hola :)
my name's yamil. i'm 23 and i'm the founder of hackerhouse.
a year ago, i signed a lease on a dying frat house with all my student savings.
i didn't know if it would work.
but i knew this had to exist.
if you're reading this, you might be wondering how all this happened. it's not a clean story, let me tell you. but this is how i got here.
i'm an international kid from peru and for most of my life i did only two things — play basketball for my country, and start businesses.
at 14, i started selling basketball shoes online and grew it to $150k/year, 6 employees, and sales in 4 different countries.
with that passion i landed at georgia tech. i was finally in the us and wanted to build something great. so i started learning how to code in my dorm and got obsessed with it.
over four years i built more than 10 apps. i fell in love with the fact that i could just... make things. out of nothing.
but during all that time, i felt pretty lonely.
it took me a long time to find my people. i sent random dms, went to almost every club, and even made it a routine to sit at random tables in the dining hall to meet a new person every day.
i needed to find people actually building. actually obsessed with something. because around them, the craziest things feel possible.
in my last semester i wanted to live with these people. so i found a house. put my savings on the line. and signed the lease.
then i posted a video about it on instagram and boom.
it went viral overnight.
200+ ppl applied in just a few days.
now, we made a community of amazing people.
i'm writing this because somewhere out there is a 17-year-old version of me. insecure about his english. nervous about not fitting in. wondering if the weird path he wants to take is actually going to work.
i wanna tell him: the people are out there. you're not alone in this.
and you don't need to have it all figured out to start.
i don't have it all figured out either. but i'm happier than i've ever been.
if any of this sounds like you — apply.
i built this for you.
yamil