Hannaan.

Joined the Minehut community. Like most people, I was just a player — spinning up throwaway servers, breaking things, and not really knowing what I was doing yet.

Got properly active. I started making servers for real — one after another, each a little more ambitious than the last. Some flopped quietly, some did alright, and every one of them taught me something about what makes people stay.

Went from making servers to running them. SoulzSteal, then SoulNetwork — building the plugins myself, running the Discords, and picking up the hosting side because nobody else was going to do it.

Started taking development beyond my own projects. I began doing commissioned development work for people across Minehut and other communities — building plugins, features, and systems to solve problems that people actually needed solved. It was the point where development stopped being something I did for my own servers and became a skill I could bring to other people's projects.

Came back to Minehut in a different capacity — this time as part of the community team. Going from being a player in the community to helping moderate it was a full-circle moment, and gave me a much broader understanding of large-scale communities and the people behind them.

Hosting eventually became the next step. I joined LiteByte and started working on the business side of hosting alongside the technical side — helping shape its direction, systems, partnerships, and the experience we give customers.

These days I'm Chief Marketing Officer at LiteByte and still a volunteer moderator at Minehut — the same community that got me into all of this in the first place. I'm still learning, still building, and still figuring out where this goes next.