Mastering Full Stack: Sandoche Adittane’s Take on Building from Zero to One

In the ever-evolving world of web development and design, few professionals embrace innovation as passionately as Sandoche Adittane. As a Full Stack Engineer, UI/UX Designer, and serial maker, Sandoche shares insights into his diverse career, web3 expertise, and the many projects he’s built—from productivity tools to blockchain-based applications. Learn more in his exclusive Website Planet interview below.

Can you please introduce yourself to our readers and share a few details about your professional journey?

Hey there, I am Sandoche Adittane, a Full Stack Engineer, UI/UX Designer, Continuous Learner, and Serial maker.

I started my professional journey as a Full stack engineer and UI/UX Designer at IBM, where I was in charge of designing and building an internal skill-sharing service that got more than 30k users.

After around 2 years there I had the opportunity to start a business with two of my friends, called Madarra. At first, it was about organizing conferences like the TEDxMarseille and building our own SaaS, but we ended up turning into a consulting company specialized in innovation and working with freelancers. During that time I worked as a freelancer myself as part of the agency.

At some point being tired of working on short missions and being really attracted by the web3 industry, I decided to jump on the train and work for web3 companies, and here I am now.

Aside from that, I spend a lot of time learning and building a lot of side projects, which is really my passion. I made more than 45 projects, a few of them successful and bringing revenue.

As a Fullstack Engineer, do you have specific areas you focus on more than others? What would you say is your main area of expertise?

I would say my big strength is to be really full stack: I can be a product manager, content architect, designer, software engineer, and a bit of DevOps. Which means that I can build a project from zero to one all by myself.

Nevertheless, because of those wide skills, I tend to usually focus on Frontend Engineering which is the intersection between design and engineering. As I mentioned before, I’ve been involved in web3 these last few years which makes it my main area of expertise, it’s quite a fun industry and still very experimental.

What are some projects that stand out in your portfolio?

I have a few projects that stand out and that are still actively maintained.

Let’s start with Llamao which is the last of the family, a private & offline ChatGPT alternative that runs on your phone.

Then I have my favorite: Kanbanote (www.kanbanote.com), which brings the kanban feature to Evernote. This is one of my first and oldest projects still up and running. Sadly there is a slow continuous decline in terms of growth due to the decline of Evernote.

Moreover, I have a few Telegram bots with quite a big user base such as ChatGPT on Telegram (chatgptontelegram.com) which brings ChatGPT anywhere on Telegram, and Telegram to Notion (telegramtonotion.com) which allows users to create Notion pages directly from Telegram. I also released a few other Telegram bots but not as successful: www.telegrambots.ai

In terms of crypto-related projects, I made CoinGenerator token (tokens.coingenerator.sh) a service to create your own cryptocurrencies without any crypto-related knowledge.

I have a few mobile apps and it’s worth mentioning TextBlast (textblast.learn.uno) an app to send personalized mass messages easily and Multiplication Kingdom (multiplicationkingdom.learn.uno) a mobile game to learn the time’s tables.

I do have other up-and-running and maintained projects: some open-source tools for developers, other apps, free resources for designers, and a bunch of experimental stuff. I invite you to check the full list on my website: sandoche.com

How much does your experience and involvement at Moneda help you in your independent work?

What we are building at Moneda, is an investment and banking type of app without using a bank and using blockchain infrastructure under the hood. This involves a lot of abstraction to make the technology, the blockchain & wallets, disappear, so the user can focus on what matters, getting money in, earning yields, and getting the money out.

At Moneda, I work with the rest of the team on building the mobile app and the backend to make everything work seamlessly. The team is quite incredible and I learn a lot from them.

There are different types of skills that I learned from working for Moneda: web3-related experience, which is something I really enjoy, and more traditional development experience which is always good and reusable anywhere.

So far I only have 2 blockchain-related projects up and running but surely I’ll come up with new projects in the near future. The reason why I don’t have so many is that the audience is quite small compared to web2. Onboarding users until now has been painful. But recent innovation in web3 is changing that and that’s why I am thinking about building more web3 / finance-related projects in the future.

Do you exclusively work on your own projects or can people hire you for a project?

I currently work at Moneda and use my spare time to work on my own projects. Therefore I am currently not available to be hired.

Is there anything else about your work that you’d like to share that we haven’t covered?

Actually yes, a lot of my projects and experiences were built around one thing: The learning lab (learn.uno). It started as a fun learning challenge where I was trying to learn about one topic every month. After 2 years I kinda slow down but I am still trying to find the right balance between building and learning. Also now with AI, it’s never been so easy to build projects super fast! So I guess I’ll keep doing both, learning and building.

To learn more about Sandoche’s work, you can visit www.sandoche.com