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▲ 3 r/MuslimDevelopers

Are you creating a mascot for your app? How are you handling the design?

Hey everyone,

I've been thinking about adding a mascot to my app to give it a bit more personality and make the user experience feel warmer. However, considering the Islamic guidelines regarding the depiction of animate beings (taswir), standard cartoon characters or animals with distinct facial features are off the table.

I’m curious to know how other developers and designers in this community handle this.

  • Are you using a mascot or a character guide in your app?
  • If so, what creative workarounds did you go with? (e.g., completely faceless characters, abstract geometric shapes, giving personality to inanimate objects like robots/tech, or just sticking to minimalist micro-animations?)

Would love to hear your thoughts, see your approaches, or even look at some examples if you've launched something similar!

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u/mafia_bd — 5 hours ago
▲ 0 r/pdf

I got sick of uploading sensitive documents to random cloud servers just to merge or sign a PDF. So I built an offline-first utility suite with a massive free tier.

Hi,

I wanted to share a project I’ve spent the last several months building, born out of my own frustration with the modern state of PDF tools.

It seems like every basic operation—merging two pages, scanning a receipt, filling out an AcroForm, or converting a PDF to Markdown/CSV—now requires you to upload your files to someone else's server and agree to a monthly subscription. Doing this with highly confidential documents (like tax returns or contracts) always felt like a massive security risk to me.

I built DocuDone (for iOS and Android) to be a local-only powerhouse. Everything runs on-device, your files never leave your system, and it requires zero accounts or cloud uploads.

I made sure the core utilities are 100% free:

  • Document Scanner & OCR: Run edge-detection and text extraction completely on-device.
  • Full PDF Page Organizer: Drag-and-drop to reorder, rotate, delete, or insert pages.
  • Vector Signatures & Form Filling: Create and place signatures, and fill standard interactive PDF forms.
  • Offline Converters: PDF to TXT, CSV (retains table coordinates), Markdown, Image, and Office documents.
  • Merger, Compressor & Asset Extractor: Merge files, compress locally, or extract embedded fonts and images.
  • Custom Font Library: Upload your own .ttf/.otf files to overlay custom typography.

What about paid features? (Full Disclosure): I am the creator. To support development, I have a "Pro" tier (which is a one-time lifetime purchase—no recurring subscriptions). Pro includes advanced features like a local document diff engine (using LCS to highlight exact text differences page-by-page), security sanitizers (to wipe metadata/links before sharing), batch compression, and AI-powered document chat/summarization (via OpenRouter using a credits with ZDR policies model).

My goal was to build a tool that lets you get your basic document tasks done safely and locally for free, without renting your software.

If you have a chance to try it, I’d love to know: what other offline-first tools are missing from standard PDF viewers that I should add next?

u/mafia_bd — 21 days ago
▲ 8 r/MuslimDevelopers

Any suggestions on how to monetize an app with Halal Ads?

Hi everyone,

I am looking for advice on how to monetize my app using strictly Halal ad networks or Shariah-compliant methods.

I know a few generic "Muslim-friendly" advertising options exist, but I would love to hear from developers who have actual experience with this.

  • What Halal ad networks or platforms do you currently use and recommend?
  • If you use mainstream networks (like Google AdMob or Unity), how do you effectively filter out Haram categories?
  • Are there alternative monetization strategies (e.g., freemium, ethical sponsorships, one-time purchases) that have worked better for your projects?

Any advice, tools, or documentation you can share would be highly appreciated!

JazakAllahu Khairan.

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u/mafia_bd — 27 days ago
▲ 29 r/HowToMen+2 crossposts

Tired of $15/mo PDF apps, I built an offline alternative. Giving away 10 lifetime codes.

I was so frustrated downloading "free" PDF apps only to get hit with a paywall right when I tried to merge two documents or save a signature. It feels ridiculous to pay a monthly fee just to manage local files.

So I spent the last few months building DocuDone. It's a fast, offline-first PDF editor.

I made the everyday tools completely free. Merging, compressing, and scanning to PDF have zero limits and no hidden paywalls.

For the heavier features like on-device AI tagging, document comparison, and batch processing, it is just a single one-time purchase. I hate subscriptions, so I didn't add one.

Everything runs locally on your device, meaning your documents never touch a random cloud server.

I'm a solo developer just trying to build a tool that actually works without the bait-and-switch. I would really appreciate it if you could test it out and let me know what you think.

To get some initial feedback, I'm giving away 10 lifetime pro promo codes to the first 10 people who comment here.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.docudone.app

Let me know your honest feedback on the performance and UI in the comments.

u/mafia_bd — 21 days ago
▲ 21 r/BDDevs

Built a free app to practice for the BRTA Driving Exam

So if you've ever been to the BRTA office for your driving test, you probably saw someone outside selling those printed question sheets for like 20 taka. 6-7 pages, basically the whole question bank. I used to wonder why there wasn't just a proper app for this.

So I made one. You flip through questions like cards, tap to reveal the answer, and when you feel ready you can take a full mock exam — same format as the actual BRTA test. No ads anywhere. That's it.

Already on the Play Store and just crossed 1k downloads which honestly I didn't expect this fast. Feels good knowing people are actually using it before their exam.

It's open source if anyone wants to contribute or just take a look: https://github.com/abdulmominsakib/brta-driving-exam-prep

I got my license recently so the timing felt right to put this out. Hopefully saves someone from having to buy those papers outside the gate lol.

u/mafia_bd — 2 months ago
▲ 17 r/FlutterDev

A while back I got tired of apps with ADS sdk and bloat to talk to my local models, so I built LocalMind. It started as an Ollama and LMStudio frontend but the more interesting version is what it does now: run LLMs completely on-device using LiteRT-LM, Google's own SDK for on-device inference.

No server. No Ollama running on your desktop. The model runs on the phone itself.

It's been live on the Play Store for a bit and just crossed 2k installs, which honestly surprised me. Turns out people actually want this.

The Ollama/LMStudio/OpenRouter/OpenAI server support is still there too for people who want to run bigger models from their phone over LAN.

Repo: https://github.com/abdulmominsakib/localmind

I'm looking for contributors — there's a lot of low-hanging fruit (model management UX, iOS support, context window handling) and the codebase is small enough that you can get oriented quickly. If you've been wanting a real-world Flutter project to contribute to that isn't a todo app, this might be it.

Also curious if anyone else has shipped something with LiteRT-LM — I've had to figure out a lot of things the hard way and would love to compare notes.

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u/mafia_bd — 2 months ago