Mohd Sami Uddin

Building infra for Faith Tech | 10 years building startups | Co-founded Country Chicken Co

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Every Islamic app on your phone knows something about you. Where you stopped reading. Which prayers you missed. What you've been making dua for. None of them talk to each other.

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@Mahmoo Happy to test on iPhone and macOS. What problem is it solving that existing Islamic apps don't?

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@DhivehiMv MashaAllah. Quran apps in people's own language are still one of the real gaps. How many readers are using it so far?

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@AlMamunnnn That makes sense. No ads is a big reason people trust an app enough to share it. Did most of the 5,000 come from people sharing it with friends?

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What if success meant someone needed the app less over time, not more? What if we grew through masjids, families and friends instead of algorithms? How do you break the loop?

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You build something for positive change. Then everything you depend on to grow pulls you somewhere else. App stores reward downloads. Feeds reward attention. Ad networks reward clicks. None of them care what your users came for.

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So slowly we start playing by the algorithm's rules. More notifications. More streaks. More screen time. And the app we built to bring people closer to Allah ends up fighting for the same attention as everything else. That's the loop.

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@Muslimtechexpo Congratulations to the whole team on MTE 4.0. Watching Muslim tech events like this grow has been one of the good stories this year. Looking forward to 5.0.

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@safwanmalikkk @maktabook Spending two weeks on speed instead of new features is a builder decision I respect. Quran and Hadith search 87% quicker is the kind of thing people feel without knowing why.

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@Arf_22 Some of the best ideas I've heard came over chai in someone's living room, not in a booked meeting room.

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@Baby_Rizq @practicode_tech @Practicode_A @Muslimtechexpo Proximity is power. Love that you made the trip. What's the one conversation you'll remember?

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@Muslimtechexpo Underrated advice. The best replies I've had from busy founders came from three-line messages, never long ones.

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@Muslimtechexpo The part most Muslim builders skip. We spend months building and a week telling people. Trying to flip that this year.

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@AbubakarDija What do you like most about it? Always curious what makes someone stick with a hifz app when there are hundreds out there how much time has gone into building this?

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@Muslimtechexpo Rooms like this matter most for people building the right Sahaba and the right people with the same intention are super important to build long term.

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What would it look like to measure outcomes instead of installs? I'm still working that out. Tell me what you'd measure.

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Someone on my last post said we need to move from Islamic content to Islamic outcomes. I can't stop thinking about it.

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Then we count downloads as if that means something changed in someone's life. A million installs doesn't tell you whether one person prayed on time because of it.