Gomycode

GOMYCODE is a for-profit educational technology company headquartered in Tunis, Tunisia, that trains individuals in coding, artificial intelligence and other digital skills. It operates a hybrid model combining an online learning platform with physical campuses (referred to as hackerspaces), where students receive instructor-led, hands-on support. The company's own site states it operates more than 35 physical campuses across eight countries and has trained over 50,000 students since 2018; country-specific programs, pricing and languages are offered for Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Kenya and Saudi Arabia, in French, English and Arabic.

The curriculum spans dozens of tracks and program lengths, including web and software development, front-end development with React, DevOps, data analytics and data science, cybersecurity, UX/UI and graphic design, digital marketing, e-commerce, video editing, generative AI and deep learning, plus a Junior Tech Academy for younger learners. Alongside the core bootcamps, GOMYCODE runs a certifications business preparing students for third-party industry credentials (for example CEH, ISTQB, Professional Scrum Master, Microsoft PL-300, NVIDIA and Adobe certifications), a corporate arm (GOMYCODE for Business) selling AI training tracks for executives, entrepreneurs and technical teams, and the GOMYCODE School of Technology, which offers a 100% online, 15-month, 90-ECTS MSc in Software Engineering as a member college of Woolf, recognized by the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority at MQF/EQF Level 7. Earlier product descriptions also cite an e-learning SaaS platform called ADA.

Founding story

Founder Yahya Bouhlel began coding as a teenager and interned at companies in Palo Alto, California, working on apps and iPhone games. Returning to Tunis, he encountered students who wanted to build similar products, while his older brother Amine Bouhlel — who had studied in France and worked for Amazon in London before returning to Tunisia to open a subsidiary for a French open-source tech startup — struggled to hire enough web developers locally. In the summer of 2017 the brothers launched GOMYCODE as a summer coding camp and school modeled on a Silicon Valley ethos, growing it over that year. Yahya Bouhlel serves as CEO and Amine Bouhlel as chief operating officer; Amine had previously been CCO of Jumia Tunisia from 2018 to 2020.

Business model

GOMYCODE sells paid training programs directly to individual learners, priced and localized by country, delivered through a blend of online coursework and in-person sessions at its campuses. It complements this with a business-to-business offering that trains corporate teams, a certification-preparation storefront, and an accredited online master's degree through its School of Technology. Job placement support and a partner-organization network are positioned as part of the learner value proposition.

Revenue comes primarily from course tuition paid by students. As reported in 2022, introductory skills-driven courses ran up to three months at an average price of about $250, while career-driven programs lasted five months at an average of about $750. Business clients using a study-now-pay-later arrangement for their employees accounted for roughly 10% of revenues at that time. Additional revenue lines include paid industry certification packages and the fee-based online MSc program.

Traction

Growth from 100 students in the first year to about 4,000 active students and over 1,000 monthly enrollments across 30 courses as of mid-2022, when roughly 55% of students were in Tunisia. The African Development Bank reported over 30,000 students trained and revenues rising from a few thousand dollars in 2017 to $4 million in 2023. Company properties currently cite over 50,000 students, more than 35 campuses (with 40 in-person hackerspaces referenced by the School of Technology), 100+ partner organizations, 40,000+ learners in seven countries for the business unit, a 90% certification success rate and 70% of learners making a career shift. In 2022 the company claimed an 80% student placement rate and over 500 local teachers.

Latest developments

The company has moved beyond bootcamps into accredited higher education and enterprise AI training: the GOMYCODE School of Technology offers a fully online 15-month MSc in Software Engineering as a Woolf member college, and GOMYCODE for Business markets AI tracks for executives, entrepreneurs and developers, including NVIDIA-certified GenAI/LLM and deep learning programs. Public-facing positioning now centers on AI and digital skills across eight countries in Africa and the Middle East.