14YO IT Whiz Earns $17k Per Year From Software He Created

Self-made millionaires are many; self-made geniuses are fewer.

Or should I say, self-made genius millionaires?

Bill Gates was one. Steve Jobs was another.

Enter 14-year-old Muhammad Akmal Hazim, who isn’t your average Malaysian teenager.

At 13, he built his own software and used it to rake in an annual income of RM50,000 (~S$16,500) and 400 clients in only one year.

So exactly how genius is genius?

And what software is that?

Akmal’s Computer Genius

Akmal created Benchpoint.io, a website which provides remote speed test solutions and internet benchmarking systems.

Using his software’s web interface, clients can subject their servers to speed tests such as the number of visitors the servers can handle.

This enables his clients to predict with (near) unerring accuracy, their servers’ ability to handle massive traffic.

Which, by the way, is important. In the past, Goody Feed’s so poor that our server is so small, a sudden surge in traffic from, say, Facebook could crash our server. Now we’ve bigger servers so go ahead and come in daily to our app, thank you very much.

Now, back to Akmal.

He’s so good, the RunCloud Meetup has requested his presence on 27 October 2019.

RunCloud is a web server panel (SaaS): think of them as the “software” of the servers.

There’s just one little problem: technology is moving so fast, servers nowadays can automatically adjust its “size” based on traffic. Amazon’s AWS is one example.

Which could be why the young Malaysian computer genius is working on something else that will further reduce latency and increase internet speeds while avoiding downtime.

Cheem for us laymen. In essence, he’s speeding our lives up through our Internet-enabled devices.

Good job, kiddo. Wish you were my brother!