my story

I come from Benin; Paris is where I build. The first thing I ever shipped was a quiz app for teachers — 2020, first year of my DUT. I kept shipping through an engineering degree at ESIEE Paris, done in apprenticeship at Safran: three years of data tools for aerospace supply chains. I have never had a job that wasn't also school, or my own thing.

Somewhere between the protocol specs and the KPI dashboards, I stopped wanting to analyze other people's products and started wanting to make my own. In 2025 I went all in. My first startup, Wayzze, brought peer-to-peer car rentals to Benin. It failed. I made a video about it instead of pretending otherwise, wrote the plan for 2026, and kept shipping.

Kept shipping meant ten products in under two years — a territory-conquest running game, a food scanner, AI audiobooks, a detector for AI-generated media. Some grew. Some I killed. Each one taught me something about distribution I couldn't have learned another way.

My first hackathon says it all: seven hours to rebuild a product from scratch — then we missed the submission deadline, polishing the two-minute demo video. No regrets. We shipped; next time we ship faster. Along the way I joined my friend Achraf on BALLER, football AI, for a stretch — and fell down the agents rabbit hole: an assistant that lives in iMessage, a phone that drives itself.

Running is the thread through all of it. It's how I think, and twice now it's what I've built: KONQR made running a game; Laband makes it a crew. A friend made a one-minute film about all this. It says I build apps that make sense. That's the goal.