Phase 1 was mostly thinking.
Phase 2 is where things started getting real.
When you’re planning, everything looks clean.
In your head, the system makes sense. The flow works.
Nothing crashes. Nothing conflicts.
Then you actually start building.
And suddenly things don’t fit the way you expected.
Something small takes hours. Something you thought would be hard gets done in 20 minutes. No pattern, no logic.
I’ve been spending most of my time just figuring things out step by step.
Not big breakthroughs, just small progress every day.
One thing I’ve realised is this —
you don’t build in a straight line.
You build, then you go back and change something.
Then that change breaks something else.
Then you fix that and realise the first version was actually better.
It’s a loop.
Also, working solo on the code means every decision matters more.
There’s no “we’ll fix it later” or “someone else will handle it”.
If I mess up the structure now, I’ll pay for it later.
So a lot of time is going into keeping things simple.
Not perfect. Just simple enough to move forward.
We’re still not sharing anything about the project yet.
But yeah, it’s no longer just an idea. It’s actually turning into something.
Phase 2 deadline is coming up.
Let’s see how much we can get done before that.
Akash
Team VAARANASI
Guidewire DEVTrails 2026
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