This website was created to shed light on the shady practices of Haiku Academy's founder, Murid Rahaal, to prevent future students and mentors to join this sham of a bootcamp based on lies and harrasment.

Our Team 1-person πŸ’©-show

Learn from a liar and narcissist of the industry.

Murid Rahhal

changed his name to Tony Russo in 2016 to sound more italian.

ex-CV · ex-web · AngelLoop · Devpost · Vator.tv · Selling fonts for $5

** All links updated since it seems that Murid went into a clean up, taking down links, covering his past, and trying to get this website down several times.

The director of Haiku Academy is the narcissist πŸ€‘ behind the program. He has no formation in teaching nor coding (he lied about his CS degree look here) and has not developed a real system in his life. He is a web designer.

Click here and here to see the source code of his web portal for proof. Then just open the dev tools. All code is there, no obfuscation nor minification. That code smells like a junior dev that barely codes πŸ’©, not the work of a professional software engineer.

Tony will tell you he started programming video games at the age of 13 and then show you 2 fake screenshots of what he supposedely did. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ (who keeps screenshots from the 90s?)

He claims he co-founded 3+ startups and was CEO of all of them. He omits most are 1-person companies. All of them are dead now and have been dissolved by compulsory strike-off:

He claims he sold his last one, Polydone, to Deloitte. There is no public record of that. The company is dead. Check it out. It just points to a crappy SEO generic site.

All his pictures of a "public speaker" come from Techstars '17, an accelerator and only pre-seed investor of Polydone.
Classic pitch-only "founder" attitude with no real value behind his companies.

FAQ πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ

Frequently Asked Questions. Just in case you don't know what FAQ means.

Careers

🀝 Does Haiku Academy provide career support?

NOPE. We will tell you that from the start of the bootcamp until one year after you graduate, you will have access to our career services. THIS IS BULLSHIT! πŸ’© ask any past students for more info.

During the bootcamp, we will give you condescending mock interviews of no-value and pretend like that's career support to get you ready for interviews. 🀣 🀑

🎯 Will I be able to find a job after graduation?

Another lie. We will say: if your career aspirations regarding salary and job position are in sync with the prevailing job market, it is possible to secure employment within approximately 3 months after. This is unrealistic but most likely what you want to hear. Getting the skills to be hirable requires MANY, MANY more hours and months of practice. Specially after only 7-weeks with no previous experience.

πŸ—ΊοΈ Can I become a digital nomad or work freelance after the bootcamp?

This is your wet dream right? We know it so that's why it is part of our marketing.

πŸ“† Can I realistically learn all the content in just 10 weeks?

Certainly, our content is basic crap.

But we won't tell you this is just the tip of the iceberg and there is MUCH MORE to learn.

πŸ’Ό Is Haiku Academy a recruitment agency?

No, just a cheap πŸ’© bootcamp. We won't really help you find a job either.

Payments and Refunds

🎁 What's included in the tuition?

Here's what you can expect to gain from the bootcamp:

  1. The most in-demand skills: Our curriculum is crap but you won't notice.
  2. Hands-on experience: You will make a shitty airbnb-clone. That's it.
  3. Personalized career support and development: I think we already talked about this. We won't help you.
  4. Lifetime access to our platform: lifetime here just means a couple of months until everyone forgets our πŸ’© portal exists. Oh, if you cross me we will kick you out and give you a FAKE certificate.

    So, be a good boy and give us a 5 star review or else...

  5. Extensive programming book collection: Crap you can find for free by googling.
  6. Intensive and immersive learning experience: Our bootcamp entails a rigorous schedule of 5 days per week, 8 hours per day, spanning a total of 10 weeks. Not really. It is basically 7 weeks 5hs a day if I don't fall asleep.

😲 Why is Haiku Academy so much cheaper than other bootcamp?

Because we have no team, only cheap ex-alumni. And we teach in third world countries to pay little taxes.

Our mentors don't hang around for long either. When I get bored I fire them and find other gullible new alumni to milk with empty promises.

🏑 Is accommodation included?

Nop. We are cheap but not a charity.

πŸ›« Are flights included?

Errr, no.

πŸ’³ Do you have any alternative financing options?

Come now, pay and regret later.

πŸ’° What's your refund policy?

NO REFUND AT ALL, we don't give a shit. No excuses. We already got your money sucker!

If I kick you out just because __blank__ · sorry not sorry! No money back. 😭

There is absolutely no protection for students! Read the fine print. Read this review.

Location and Travel

🌏 Where is the bootcamp located?

Tropical island blah blah

πŸ›‚ Do I need a visa?

Don't be lazy and google it.

✈ How do I reach the bootcamp?

By plane? Then taxi?

Format and Schedule

πŸ—“οΈ How long does the bootcamp last?

7 weeks. 5 days a week. 5hs a day. 175hs(ish) TOTAL (far from the 400 advertised).

⏰ What's the daily schedule?

During the pre-course phase, 1 call per week so you feel like you are doing something. If you can't, all good, you do you, we have your money.

Once you arrive in Koh Phangan for the 7-week in-person part, the schedule follows a Monday to Friday format from 10 am to 2 pm. Each day brings a diverse range of activities tailored to the topic at hand. After that we will show you the next cool place to party.

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« How many teachers and students?

We try 18 students because our marketing is not that good and we can roughly find 2 mentors. If more will come more money for us but you will still get 2 mentors.

πŸ“š Which technical skills will I learn?

The art of haiku, look at this review from switchup:

πŸ€– Will I learn Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence?

We say YES to anything that is trendy now. But you won't learn shit.

Applications and Admissions

πŸ’‘ Do I need any programming experience before I apply?

Better if you have none. The less you know the more you will believe our πŸ’©.

If you know a lot most likely we won't accept you.

🐣 Is there a minimum age?

If you are over 40 and barely know how to use a computer, great!.

⏳ How often do you run the bootcamp?

As long as students keep paying.

πŸŽ’ What happens after I apply?

We will tell you it is super hard to get in. It is not. We sound "exclusive" when we say so, but in reality we accept anyone with a wallet. πŸ’Έ

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