10 months ago I turned my grief into a product on this subreddit and a stranger’s DM changed my life. Today I’m one small step from the finish line - and about to lose it all.

10 months ago, I was at the lowest point of my life. I’d just lost my dad to cancer. Months earlier I lost my job too - for missing one senseless Zoom meeting while I was caretaking. I was struggling just to survive. But in all of it, I still found the strength to do the one thing I do best: create. I designed Pandora - a smart lid that turns an ordinary jar into a self-sustaining little world. I built the 3D model in Blender, rendered an animation of it, put up a landing page, and post