Jerome Badour
Founder and Lead Developer of W3ArenaI build and run live products: websites, web apps, Windows desktop apps, AI features and the servers behind them.
- 2018Started teaching myself to code
By building small things to see how they work: a calculator, tic-tac-toe, mock-up forums and many more.
- 2018 to 2025From small apps to full web apps
Each project a step bigger than the last, with Harvard's CS50 and online courses along the way: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, then Node.js and full-stack development.
- Before W3ArenaLocal clients in Turkey and Lebanon
Bug fixes and web apps for companies there, shipping and logistics firms among them, found locally rather than on Upwork.
- May 2026Founded W3Arena
An online gaming and community platform, built end to end and run on my own: website, forum, Windows app, shop, admin console and game servers.
- August 2026W3Arena's releases go public
Every release since is on its public changelog, written for the people who use it: 15+ since August.
- November 2026Distill goes live
An AI app where every point of a summary links to the sentences it came from. Its code and its admin demo are public.