I'm Jabir.
I'm 13. I've been running businesses since I was 11.
The first one was a dropshipping store called Jellaco. Shopify, TikTok Shop, a registered Virginia entity. I ran it about a year, and found out the hard way that Virginia wants sales-tax filings even in a year you make $0.
Then apps. I moved from Windows to a Mac and had HealthKit code running in Xcode within the month. That turned into Mora, an iOS wellness app. 17,000 lines, security-audited, priced. I never launched it. It's still sitting on my drive.
Then websites. I built 6 of them for local businesses that didn't have one, before anyone asked me to, then cold-pitched the owners. Voicemail, text, email, walking in. A barbershop said yes.
Last summer I interned at an AI startup and shipped a desktop app that signs into dealership systems as an outside party and answers questions with its sources attached. A week after it ended I won $2,500 at a hackathon, with an agent that reschedules a whole day of jobs when a technician calls in sick.
The money wasn't really the point. I want my own business. The win just proved I could get a raw idea to something that works, fast.
It all sits under EdgerDawnTec LLC now, and almost all of my time goes into AIDEN.
I don't write much of the code by hand. I direct models and read what comes back. Syntax isn't the part that matters. What I'm actually trying to learn is how the thing works underneath — how an API really talks to a client and a database, how auth works, why tests come before cleanup.
AIDEN
AIDEN is a private AI assistant that lives on your Mac. It catches the things about to fall through the cracks. A renewal about to charge. A deadline nobody repeated. Someone still waiting on a reply. Then it asks you before it does anything. Nothing gets sent without your approval.
It's in private beta. Four repositories, signed and notarised Mac builds, 434 passing tests. This month I scored it against a ground-truth set for the first time and it caught 42% of what it should have. I'd rather put that number here than leave it out. It's what the next version has to beat.
Most of it didn't work
I put about $200 into boosting a post. 75,000 views, 300 clicks, 4 signups. That's $37.50 a signup. That's where paid ads ended for me. For a while I called it MRR, and it was one $25 Stripe subscription in test mode.
I sent a survey to my whole waitlist. 35 emails, 2 replies. Those two replies killed the voice-first version of AIDEN, so I deleted 10,579 lines. Microphone, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, the whole notch interface. Two months of work in one pull request.
Nudge got shelved after a month because I started too big. YouTube pulled my livestreaming because the account listed a real age of 13. I sat at 20 followers on X for weeks no matter what I posted.
I write all of it down, every day. If AIDEN doesn't work I'll build something else. That part I'm sure about.
Right now
Sophomore year. Shipping AIDEN. Trying to get to my first paying user before the summer ends. By the end of the year I want 100 paying people across everything I've built.
Further out I want a company that actually scales, and an office I work out of.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Rising sophomore.
Elsewhere
I post what I'm building on Instagram and X, and the code is on GitHub. If you're building something, message me. I'll answer.