From Zero to Everything: The Story of My First Project

This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge: Echoes of Experience It was an eCommerce project. My boss wanted to build a perfume store on WordPress and WooCommerce. Simple enough, right? Wrong. The only thing they provided me was a link to their competitor's website. No content. No product data. No titles. No descriptions. No prices. Nothing. Just a plain idea and the expectation that something would come out of it. And here is the thing. At that time, there was no AI. No ChatGPT to ask for help. No shortcuts. Just me, the internet, and the communities that existed on it. Oh, and one more thing. It was my very first job ever. An internship. And the pay? Zero. Obviously. The Beginning I could have quit right there. The work was clearly too much for one person, let alone a complete beginner with no senior to guide them. We did not have a senior. There was no one to ask. There was no one to tell me what to do next or how to do it. But I did not quit. Even if the pay was zero, the