Jan 2026/Fullstack/professional
Aksa
I jumped into building Aksa because of my co-founder. He's exactly the kind of person Steve Jobs described as 'the crazy ones'. He's a top student, a Hafiz, and absolutely obsessed with the startup game. His raw drive and refusal to accept the status quo rubbed off on me. We both felt that online learning was fundamentally broken and lonely, so we teamed up to change it. We wanted to build a space where people could actually learn and grow together.
As the technical co-founder, my job was to turn our wild whiteboard ideas into actual functional code. I built the entire web platform from the ground up. Our journey was filled with routine founder syncs, intense weekly team meetings, and honestly, arguing with each other about ninety percent of the time.
But as we grew, we hit a major realization. The real heartbeat of Aksa wasn't just a static course catalog; it was the network itself. We were essentially building a niche social media platform, and we knew the true power of social media belongs on your phone. So I pivoted our technical roadmap. I threw myself into building our mobile applications for both Android and iOS, making sure our users could connect and interact naturally on the go.
The game was brutal at first. We got rejected by a long list of funding sources and investors. But we treated every single 'no' as a data point to iterate our product. Our persistence finally paid off when we secured the P2MW national entrepreneurship grant from the Ministry.
Beyond the funding and growing the platform to hundreds of active users, the real impact was how this journey rewired my brain. Scaling a platform from web to mobile forced me to deeply study the playbooks of great builders and founders. We successfully changed each other, and I learned what it truly takes to stay in the ring and build something out of nothing.