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 and spent a year mostly in my room

bought a computer with scholarship money and started 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 code 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?
i want to keep building more hardware and real-world projects and eventually start a company