My Virtual Classroom

Ten years ago, I helped create a small reading marathon event for children.

At the time, we built a simple web-based reading tool alongside it.
After the event ended, the software quietly remained untouched for years.

But the files stayed.

Along with them, there were old notes, requests, and messages from parents and readers —
small voices about books they loved,
features they wished existed,
and moments they wanted to remember.

Recently, I opened those files again.

What began as an old unfinished project slowly became Occursus.

AI made it possible for me to rebuild far more than I could have imagined years ago.
We are currently testing a private beta with family and close friends,
with a beta release planned for July and a wider release planned for September.

But technology is not really the reason this project exists.

Occursus comes from a Latin word meaning “encounter” or “crossing paths.”

For me, reading has always been tied to memory.

There was a picture book I used to read to my child many years ago.
No matter how many times I read it, it made me cry.

Now, strangely, I cannot remember its title.

I only remember the feeling it left behind.

Perhaps Occursus began from that feeling —
wanting a place where books, memories, and small encounters could remain quietly connected.

I have always loved bookshelves and libraries.
Not only as places to store books,
but as spaces that hold traces of people and time.

That is why Occursus became a small library.

When my children were younger, I often wondered:
What should I read to them?
What books might stay with them for years?

I wished there had been a quiet place where people could share those discoveries privately,
not through algorithms or rankings,
but through trust and conversation.

Occursus is being built from those memories,
those questions,
and those encounters.

A small library,
still growing.