hi
i’m mohammed benkhattab
24, from morocco
when i was 16 i realized i could become whatever i want, probably watched too many motivation videos lol
back then i was living in a small village near casablanca just me, a phone, and wifi stolen from the neighbors
2019
got my high school degree and went to study economics
didn’t really choose it, just followed what people around me said
dropped out after one semester, bought a computer with scholarship money and spent a year mostly in my room learning programming
fell in love with building things, made my first game and first website (mostly from youtube tutorials)
2021
joined 42 and left to live outside my hometown for the first time
met a lot of cool people and relearned coding from scratch
worked on robotics and won some national competitions
2024
did my first work experience and learned how real dev work looks like
it was cool, but i knew i didn’t want that life for the next 10 years
then things started moving
got my first freelance project and made money from what i love doing for the first time
a few months later i had clients from different countries
i knew what was next.
2025
bought a one-way ticket to china
2026
went to shenzhen, spent a month working on hardware, built a drone and met some very cool people
now?
working on software with people from around the world
helping them ship their projects
next?
i want to go deeper into hardware
build more real-world things
and eventually start a company