Hi there 👋 I'm Matt

👨‍💻 About Me

🌍 From Warsaw 🇵🇱, now in London 🇬🇧.
🎓 Entrepreneurship & Innovation student at Brunel University.
💙 Passionate about startups, design, and lifting weights.
📚 I love philosophy and sometimes write essays for fun. Nietzsche is my intellectual crush 😍.
💻 Currently working on Homebrew College Club. It's my dissertation project for which I'm building an education platform powered by AI to see if it can outperform Harvard. Can't wait to post the final paper here when it's done.

🎨 Design: Figma
🌐 Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js
🐍 Backend: Python
📘 Currently learning: Scrimba's Frontend Developer Career Path
🌟 Want to learn soon: TypeScript, Next.js, and Python for AI
💾 Databases: Firebase, Supabase, and SQL
🛠 Tools: Git, GitHub, VSCode, (currently using zed and I love it), and I'm a psychofan of Notion.

👨‍💻 I started coding because nobody wanted to build my amazing startup ideas for me 😂.
📛 I'm Matt Bratos online because I've learned that Maciej Bratosiewicz is unpronounceable for English speakers 🤷‍♂️.

📅 Year: 2022-2023
🛠 Tech Stack: Figma, UX/UI Principles
🚀 Why: I couldn't stand using terrible university software from 20 years ago. To navigate our uni, we had to use 13 different apps, and every one of them was unusable. So, I decided to create one "Student Life OS". I took Google's UX/UI bootcamp, learned Figma, designed a prototype, and pitched it to my University management. They weren't interested and told me that I would never get this deal and shouldn't even try (their exact words), so I decided to build something next. But this whole experience made me realize how slow, lazy, and inefficient these giant institutions are, and how deeply they don't care about their users. That's why I decided to build Homebrew College Club, an open-source alternative to higher education.
🔗 Repo: https://github.com/mattbratos/umate

📅 Year: 2023-2024
🛠 Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js
🚀 Why: To show my progress from plain HTML and CSS to React and Next. It also keeps me motivated to build projects from Scrimba's frontend Path.
🔗 Repo: https://github.com/mattbratos/portfolio

📅 Year: 2023-2024
🛠 Tech Stack: NextJS
🚀 Why: Higher education is extremely overpriced, outdated, yet almost essential for succeeding in life (at one point, I was a 17-year-old high school dropout following Peter Thiel's advice, trying to build a startup, so I know life without formal education). I wrote a dissertation called "Can AI Teach Better Than Harvard?" and built a super simple, unscalable MVP for that, and it significantly outperformed Harvard in teaching basic Python concepts. You can see it and use it here: Now I'm building a scalable MVP 2.0 where users can add their own content. Launch soon! Hopefully before the YC summer batch deadline (22 April).
🔗 Repo: https://github.com/mattbratos/homebrew-college-club
🔗 Link: https://homebrew.so