Bereket is a 12-year-old developer based in Toronto, Canada. He is on a mission to make the world better through software.
He is sharing his journey as a young maker on Twitter.
He started to code on July 16th, 2020. He’s also shared his work process at How I manage launching successfulproducts almost everyday.
He received a $1000 CAD grant from Udara Jay.
Projects
Colourtopia
Colourtopia is a website to help users explore and generate beautiful color schemes.
He launched the project on February 14
Hidden Tools
Hidden Tools is a collection of hand curated tools + resources that let you get more done with less time and effort.
It was #4 Product Of The Day on Product Hunt.
He reached 50 subscribers to the newsletter on Feb 11. He sent his first newsletter out the next day to 100 subscribers.
He also shared an image of the site users for February 12.
Lunar Theme
Lunar Theme is minimal dark theme for VSCode.
It was his first launch.
He regularly updated his followers on download numbers:
- Lunar Theme reached 2.1k installs on January 20
- 2.6k installs on January 30
- 2.9k installs on February 14
- 3.3k installs on March 10
Gizmo
Gizmo is a multipurpose Discord + Slack bot created for communities and companies to make them better. Takes care of almost everything from custom commands, to games, to gifs/jokes, and more.
He launched the project on February 9. He posted about it on Product Hunt and Indie Hackers.
Color Spark
Color Spark is a Figma Community plugin. It is an open source color scheme library.
He launched it on February 6, 2021. Within two days, it had 166 installs.
Meme Dealer
Meme Dealer is a tool to generate and create memes.
One day after launch, he had 12’222 new users and over 15k page views. The next day, he had 15k users. It was also #5 Product Of The Day on Product Hunt.
Convert Today
Convert Today is a mini experiment. It allows users to convert images to different file types and add effects to images.
Bored.lol
Bored.lol allows you to generate ideas for things to do when your bored
Code Homie
Code Homie was a twitter account that allowed followers to learn different coding languages. He sent out 5-10 times a day with varying levels of difficulting.
He launched the account on January 21. He decided to discontinue it on the 26th.
Learn coding languages of all sorts here on Twitter, tweets around 5-10 times a day and difficulties range from all sorts.
He attributed his increase in followers to consistency.
Monthly Statistics
Impressions
- By Feb 24, he had 400k impressions for the month
- He crossed 1 million twitter impressions for March by March 8.
- He got 600k impressions on March 9.
Threads
- How to get your followers to engage and how to get people to follow you.
- How to build an audience on Twitter
- How to stand out when launching on Product Hunt
- Mega thread on SEO tips and tricks
Features
Ask Me Anything
I’m a 12 year old and have released projects with over 100k active users, AMA!