Maximilian Schwarzmüller

Co-founder of Academind, bestselling coding instructor with 3.5M+ students

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About Maximilian Schwarzmüller

Maximilian Schwarzmüller is a self-taught developer and one of the best-selling online coding instructors in the world. Academind, the course business Schwarzmüller co-founded with Manuel Lorenz in 2017, says its courses have been chosen by more than 3.5 million paying students, and Schwarzmüller's Udemy courses on Angular, React, Vue, Node.js and related topics have long been among the platform's most popular.

Schwarzmüller started coding at age 13 and holds a master's degree in business administration rather than a computer science degree. The teaching covers web development, cloud infrastructure and, increasingly, AI-assisted development. Academind sells individual courses with lifetime access as well as an all-access membership, and the catalogue now includes practical guides to Claude Code, Codex, Pi, n8n, Bun, VPS hosting and AI concepts alongside classics like Angular - The Complete Guide.

Beyond Academind, Schwarzmüller runs a personal YouTube channel, writes articles and hosts the Code & Curiosity podcast with personal takes on programming and developer careers. In 2025 Schwarzmüller built Business Headshots AI, a paid AI headshot generator made with Next.js, better-auth, Polar and SQLite, and in 2026 announced AI Enhanced Dev, a two-week cohort on building real web apps with AI agents without producing sloppy code.

Products by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

Academind

academind.com

Coding and AI course platform with single-course licenses and an all-access membership.

AI Enhanced Dev

aienhanced.dev

Two-week cohort for building real web apps with AI agents while keeping code quality high.

Business Headshots AI

business-headshots.ai

AI service that generates professional business headshots from a single photo.

Builds indie alternatives to:Codecademy

Maximilian Schwarzmüller's journey, 2017–20264 milestones · self-reported

First product
Launch / milestone
Started 2017

2017First product: Co-founded Academind with Manuel Lorenz
2025Launch: Built and launched Business Headshots AI as a personal AI…
2026Launch: Announced the AI Enhanced Dev cohort and expanded Academind's…
2026Milestone: Academind reports more than 3.5 million paying students

Timeline

2017 — Co-founded Academind with Manuel Lorenz.
2025 — Built and launched Business Headshots AI as a personal AI SaaS project.
2026 — Announced the AI Enhanced Dev cohort and expanded Academind's catalogue around agentic coding tools.
2026 — Academind reports more than 3.5 million paying students.

How Maximilian builds

Combine modern AI tools with rock-solid fundamentals rather than replacing them.
Keep courses current with the technology developers use right now.
Use AI for specific, well-defined tasks instead of chasing agent hype.
Learn by building practical projects step by step.

Learn from Maximilian Schwarzmüller

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Academind All-Access Membership

Access to the full Academind catalogue, including all future courses.

by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

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AI Enhanced Dev

Two-week cohort on research, planning, standards and multi-agent workflows for AI-assisted web development.

by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

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Claude Code - The Practical Guide

Practical course on using Claude Code as a terminal coding agent.

by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

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n8n for AI Workflows and AI Agents

Building AI automations and agents with n8n.

by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

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Angular - The Complete Guide

Comprehensive Angular course with multiple real projects.

by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

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Udemy courses

Bestselling Udemy catalogue covering Angular, React, Vue, Node.js and more.

by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

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Code & Curiosity

Personal insights and opinions on programming and becoming a developer.

by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

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