r/MuslimDevelopers

Salam everyone,

I'm looking for 12 Android testers to help me push my app from closed testing to production on the Play Store. Google requires 12 testers opted in for 14 consecutive days, so consistency matters more than heavy usage.

What the app is:

Green Grass is a verified Muslim community app. Verification badges(gold for imams/masjids, green for masjid verified members, silver for family of green badges) keep the community accountable.

What I need from you

- Android phone, signed in to Google Play

- Opt in to the closed test and keep the app installed for 14 days

- Open it now and then for all 14 days, even just a few seconds counts toward Google's 14 day rule

- Feedback is welcome but not required

- Happy to return the favor and test your app, drop the link in a comment.

How to join

1. Reply or DM with your Gmail (the one tied to your Play Store account)

2. I'll add you to the tester list

3. I'll send you the app link

Thanks in advance.

https://www.amanolabs.com/

Amano Labs just posted a video yesterday about their $20 hearing aid, and it blew my mind.

The company is building an ultra-low-cost hearing device inspired by the mechanics of the human ear. Traditional hearing aids can cost thousands, often because the product is tied to expensive electronics, clinical fitting, insurance complexity, and legacy distribution. Amano is trying to pull that cost down dramatically with a custom-fit, 3D-printed device focused on mechanical sound amplification.

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The product itself is interesting because it takes the opposite approach of most hearing tech. Instead of starting with microphones, processors, Bluetooth, batteries, and speakers, Amano starts with the ear’s own mechanical design. Their device is described as an ultra-low-cost, 3D-printed sound amplification device, with acoustic tuning around speech frequencies, a machine-learning sizing process to better match the geometry of the user’s ear, and output limits meant to avoid unsafe over-amplification. The bet is that for many people who need basic hearing support, especially as a bridge before full clinical care, a simpler custom-fit acoustic device could solve enough of the problem at a radically lower cost.

Arish & Ramin

What makes Amano more compelling is the team behind it: young technical founders with real urgency, real taste, and a clear obsession with making hearing care accessible.

Arish Shahab is a McMaster iBioMed student who previously won the healthcare category at HackPrinceton for Synovia, an AI surgical planning tool that acted like a “flight simulator for brain surgery.” That alone tells you he’s been thinking at the intersection of healthcare, engineering, and software before Amano.

Ramin Syed came through mechanical engineering at McMaster and originally thought he’d work on cars. Now he’s in San Francisco helping build Amano’s purely mechanical hearing device, with the team testing multiple iterations and preparing pilot deployments.

The third cofounder, Aaron Yu, has been helping push the clinical side forward, framing Amano as a bridge to hearing care for underserved patients through low-cost, 3D-printed sound amplification devices.

The problem is massive as well. WHO estimates nearly 2.5 billion people could have some degree of hearing loss by 2050. In the U.S. alone, tens of millions of adults report hearing loss, but only a fraction of the people who could benefit from hearing aids actually use them.

Amano is still early, and because this touches hearing care, thier validation and success will come from pilots, clinical feedback, safety, outcomes, and regulatory clarity.

But as builders, they're doing everything right: take a massive access problem, strip out unnecessary cost, and build something useful for the people the current system leaves behind.

You can preorder the device on their website for $20. I myself just preordered one for a loved one.

Weekly Muslim Developers Check-in!

Assalamalaikum Everyone!

📍 What did you build this week?
📍 What are you currently learning?
📍 Any blockers you need help with?

Let’s support each other and grow together for the sake of Allah.

💡 Bonus: Share something beneficial you learned (tech or deen)

بارك الله فيكم 🤍

Salam guys,

The Islamic app market is currently oversaturated with hundreds of redundant options especially for "prayer times and Quran reading". I’m hesitant to develop a new project because most ideas have already been implemented with extensive feature sets. I want to avoid creating just another "me-too" app that offers nothing more than a slight UI change or a couple of minor tweaks. It seems the community keeps building the same tools over and over, and I want to find a way to offer something unique. And as we see here people still creating same old apps

Does anyone have suggestions for a specific niche or an untapped idea within the Muslim tech space that actually solves a new problem?

I see most of Muslim developers make Quran apps, hadees apps which is good but we need to think more broaden.

We need our own hosting providors.

We need our own Fiverr/ Upwork alternative.

We need our own Amazon alternative.

We need our AI like chatgpt, Claude.

We need our own online payment providors like stripe, polar, lemon squeezy.

We need interest-free banking system.

There is a very long list I can share. We as a Muslim totally depends on west platforms. Start from small. But start.

Guys, we need to talk about the state of Islamic apps.

I've been on this sub for a while and I keep seeing the same post every few months. "I built an Islamic app, please give feedback." I click it. It's one of these:

- A Quran app (there are 47 of these)

- An AI chatbot that answers Islamic questions using ChatGPT

- A prayer time app

- Some combination of the above

I saw a post last week where someone built an app to text Quran verses anonymously to strangers. Anonymously. To strangers. So I can feel like a stranger when I'm reading the words of Allah? Why?

I saw another one — an AI Islamic chatbot. Bro, I can open ChatGPT right now and ask it anything about Islam. You wrapped it in green and added a crescent moon. That's not a product.

Stop asking "what Islamic feature can I add to a chatbot" and start asking "what is the most painful unsolved problem in the Muslim community right now."

Build that.

As part of my "DeGoogling" journey, I can see that the amount of data that tech giants such as Google own is staggering.

At the same time I understand just how difficult and challenging it is to "DeGoogle". Of course it's possible to do, however it's not easy for the vast majority of "mainstream" users.

I can see that pure Linux phones while ultra niche do provide potential, however they lack applications and essentially the fully integrated cohesive experience that the phones from the tech giants provide.

My idea was a "ground up" unified platform that would be pre-installed on a custom NAS box (the private server), the idea is simple:

Imagine that a home user purchases a "Box", they plug this into their home router and then scan a QR code on the box to use a super friendly interface to setup their "Box".

Then on their Linux Phone (can be Android in the interim, but Android phones have privacy concerns) they can install all the apps where all the data and account is strictly stored on the "Box".

The "Box" would also automatically form a global P2P decentralised cluster and act as a secure encrypted storage for other "Boxes".

Think of this is owning your own "private cloud" in your home or shop.

The "Box" would also come with multiple services baked in, including its own secure Wifi with lots of strong parental control that is managed via an app on the phone, things like pausing/banning individual or all connected devices, trigger word detection, local AI based image inspection, setting total internet usage limits, setting "bed time" schedules as well as blocklists of sites. It would also have DNS filtering to stop adware (much like PiHole), and optional Tor networking. (Technically speaking we would build on top of an Immutable Linux OS such as Universal Blue with all applications and services install as Flatpak/AppImages etc)

In terms of the phone app side I was thinking of the following:

• Admin Manager (to manage all families accounts)
• Auth (SSO Single Sign On for all apps)
• Notes (can be shared with other accounts in real time, like Google Notes)
• Contacts (will use standard vCard format and CardDav protocol)
• Calendar (will use stand CalDav protocol)
• Kanban (Jira like for project management)
• Files (allows backups of files on phone to the "Box")
• Photos (replacement for Google Photos)
• Passwords (replacement for things like Password Managers)
• Authenticator (2FA TOP replacement like Google Authenticator, keys are stored on the "Box")
• Chat (allows secure chat between accounts as well ACROSS boxes)
• Mail (allows email like text between any accounts on any box)
• Maps (Like Google Maps, but the Box provides the routing/navigation services and the user selects and downloads the countries they need)
• Coin (secure digital "money" can transfer between any account on any box. Money generation is entirely another topic of discussion)
• News (automated scraped and collated data from the web, potentially using optional RSS)

(some users will still want their Android apps, while not recommended we can use Waydroid to run those apps inside a sandbox, however this may not work for all Android apps, especially given how much Google is locking things down now)

And potentially other apps as well, the principle being all the data is stored on the "Box" which will be accessible globally to authenticated accounts of that box only, it's essentially a "private cloud" with added parental security controls/management.

Also for example, because it will have a decentralised aspect, the data will be "backed up" across other boxes (or use something like IPFS network via pinning) this means for example if the box is damaged it's not a problem just get a new "box" and when doing the setup one can click "import" and just provide the security key to restore the box from the P2P/IPFS backup.

This will also allow "moving" accounts across these "boxes" using the "Admin Manager".

Also it's scaleable, if one needs more storage either buy a larger "Box" or just buyer another "Box" and during the setup select "Join existing Box" and it will automatically connect to the first box and expand the data available (and this can be repeated as many times as needed).

Of course all of this will be open source, so anyone can build these boxes DIY if they so choose, or just buy one fully built and already setup.

What I'm describing is basically self hosting private server with a ton of custom apps and services. It's entirely possible to do today, but only for those who are highly technical, the idea of the "Box" is to make this a "Turn Key" solution and one that is completely user friendly and doesn't need any technical skills, it's the "Apple User Experience" of "it just works".

Perhaps this was what the internet was originally supposed to be, not this fully centralised and owned by a few tech giant monsters that spy on everything we do and sell our data to other companies and the government.

This will need a lot of funding, developers and resources, but I believe it's not impossible if the the will and desire is there.

Assalamu alaikum,

I am building an independent , first principles and novel math based , foundational AI project called AQiDA.

AQiDA = Autonomous Quasi-Unitary Inference Differentiable Architecture.

In plain English - I am trying to build an AI system that does not just guess confidently. The goal is to build AI that tests possible answers, keeps track of contradictions, and only makes a claim when the result can be checked.

Think of it like this - every possible answer is a signal. Good answers keep matching the evidence. Bad answers collide with the evidence and get rejected. AQiDA is my attempt to make AI earn its claims instead of just sounding convincing.

Why this matters - in science, healthcare, engineering, finance, and industry, a confident black-box answer is NOT enough. These fields need AI that can be tested, audited, challenged, and improved.

I am keeping the core implementation private for now because there may be IP involved, but I can share the public-safe status.

1. Symbolic equation discovery
AQiDA recovered a known symbolic-regression benchmark equation exactly across 100 runs under a no-leakage protocol. The key point is not just the score. The important part is the discipline that the solver did not receive the target answer, and the final claim passed a verifier boundary.

2. PDE / simulation repair
AQiDA produced a scientific simulation-repair result where the latest heldout run beat local learned controls. I am not claiming broad SOTA yet. The honest claim is narrower. It produced a real technical signal on a hard scientific-modeling direction.

3. Costas / signal-search optimization
AQiDA has early results in Costas/radar-style signal search, producing valid arrays with 0 collisions and strong sidelobe metrics. In simple terms, this points toward cleaner signal patterns, which can matter in sensing, communications, and optimization.

The bigger mission is this:

Muslim developers should not only build app-layer products. Those are valuable, but some of us should also work at the foundations: AI architecture, verification, safety, scientific reasoning, math, and high-stakes systems.

I have been encouraged seeing communities like Muslims in ML and Muslamic Makers grow. My hope is for AQiDA to contribute to the verification and scientific-reasoning side of that ecosystem.

I am looking for serious people in a few areas:

• PyTorch / JAX / numerical computing
• symbolic regression / scientific ML / PDEs
• signal processing / optimization
• MLOps, benchmarking, reproducibility
• AI governance, evaluation, and safety
• product/founder/operators who can help turn research into demos and products
• warm intros to ethical grants, labs, advisors, funders, or paid AI consulting opportunities

For immediate practical reality, I am also open to paid AI product strategy, GenAI governance, RAG/evaluation, and applied AI consulting work while building AQiDA.

I am not asking anyone to believe hype.
I am looking for serious Muslims who can review, challenge, build, and help turn this into something useful.

Question for the group:

Should Muslim developers focus mainly on app-layer products, or should more of us also work on the foundations of AI, verification, safety, math, and scientific computing?

If you are interested, please comment or DM with:

1. your technical background,
2. which area you can help with,
3. whether you are interested as a collaborator, reviewer, advisor, operator, intro source, or just want to follow the work.

Jazakum Allahu khairan.
I would love to connect with Muslim builders who care about AI that is not just powerful, but testable, truthful, and beneficial.

The ummah is in need of tons of their own versions of services and demands, that are outside of the influence of parties that are against our interests.

I get that it's easy to do, but please. I beg you. Enough prayer widgets, apps, extensions, etc. We have such a vibrant and rich community of this apps, your innovation is not needed here.

Use your talents to find better pastures.

Assalamu Alaikum everyone,

I started building two small Islamic projects that focus on intention, sincerity, and hidden good deeds instead of public validation.

🌱 Neyty
neyty.sabeelmuslim.com

A simple idea centered around intentions (نية).
Small daily reminders, reflections, and personal spiritual goals that stay between you and Allah.

🤍 Khabea / خبيئة
khabea.sabeelmuslim.com

This one is especially close to my heart.

It’s built around the idea of having a “hidden deed” that nobody knows about except Allah:

• secret charity
• quiet dua for others
• hidden Quran habits
• helping someone anonymously
• private night prayer
• silent acts of kindness

The goal isn’t streaks, likes, or public sharing.
Actually… the opposite.

I wanted something that gently encourages sincerity in a world that constantly pushes us to display everything publicly.

I’m also finished android mobile apps for both projects, so they can become daily companions instead of just websites.

Still early, still improving, but I’d genuinely love feedback, ideas, or even thoughts about how to make them more meaningful and beneficial for people.

May Allah allow us to have hidden deeds that save us on the Day we meet Him 🤍