The Spark

It all started with an idea.

I had an app in my head — an idea that wouldn't let me go. So I did what everyone does when they want something they can't do themselves: I reached out to software companies. The quotes they sent back left me speechless. Sums I didn't have and couldn't have raised.

Then came the thought that changed everything: How hard would it be to learn it myself?

I sat down at my laptop, opened the browser and started researching. What do I even need to know? HTML. CSS. JavaScript. And probably more. That's when I came across an app called Mimo, and that's where it all began.

The first tags. The first page that opened in the browser and actually looked like what I had typed. I still remember exactly how it felt.

The Beginning of My Developer Journey

I've never had much discipline when it came to learning in my life. I always had to force myself. Always push through. It never really felt right.

This was different.

I didn't have to force myself to keep going — I had to force myself to stop. I got up at night to keep learning. Sometimes 12 hours straight, sometimes longer.

Mimo didn't just show me HTML and CSS. It gave me a first glimpse of React, of SQL, of concepts I barely understood back then but desperately wanted to. And in the end I earned my first certificates — for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SQL.

Professionally, they'll probably never help me. But I didn't care. To me they weren't certificates. They were trophies.

And something inside me knew: This is only the beginning.