I don’t think you can ever do that, especially going from 0-1. We have hard time understanding the requirement from the business owner already as human
IMO it is a little too late. You won’t be able to land an internship and your career path is tougher than the others. I would suggest doing freelance and see if this is something you want to do before fully committed.
iirc from the time I was working at EA online, UO doesn’t have any db. Their servers were just dumping all the data in a text file periodically and load them into the memory on start up.