built a rival to the world’s largest fanfiction platforms — alone, at 17, on a $5/mo droplet

co-authors: Obaid, Opus4.8 this post is an experiment in parallelizing the power of LLM research with telling my own story, something I've found surprisingly difficult to do. if this works (in terms of telling my story the way i want to), expect more the narrative outside blocks is all mine, and within all Opus 4.8 Prologue Since I was 7 years old, I’ve been an avid reader. When I look at how old…