Can a solo-builder contribute to Singapore’s national AI mission? I’m pursuing an AI Singapore apprenticeship to help transform our local talent into a global export.
I recently had a realization while watching Dispatches from Elsewhere: staying quiet is a form of selfishness. In the show, Fredwynn tells Peter that by not sharing his perspective, he’s withholding something valuable from the group. That hit home. For too long, I’ve been a quiet solo-builder, but as I pursue an apprenticeship with AI Singapore (AISG), I’ve realized that my mission, and the knowledge I gain, belongs to the community.
Singapore has no natural resources; we only have our people. I believe AI is our unique opportunity to transcend our physical limits and export local talent to the world. To get there, I’m attacking this from three angles: building real-world solutions, earning technical certifications, and finally, refusing to be 'selfish' by sharing every step of this journey in public.
First I will just solo-build, or team-build (I don't have many friends to start with actually), help my friends solve their issues, learning and building at the same time.
Secondly, I will build my credibility by getting certifications, skills and knowledge
And third, I will resolve to share more about my journey, because I recently realized that if I don't share, I'm being selfish with my knowledge. So ... I will share more, here on my blog, and also look out for upcoming videos on YouTube.
If I don't get the apprenticeship I will still keep building.
As a self-proclaimed 'financial illiterate,' I used Gemini 3 to build a Python dashboard that tracks the Rule of 40, Altman-Z, and other metrics to find high-growth companies.
I am no good with money and have never really invested in anything other than one piece of property in my life. But I was thinking, is there a way to identify high-growth companies and be able to predict their ability to stay as leaders and invest in them. What would be the benchmarks and metrics to measure their worth on?
So I wanted to try and create a dashboard, which will tell me at a glance a sort of a health-check, whether a particular company is doing well or not.
I chose Gemini 3's thinking model for this. Apparently it “solves complex problems”. But my problem isn't really complex, I just wanted a python script calling an API and visualization using Streamlit.
Here's my starting prompt
what are the key indicators of companies when evaluating their business growth potential and revenue model, and what kind of competitive analysis data should I collect to compare similar companies to separate the winners from the losers
What followed was about 2-3 hours of Gemini and I coding out a script which connects to yfinance to get real-time data, but now I heard that it isn't that reliable. Here's version 1 of the dashboard.
Project Specs:
Stack: Python, Streamlit, yfinance API
AI Collaborator: Gemini 3 (Thinking Model)
Build Time: 2 days (from concept to prototype)
Goal: Demystifying complex financial health checks for non-experts.
