I Joined Steemit in 2017 - Nine Years Later, I’m Back

It feels slightly strange writing on Steemit again.

I originally joined back in June 2017, during a very different time online.

Steemit was growing fast, cryptocurrency was getting more mainstream attention, and there was a real sense that blockchain-based social media might become a major part of the future.

I joined during that period, posted regularly for a while, earned a little from my content, connected with people, and like many others eventually drifted away.

A lot has happened since then.

Over the last few years, my life online has changed quite a bit.

I’m still an actor, but I’ve also become much more involved in building websites, mobile apps, mobile games and experimenting with AI-assisted development.

Recently I’ve been publishing Android apps and games, building projects under Webberdoo, experimenting with AI video, automation, app analytics, game design and generally seeing how far one person can go with the tools now available.

The biggest difference between 2017 and 2026 is probably AI.

Back then, if I wanted to build something, I had to learn almost every part of the process manually.

Now I can use AI as a development partner, design assistant, researcher, debugging tool and creative collaborator.
That doesn’t mean AI does everything for me.

Far from it.

I still have to decide what I want to build, test ideas, reject bad suggestions, fix problems, shape the design and make the final decisions.
But the speed at which ideas can now become real products is quite remarkable.

One recent example is a mobile word game I published called Word Voyage. (url: https://word.webberdoo.com)

It contains 2,500 word puzzles across 100 chapters and is now live on Google Play.

I’m also currently working on other games and tools, including a water-sort puzzle game called Color Pour, an app called AppPulse for monitoring app performance, and several other mobile projects.

I thought Steemit could actually be a good place to document that journey.

Rather than writing generic articles about AI or development, I want to share what I’m genuinely working on:

• building apps and games
• using AI during development
• publishing on Google Play
• lessons from projects that work and projects that fail
• acting and creative work
• technology
• crypto
• and occasionally Ghanaian and Asante history and culture

I’m not entirely sure what Steemit looks like in 2026 compared with the platform I remember from 2017.
That is part of the reason I’m coming back.

I’m interested to see who is still here, what has changed, what communities are active, and whether there is still room for people simply documenting what they are creating.

So consider this my reintroduction.

I’m Freddie Annobil.

Actor.

Developer.

Entrepreneur.

And increasingly, someone fascinated by what happens when creativity, technology and AI collide.

It’s good to be back.