Adil Moujahid
AI Consultant & Founder of MakersHub
I'm starting a series of interviews with people who build things: developers, creators, tinkerers, anyone who likes turning ideas into reality. Rather than ask someone else to go first, I figured I should answer my own questions. It only seemed fair.
So here's the first MakersHub interview, with me.
Tell us who you are and what you're working on right now.
I'm Adil Moujahid. By day, I work as an AI consultant. In my free time, I'm building MakersHub.dev, a community platform for people who want to learn, share, and build with AI tools.
I've also been running a personal blog at adilmoujahid.com for over ten years, where I document the side projects I work on. MakersHub.dev is an extension of that same impulse: I like building things, and I like sharing what I learn along the way.
What's your first memory of building something? Could be code, a project, anything. What drew you in?
I was around 14 or 15 when I got my first computer. I bought a C programming book and spent hours trying to build the examples from it. I didn't fully understand what I was doing, but something about making the computer do what I told it to was addictive.
That curiosity led me to study computer science at university and eventually into a career in IT consulting, working with data, machine learning, and AI. But that first experience with the C book is still vivid. It's where it all started.
How has AI changed how you work or build things?
It's been transformative. AI has probably 10x'd my productivity. It's opened doors to programming languages and domains I'm not an expert in. And most importantly, it's let me build ideas I've had for years but never had time to execute.
Before, I'd have an idea and think "that would take me months to learn and build properly." Now, I don't feel those technical limitations anymore. If I can think it, I can build it.
What's something you're curious about or excited to explore next?
Mobile apps. I've wanted to build them for years. I started and stopped many times, always dropping off because of time constraints. Learning a new framework, navigating platform differences, managing app store requirements: it added up to more hours than I had.
Now with AI, it feels feasible. The walls that stopped me before don't feel as tall anymore. First on the list: a meditation app powered by AI.
What's one thing you wish you'd known earlier in your journey?
When I started learning to program, most of the education was focused on syntax: memorizing the rules of a specific language. What I wish I'd focused on earlier was thinking like an architect. How to design systems, how to structure applications, how to break down problems.
Now with AI handling so much of the syntax and repetitive work, that architectural thinking is more valuable than ever. The bottleneck isn't writing code anymore. It's knowing what to build and how to structure it.
What's one tool, resource, or community feature you wish existed?
Honestly, that's why I'm building MakersHub.
I've had side projects and been blogging for over a decade. I always wanted a place to share ideas with like-minded people, show what I'm building, and learn from others doing the same. Sites like Hacker News and Reddit are great, but they always felt incomplete to me, fragmented across different purposes.
I wanted one place to learn, build, promote, and discuss. That's what MakersHub is meant to be.
If that sounds like something you've been looking for, come join us at MakersHub.dev and be part of the community from the start.
Want to be featured in a future interview? Reach out. I'd love to hear what you're building.