - [NetGraph – How to get a hold of anyone [Powered by AI]](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/netgraph/): An idea for a NetGraph, built on the six degrees of separation, to make it easier to reach anyone in the world. - [Reliability index and the age of human ranking](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/reliability-index/): An idea for a public reliability score, so you can tell how dependable a client or contractor is before you work together. - [A paperless solution – No more signing books to check in/out](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/paperless/): Why we still sign paper visitor books to enter buildings, and how a paperless system could fix the problems that come with them. - [Building an AI that detects actions and emotions in videos](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/building-an-action-emotion-detection-ai/): What I learned trying to build an AI that detects action and emotion in video for my Making it in Africa YouTube channel. - [5 typical ways to earn money online](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/5-typical-ways-to-earn-money-online/): Five realistic ways to earn money online, starting with why a YouTube channel takes far more time and discipline than most people expect. - [Genesis](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/genesis/): Why I put off starting this blog for so long, and why I'm finally writing. ## Creations - [ClipDog](https://clipdog.ai): An AI video toolkit at clipdog.ai. It cuts long videos into short clips, helps write and storyboard films, and runs its own transcription. - [ClipPod](https://pod.clipdog.ai): Record a call, get a finished podcast episode back. Guests just open a link. - [Rudia](https://rudia.co): Turns any seller into a subscription business, with M-Pesa built in from day one. - [Sensei Factory](https://senseifactory.com): A simple, cheap way for teachers to sell video courses, with card and M-Pesa payments and affiliate payouts. - [PlaySafe](https://playsafe.ai): An AI product at playsafe.ai. I lead engineering across model training, the React app and the Cloudflare infrastructure. - [Ace Interview](https://allanjeremy.com/creations/): An AI interview practice tool. You talk to an interviewer that adapts to your role and pushes harder as your answers improve. - [Airbnb - Superhost](https://www.airbnb.com/users/profile/1463146448897856507?previous_page_name=PdpHomeMarketplace): I run a short-stay business on Airbnb and I'm a Superhost, earned through five-star reviews, quick replies and a high bar for hospitality. - [CupidSong](https://allanjeremy.com/creations/): A service that makes custom AI love songs for couples, wired together with Airtable, Zapier, OpenAI, Suno and Stripe. - [Moneyfest Finance](https://allanjeremy.com/creations/): A Kenyan fintech startup that helps young, ambitious people understand, manage and automate their money. - [Abstract Wikipedia](https://www.wikifunctions.org/): Wikimedia's project to make Wikipedia language-independent, so knowledge can be shared across every human language without AI. - [Cloud Therapy](https://allanjeremy.com/creations/): A mental health platform where people can work through similar issues together, with licensed therapists when peer support isn't enough. - [Starter.dev & Framework.dev](https://starter.dev): A library of opinionated starter kits for Next.js, Nuxt, React, Vue, Svelte and SvelteKit, used across the open source community. - [This Dot - Content Manager](https://www.thisdot.co): I took the engineering blog from two weeks behind schedule to three months ahead, and it became the company's main source of leads. - [This Dot - Senior Software Engineer](https://www.thisdot.co): Two years as a senior engineer at This Dot, leading a Vue, Next and Nuxt team across client projects and open source. - [Roblox js-to-lua](https://allanjeremy.com/creations/): A JavaScript-to-Luau transpiler that brought web technologies into Roblox and helped fix over a million engine crashes a month. - [Sticky Thoughts](https://allanjeremy.com/creations/): An audio journal that lets you search your own recordings as text. - [Nanasi](https://allanjeremy.com/creations/): A social commerce platform where I was CTO. I led four engineers across three continents and secured a Microsoft Azure partnership. - [Textversation](https://allanjeremy.com/creations/): Anonymous chats between strangers that disappear after 24 hours. ## Tools - [Double Calculator](https://allanjeremy.com/tools/double-calculator/): How many doublings to reach your goal? - [Compound Interest](https://allanjeremy.com/tools/compound-interest/): What does your money become at R% over N years? - [Financial Freedom](https://allanjeremy.com/tools/financial-freedom/): How much do you need invested to retire on passive income? ## Feeds - [RSS](https://allanjeremy.com/rss.xml): article feed. - [Sitemap](https://allanjeremy.com/sitemap-index.xml): full URL list.