i’m 18, dropped out of high school, grew my business to $50+/mo, and paid off years of my family’s debt.
here’s my story:
at 10, i taught myself to code by writing gta san andreas lua scripts and learned english from minecraft videos. growing up in a small town in türkiye, if i wanted to learn something, i had to figure it out myself.
at 14, i started building products. study apps, design tools, social apps. they all failed, but i never really cared. i was just happy i was building something.
at 16, i became obsessed with startups and started posting my work on x. after 3 months, i had 100 followers and basically nothing to show for it.
then one of my posts somehow reached the founder of
@simdotai, one of the fastest-growing yc startups. he gave a 16-year-old kid from türkiye a chance, and that changed everything.
i spent the next 3 months rebranding sim and meeting some of the most ambitious people i’d ever met. but eventually, i wanted to build something of my own.
at 17, i left sim, started
@arcstudio, and dropped out of high school to go all in and pay off my family’s debt.
for the first 3 months, we had zero customers.
today, arc does $50k+/mo, works with some of the most ambitious founders in the world, and i’ve fully paid off my family’s debt.
i just turned 18, and i have no idea what the future holds.
but if the last few years taught me anything, it’s that the biggest opportunities usually come right after the hardest moments.
grateful to everyone who took a chance on me.
we’re just getting started.
i’m an 18 year old high school dropout making $50k+ a month
ask me anything