The First Website
A class 10 project on the Seven Wonders — the plain HTML page that got me into building things.
I'm a self-taught developer, and if I trace it back, all of this started with one file: a plain HTML page about the Seven Wonders of the World, built for a class 10 project in 2020.
There was no framework, no build step, not even CSS worth mentioning — just a handful of <div>s, a few images that didn't quite align, and text I'd typed out myself. It didn't need to be good. It needed to load. When it did, something clicked that a syllabus never managed to: I had made a thing, from nothing, and it worked.
I kept going after the project was graded and forgotten. No courses, no bootcamp — just documentation, broken code, and the same stubbornness that got that HTML page to render. By 2022 I was freelancing, building sites and full-stack MVPs for close to a dozen clients. Two internships followed — Bytework and DreamLegal — where I picked up the habit of shipping to someone else's deadline, not just my own curiosity. Somewhere in between, I finished a CS degree at GLA University. Today I'm a software engineer at NCR Atleos.
None of that was inevitable. It started because a website about ancient monuments needed a homepage, and I decided to make one myself.
If you're waiting for the right course, the right bootcamp, or the right moment to start — you don't need it. You need one small, unpolished project that's yours end to end. Mine was the Seven Wonders. Build yours.