Kourosh is a self-taught developer who is making $6k a month from his apps while working full-time. Keep reading to find out his tips for learning to code in 2025, how he learned programming and how he is making money while working a 9-5.
Can you tell us what you’ve achieved so far as an entrepreneur?
So far, I've built two startups. The first one is called MeetWaves.com, and it's a community analytics tool. The second one is called UseVoicy.com, a speech-to-text tool.
I started Waves during university, and it was the first product I ever built. In the beginning, we were creating micro-communities for students based on their interests. A user would fill out a short form, then we would match them to five or six other people in a WhatsApp group chat. We would close each group chat after three or four weeks.
That picked up really, really quickly. We grew to 1,000 users without any marketing within weeks. Then companies heard about this, and we received inbound requests from real companies asking us to build these micro-communities for them.
We told them that we had software to do this, which we really didn't, so we closed our first contract for about 2 pounds—just by essentially faking it—and started monetizing.
My YouTube channel, MyChannel, is about capturing subscription payments for it, and I started that in February of 2025. So far, we are nearly at $2,000 in MRR, and it's slowly growing.
How did you learn to code?
During COVID, I was extremely bored and I was looking for things to do. And I picked up this huge Python book just to learn how to write code.
Back then, I mostly wanted to learn coding to write trading algorithms because I was studying finance and that was really interesting to me.
So I picked up the Python book and I spent two, three months reading it.
At the same time, though, I was building the Waves platform, and even though it was mostly built in Bubble, a no-code tool, it still required us to write some real code every now and then when we wanted to do fancy stuff.
But I was still pretty much a novice back then.
The time when it truly took off for me was when ChatGPT originally came out. I wanted to use it a little bit for code, but it just wasn't good enough back then.
But I still wanted to code something real, so I decided to sign up for a Scrimba course.
And Scrimba (affiliate) is this platform that gives you an IDE within the browser, within the video course, and it was awesome.
So I learned the basics of HTML and CSS, and then JavaScript, and then React.
And that gives me a good enough foundation to actually write code and understand the code that I'm writing with AI.
On my TikTok account actually, the video that has the most views, around 150,000 now, is a video of me telling people exactly what I did to learn how to code well enough to be able to write code with AI effectively.
That basically means learn HTML, learn just the basics of HTML. Then, when it comes to CSS, continue the course until you learn Flexbox.
If you want to go really hard, learn until you learn Grid.
And when it comes to JavaScript, learn everything the course tells you until you finish Promises.
After Promises, I think you don't need the JS course anymore and you'll be in a good enough place to actually code with AI.
