Anne-Laure Gros

Anne-Laure Gros

Freelance Full Stack Developer

The Hardest Part Is Starting… The Fun of Struggling Through a Personal Project

An authentic journey from hexagonal architecture to deployment — showing how building a product without mastering everything is exactly what makes it exciting.

Hesitating to dive into a personal project? Come smile (and learn) with my 100% authentic experience: from hexagonal architecture to deployment, product design, and testing, I’ll show you how I built a product from A to Z without mastering everything — and why that’s exactly what makes it exciting!

I will talk Kotlin (of course), Vue.js, GitLab CI, databases, reverse proxy, CORS, Scaleway Cloud, product “doughnut,” and a dash of AI — all sprinkled with mistakes, doubts, and imperfections. Spoiler: Production is still standing (well, for now).

The goal? To inspire you to take the leap, unafraid of detours. Because the best way to truly understand every part of a project is to experience it firsthand.


Développeuse full stack freelance (Java/Kotlin + Vue.js), curieuse, engagée et aussi formatrice en Discipline Positive.