Why I build.
Every app started with a moment of frustration. The fix shipped a few weekends later.
I wanted to actually learn Japanese, not collect streaks and crowns. So I built the app that teaches kana, kanji, vocabulary, and grammar with real lessons and real progress, not gimmicks. Solo, from scratch.
🌸 The fix → ship the real curriculum yourself.
Azan Pro was unusable: banner ads under prayer times, popups on Qibla. So I built Mizan: prayer, Qibla, full Qurʾān with memorization, Tasbih, Hadith, and a Spiritual Garden where worship grows trees from the Qurʾān. Native iOS. Zero dependencies. Nothing leaves your device.
🌙 The fix → ad-free, all on-device, built right.
Saving a YouTube clip meant either a $9/mo subscription or a sketchy site full of fake download buttons. So I wrapped yt-dlp in a PWA hosted on my own Mac, exposed via Cloudflare Tunnel with TOTP 2FA, with a vintage cassette UI because my downloads deserve better than a progress bar.
📼 The fix → host it yourself, make it beautiful.
Stripe for revenue, RevenueCat for subs, YouTube Studio for views, Instagram for followers, Notion for goals, a spreadsheet for expenses. So I built a single founder cockpit: live revenue, project budgets, social growth, AI agent that knows my numbers. One curated view of the entire operation.
💼 The fix → one pocket, every metric.