AviationApr 29, 2026 · 7 min read

New Pilot Shop & Want To Be a Pilot: Niche Communities

I built an aviation e-commerce store and a pilot mentoring platform for tiny markets. Small communities with deep needs are more valuable than large, shallow ones.

AviationMar 19, 2026 · 8 min read

Building for 33 Aviation Authorities Taught Me Regulated AI

Most AI startups avoid regulated industries. Here is what a decade inside aviation, legal, and healthcare taught me about building AI that must be right.

AviationDec 22, 2025 · 6 min read

The Aviation Portfolio: How Five Products Serve One Industry

Inside the strategy behind building five complementary products for the aviation industry. Aviation Infinity, Avioyx, AvioSharing, New Pilot Shop, and Want To Be a Pilot.

AviationDec 17, 2025 · 5 min read

Avioyx: An Aviation OS for 33 Regulatory Frameworks

Pilots use a different app for every task. Avioyx combines flight planning, weather, logbooks, and scheduling into one OS for every major authority.

AviationJul 23, 2025 · 7 min read

The First iOS Electronic Flight Computer: Building Firsts

In 2008, I built one of the first electronic flight computers for iOS, a digital E6B. It taught me that being first matters less than being right.

AviationMar 20, 2025 · 7 min read

Avioyx: Designing a Flight Operations Platform

How I identified the gap in flight operations software and began designing Avioyx, a platform built for how modern flight schools actually operate.

AviationFeb 5, 2025 · 7 min read

How I Built Aviation Infinity: Flight School to 50K Students

A student pilot struggling with outdated materials across 33 authorities. So I built the first AI flight academy, now serving 50,000+ students globally.

AviationDec 18, 2023 · 7 min read

Aviation Infinity Hits 50K Students: The Full Story

Aviation Infinity just crossed 50,000 students. Here is the unfiltered story of how a side project became a real education platform.

AviationMay 18, 2023 · 7 min read

Adding AI to Aviation Infinity: Adaptive Learning Engines

Aviation Infinity was built to help pilots pass their exams. Adding AI-powered adaptive learning transformed it from a question bank into a personal flight instructor.

AviationDec 15, 2022 · 7 min read

AvioSharing: The Idea of Cost-Sharing for Pilots

How the idea for AvioSharing was born from a simple observation: flying is expensive, and pilots waste money flying alone when they could share costs.

AviationOct 20, 2022 · 7 min read

Aviation Infinity at 25,000 Students: Scaling an EdTech Product

What I learned scaling Aviation Infinity from a side project to a platform serving 25,000 student pilots, and the challenges that came with each milestone.

AviationFeb 17, 2022 · 6 min read

Aviation Post-COVID: How the Training Market Transformed

The aviation training industry emerged from COVID fundamentally changed. Here's what I saw from inside the market and how it shaped my products.

AviationDec 16, 2021 · 2 min read

Launching New Pilot Milano: E-Commerce for Aviation

New Pilot Milano is an aviation e-commerce store selling pilot uniforms and gear. Launching it alongside my digital products taught me how physical and digital products complement each other in a portfolio.

AviationDec 16, 2021 · 2 min read

Launching New Pilot Shop: E-Commerce for Aviation

New Pilot Shop sells pilot uniforms and gear. Launching physical products alongside digital ones taught me how they complement each other.

AviationNov 18, 2021 · 2 min read

Want To Be a Pilot: Building a Mentorship Platform

Want To Be a Pilot connects aspiring pilots with experienced aviators. Building it taught me mentorship products are supply-constrained and hard to scale.

AviationJul 22, 2021 · 2 min read

Aviation Infinity Hits 10K Users: What Drove the Growth

Aviation Infinity reached 10,000 student pilots. The growth was institutional: flight school partnerships, word-of-mouth, and content quality.

AviationNov 19, 2020 · 3 min read

Betting on Aviation's Recovery While Everyone Else Left

By late 2020, many aviation startups had shut down or pivoted. I doubled down because the pilot shortage was deferred, not gone.

AviationAug 20, 2020 · 3 min read

Launching an E-Commerce Store for Pilot Gear

New Pilot Shop started as an experiment: premium pilot uniforms, designed in Italy, sold online. Small markets with passionate customers can surprise you.

AviationMay 21, 2020 · 3 min read

Digital Learning in Aviation: Why Online Exam Prep Exploded

COVID forced aviation training online. Students discovered digital tools beat physical classrooms, and Aviation Infinity saw the shift firsthand.

AviationMar 30, 2020 · 3 min read

When Your Industry Shuts Down: Aviation During COVID

In March 2020, global aviation shut down overnight. Air traffic dropped 90%, flight schools closed, and my primary market evaporated.

AviationJan 23, 2020 · 3 min read

Aviation in 2020: Why I Was Bullish Before the World Changed

In January 2020, aviation was booming and pilot demand was at record highs. I was expanding Aviation Infinity aggressively. Then March happened.

AviationNov 21, 2019 · 4 min read

Building for Regulated Industries: Aviation Was My First Lesson

Aviation taught me that regulated industries need a different mindset. Compliance isn't a constraint to work around - it's a feature to build in.

AviationJun 20, 2019 · 4 min read

Creating 50,000 Aviation Exam Questions with AI

Aviation Infinity needed thousands of exam questions across fourteen subjects. Here's how I built AI-assisted question generation with expert review.

AviationMar 18, 2019 · 6 min read

The Idea Behind Aviation Infinity: Fixing Pilot Exam Prep

Pilot exam prep was broken - outdated PDFs, no adaptive learning, no mobile. Aviation Infinity was my answer, built by a pilot who suffered through it.

AviationOct 12, 2017 · 7 min read

When Aviation Meets Technology: Digitizing an Analog Industry

Aviation is technologically advanced in the sky and completely analog on the ground. That gap is where I build products.

AviationMar 20, 2017 · 7 min read

What Flight Training in Italy Taught Me About Building Products

Flight training is expensive, slow, and unforgiving. The discipline of learning to fly in Italy taught me how to build products under real constraints.

AviationFeb 15, 2017 · 6 min read

From Aviation to Startups: Why a Pilot Started Building Software

I spent years training to fly airplanes, then started building software. The skills that make a good pilot also make a good product builder.