About
I built my first website at 12, organized events for 3,000 people at 14, and founded Foxnice at 23 with just €300. More than a decade later, I'm still building businesses, creating products and investing in what's next.
Tech entrepreneur, developer and investor. Based in Girona, working from wherever life takes me.
I found the web in 2003 and disappeared into it. A year later I came across hundreds of hours of free programming courses by a guy called Jesús Conde. I never met him, but I watched almost all of them. By fourteen, a friend and I were organising paid events for more than 3,000 people. We didn’t call it a business. It was just something we wanted to make happen.
Years later, after UPC and a few jobs in Barcelona, Yeray and I put €150 each into Foxnice. There was no funding and not much of a plan. We built things for clients, got better at it, and kept going.
Today Foxnice pays for itself and for the part I enjoy most: building our own software. PagoCRM, Foxnice Booking and Foxnice Restaurant all came from the same place — problems we saw often enough that solving them one client at a time stopped making sense.
Outside software, I’ve made a few investments along the way, mostly in property. Nothing sophisticated. I tend to stick to things I understand.
Girona is home, but work has taken me from Barcelona to Morocco and, more recently, Thailand. These days I can run the company from pretty much anywhere with Wi-Fi.
I never wanted to build the biggest company. I wanted to build one that gave me the freedom to choose what comes next.
Writing
What I’ve learned the expensive way.
What I’m working on.
What's keeping me busy right now.
- Foxnice — the studio I co-founded with €300. Still no outside money.
- PagoCRM — getting paid, not managing pipelines.
- Foxnice Booking and Foxnice Restaurant — the same idea, for two industries we know well.
- Property — a few investments, nothing sophisticated.
- The newsletter — roughly monthly, when I have something real to say.
Where to find me.
Email is best. I answer most things, slowly.
- hola@metelidrissi.com
- X — @melidrissi
- GitHub — code and experiments
- LinkedIn — the client side of life
Still here?
Drop me a line. Roughly monthly, and only when it’s worth your time. Unsubscribe whenever — I won’t take it personally.