← Jonáš Světlík
01 - ABOUT · THE ROAD · BUSINESS

Pilsen · 20 years old · self-taught

The way I learn is that I just try it.

Code, AI or a thirty-year-old Golf - when something grabs me, I find out everything about it and do not stop until it is finished.

Who I am

A builder, not a theorist.

I am 20, I am from Pilsen and I studied IT at technical college. I am now in my second year at the Faculty of Economics of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. But the things that matter I learned on my own - off the internet, with AI, or by trial and error. Behind me are ecommerce (including into the US), social media and flipping on marketplaces. No fortune, but a pile of real skills: algorithms, advertising, selling, foreign markets.

Then I started writing everything into Obsidian - a second brain of my own that an AI can see into. And it struck me: why does every company not have this? Why do they not have one central brain that remembers absolutely everything? That question became Robin - an internal AI assistant, and today one of the bigger projects in my portfolio.

An illustrated Jonáš giving a thumbs up
"I do not see it as a failure - I earned a little and learned a lot."
The road

A few stops.

EARLIER

Ecommerce, SMMA, reselling

My first attempts at an income of my own. They taught me how selling online, advertising and markets work - abroad included.

An illustrated Jonáš with a laptop among parcels - ecommerce and reselling
2025 - THE DESERT

14 days across Morocco with nothing but a backpack

From Agadir to Tangier. Minimum stuff, maximum adventure. The same appetite for discovery I feel with every new project.

An illustrated Jonáš with a backpack, a camera and a map above a Moroccan kasbah in the mountains at sunset
NOW - BUILDING

My own projects, full time

AI apps, websites and agents, for clients and for myself. Alongside that I take smaller projects and keep learning.

An illustrated Jonáš at a laptop surrounded by floating windows - code, an AI assistant, websites and workflows
SEPTEMBER 2026 - THE ROAD

A road trip across Europe in a Golf MK3

A five-thousand-crown car that my friends and I are fixing with YouTube tutorials and AI will carry us across Europe for four weeks in September. Not giving up - exactly like with code.

An illustrated Jonáš sitting on a blue Golf MK3 with its doors open in the mountains at sunset
Morocco

Fourteen days that set me off.

From Agadir to Tangier with nothing but a backpack. Souks, cliffs above the Atlantic, mint tea with a local family and the blue lanes of Chefchaouen. The same curiosity I bring to every project.

In the souk of a Moroccan medina
THE SOUK · BLENDING INTO THE CROWD
With a local by the ocean
YOU CAN GET BY WITH YOUR HANDS
Mint tea with a local family
MINT TEA WITH A LOCAL FAMILY
A view of the blue city of Chefchaouen
CHEFCHAOUEN · THE BLUE CITY
The tanneries in Fez
FEZ · CENTURIES-OLD TANNERIES
The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca
CASABLANCA · HASSAN II MOSQUE
Golf MK3

A five-thousand-crown car that made it all the way to Italy.

A blue 1995 Golf MK3. Bought for five thousand crowns, fixed up with Adam using YouTube and AI - trial, error, not giving up. The same approach I take to code. And it does 4 litres per 100 km.

So far we have driven it across Czechia and cut through the Austrian Alps to Slovenia and Italy - Bled, Trieste, sleeping in the car. The big European road trip comes in September: three to four weeks on the road. In a thirty-year-old car you see it differently than from a motorway.

The Golf MK3 below Karlštejn castle at dusk
KARLŠTEJN · AN EVENING STOP
The Golf MK3 at night at a Pink petrol station
REFUELLING AT NIGHT · 4 L/100 KM
The Golf MK3 in front of the baroque church Dom am Pyhrn in Spital am Pyhrn at night
DOM AM PYHRN · AUSTRIA
The Golf MK3 with its doors open on the forest track where we slept
SLEEPING IN THE CAR · THE FOREST
Lake Bled with its church under storm clouds
BLED · SLOVENIA
A square in Trieste in the evening light
TRIESTE · ITALY
Why I work for myself

I want autonomy. Over my time and my money.

I do not want to wait for someone to give me permission. I would rather build something of my own, take full responsibility for it and see what survives contact with reality.

Ownership

When something is wrong, I fix it. No excuses.

Build > talk

An idea without execution is worth nothing. I would rather try and see.

Self-taught

The internet, AI and the urge to crack it. I approach a car the same way I approach an app.

Health as the foundation

The gym, sleep, food. Everything else stands on those.

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