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@zaarheed

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Startup founder. Anterior (fka Co:Helm) — we’re building a Digital Nurse using AI to tackle the trillion dollar healthcare administration crisis

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3 years
Loool the best message I’ve received in a long time 🤣
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@zaarheed
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1 year
I built a ChatGPT plugin that lets me ask any video a question like this one from @jamescalam about @pinecone and @LangChainAI Code: Message me if you have dev access and wanna try it 🤙🏽
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@zaarheed
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3 years
200 orders per minute We’re going to the moon 🚀 I need a team 😅
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@zaarheed
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4 years
October: Less than 50 impressions and less than 5 clicks per day Now: Up to 5K impressions and up to 900 clicks per day (100% organic) How: SEO 🚀 All I did was rebuild the site using @vercel Next.js and implement SEO best practises. Less than 3 days work
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2 years
My friends roasted me for hand-delivering window stickers to restaurants all over London. Why are you wasting your time? This will never work! The design is ugly they’ll throw it in the bin This is the 177th restaurant im signing up this year through INBOUND! 😋
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@zaarheed
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3 years
We really did that! 🚀 Now i need a team to take this forward - BizDev - Engineers - Product - Anyone else that wants to contribute Flexible commitment. Haven’t figured out the details yet but i’m always 100% transparent hmu hmu hmu 🤙🏽
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@zaarheed
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10 months
After spending a week in California with these boys I’m convinced at least one of them is going to change the world 🇺🇸 @asabbas98 @shhhbaz @AnasPwnapple @__okhan @owaissquadri @amanmibra Who’s joining the next retreat? 👀
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@zaarheed
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1 year
I’m hiring engineers! Help fix healthcare administration in the US 🇺🇸 Think ChatGPT for nurses that manage records for thousands of patients every week Hmu if you wanna get paid to build with @nextjs @tailwindcss @LangChainAI @OpenAI 🤙🏽 Details:
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@zaarheed
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8 months
It’s undeniable that Palestinian talent is some of the best in the world I’m hosting a @MuslamicMakers meetup to spotlight, celebrate and bring awareness to their stories 🇵🇸 Everybody welcome. Come through!!
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@zaarheed
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1 year
this all started when i bought a domain on a whim a year ago - alhumdulillah look where we are now ✨ thank you all for coming, we made history together #muslimtechfest @muslamicmakers @muslimtechfest @Ri_Science
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@zaarheed
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2 years
We’re putting Buskana in to the hands of 10,000 people this weekend 🚀
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@zaarheed
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1 year
Packaging an open source llm into an npm library to make this ai powered datepicker available in any react app with zero config and no api keys
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@zaarheed
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3 years
Spent the weekend building this landing page for a new project 👀 Used Tailwind v2 + Next.js (React) 😋 (this was the original vision for Halal Joints way back in 2019)
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@zaarheed
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2 years
The number of men that are messaging Halal Joints today asking for last minute reservations 😂 Lads if you were about your woman you’d have this booked and on lock weeeeeks ago 👀
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@zaarheed
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7 months
They will never avoid the voices of the voiceless for as long we give Gazans the platform to share their stories and lead conversations. Together we will turn hearts and change the world. Thank you @AAbuhashem @AmrMonzir @Abeerabughaith @MuslamicMakers 💚🤍🖤❤️
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@zaarheed
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6 months
The @muslimtechfest is running a Build Challenge to combat child hunger. We’ll bring the most immaculate @_buildspace vibes to London and help @CharityRightUK deliver 50,000,000 school meals And you don’t need to write code to participate! Apply here:
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@zaarheed
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5 months
If you're an early-stage founder building a company to solve one of the world's biggest problems, you should really consider applying to @sequoia Arc! DM me details of what you're working on if you'd like a referral
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Sequoia Capital
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Applications for @Sequoia Arc are now open for founders in the Americas and Europe. Learn more about our 7-week company-building immersion for pre-seed and seed-stage founders here:
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@zaarheed
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3 years
Spoke to a lot of startup founders today who raised pretty respectable rounds straight after landing their first customer I landed my first customer before I wrote a line of code, 5fig in revenue since and still don’t believe I’ve done enough What’s wrong with me lmao
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1 year
I watched a video to learn about US healthcare. There was so much new info I couldn't recall much after “whats the name of the thing that has all the drugs and their tiers?” 🎥 ask any video any question built with @nextjs @langchainai and open sauce 🍜
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1 year
Next Ramadan I’m gonna hire a truck, fill it with nap pods and park it in the middle of the city so all the homies take midday naps
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@zaarheed
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2 years
I’m about half way through the @_buildspace gpt-3 writer build with @FarzaTV and this is what I have so far. Need to crack prompt chaining bc right now the AI therapist either talks to itself or asks the same questions again and again 💩
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@zaarheed
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7 months
pg you’re a beacon of hope for more people than you think. thank you for speaking up. power to you my g 🫡🇵🇸
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Paul Graham
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@AlaHaddad23 I'm going to speak up more now. This is exactly the way *not* to get me to stop talking about something.
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@zaarheed
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4 years
Started migrating data for the new @HalalJointsApp Still blows my mind that two of us signed up 850 restaurants to the platform in less than a year. And this was mostly done during lunch breaks at work! Just shows anything is possible if you really want to make it happen 🚀
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@zaarheed
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3 years
Me: i’ll check with my graphics designer and see what they come back with Also me:
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It’s not perfect and it’s full of bugs but my weekend’s code is out there for the world to enjoy 🚢 🚀
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@zaarheed
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I’m using 80+ startup lessons I’ve learnt to make the @muslimtechfest Build Challenge better than any hackathon: ⭐️ in-person sessions at @HulmClub ⭐️ #buildinpublic for real customer problems ⭐️ learn how to build a startup with or without code Apply:
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@zaarheed
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4 years
in many respects WHAT. A. YEAR. 🤯
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@zaarheed
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3 years
Manifesting this will be a good month for Buskana by placing an order for 40 tablets 💫 (upgraded from 7inch Lenovo M7 to 10inch Lenovo M10 as well)
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@zaarheed
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I’m doing that thing again where I pretend to know what I’m talking about in front of an audience I’ll share how devs with no marketing experience (me 🙋🏽‍♀️) can use SEO to take their projects from 0 to 1,000,000 at #brightonSEO Come cheer me on:
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Rewriting the Halal Joints website to be more of a discovery/directory platform rather than a landing page for the app I’ve always liked how @Airbnb do it so I’m gonna use their website for inspiration Here’s the homepage so far...
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@zaarheed
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3 years
It’s happening! I’m speaking at @netlify ’s headless commerce summit this week on how Buskana is supercharging the restaurant industry 🚀 Come along if you’re interested in Jamstack, E-Commerce or how I built Buskana 😋 Details and (free) registration:
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@zaarheed
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3 years
Managed to miss another @HalalJointsApp milestone This time it’s a record 3,000,000 search impressions in 2021 I was hoping to reach it before the end of the year but with 2 months to go I might even get 3.5M SEO doing bits 🎯
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@zaarheed
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1 year
Now I don’t need to watch super long videos people send me (voicenotes next) 😬🤣😅 (Sorry to do you dirty like this @abduljamac ) 🎥
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@zaarheed
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Thank you for being there from the start!! I hope anyone reading this takes inspiration and finds hope in their own journey 🙏🏽 Failure is inevitable, get comfortable with it and pivot to serve your customers
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@zaarheed
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3 years
And so it begins... the Buskana rebrand 🎨 Lowkey excited to mess with Framer Motion and Three.js to make things 💥 pop 💥
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@zaarheed
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3 years
Still going. Running the whole thing off a laptop and smartphone. If there ever was a real inshallah and vibes moment this is it. Alhumdulillah ✨
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Lads im on the verge of committing another heinous crime and giving my new side project a terrible name like HaLaL jOiNtS or bUsKaNa or tOyStOrYcReAToR 😰
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@zaarheed
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3 years
Heroku bill came through for September. It cost one hot chocolate to process £10k+ orders Technology is wild 🤯
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@zaarheed
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4 years
“made with ❤️” is so last year
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@zaarheed
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Somebody stop me before I register another domain with a stupid name that makes no sense for a concept that will never wo-... Woops too late 🙃
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I didn’t need to invert a binary tree or do a whiteboard test to build Buskana so trust me you can tell that hiring manager to fuck off too
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@zaarheed
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Talk to customers → identify problems → rapidly prototype → ship in 12 weeks 🚀 The @muslimtechfest Build Challenge with @CharityRightUK is a hands-on experience of building a mini startup for a meaningful cause (and a big prize 🤪) 🚨 FINAL CALL:
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@zaarheed
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10 months
@HulmClub It’s only a matter of time before somebody flips the script and tells @sundarpichai he looks like me 🤣 Thank you @UnwrittenTech @HumayraHanif @HulmClub and everyone else that has been cheering me on. It’s been a journey. I love and appreciate you all so much ❤️❤️
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@zaarheed
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3 years
Thank you Mufti Musk for clarifying Islamic finance
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u can’t sell houses u don’t own u can’t sell cars u don’t own but u *can* sell stock u don’t own!? this is bs – shorting is a scam legal only for vestigial reasons
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It’s literally me 💅🏽 #iykyk
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4 years
Can’t help but to read React Native code in a french accent and I blame @wcandillon
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3 years
Landing page is still largely unfinished but the ✨SEO SAUCE✨ is already driving more traffic than expected Still only one organic conversion though, and I blame my pathetic design and copywriting skills So I’m A/B testing some language changes and will measure after 2 weeks
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@zaarheed
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Needed to free up some of my own time so I hired someone to manage content for Halal Joints… and they’re killing it!!! 100 new restaurants added every week last month 🔥 I think it’s time to start looking outside London 👀
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3 years
Could Apple not wait until after the weekend to roll out iOS 15? They moved the address bar in Safari and I don’t have time for users to complain about issues like this again 😭😭
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2 years
My motto for March is to be deliberately optimistic Hmu if you’re feeling down and let’s sprinkle some ✨ in to our lives (or ugly cry together)
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3 years
Almost 4 weeks exactly since I launched this update And like clockwork my SEO tweaks have kicked in and doubled traffic That’s why I always suggest doing SEO in 4-6 week cycles. It requires patience but if you can’t measure your results you won’t get anywhere
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3 years
Rewriting the Halal Joints website to be more of a discovery/directory platform rather than a landing page for the app I’ve always liked how @Airbnb do it so I’m gonna use their website for inspiration Here’s the homepage so far...
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Cooking 🧑‍🍳
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@zaarheed
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2 years
Wrote myself a letter before Ramadan because I wanted to prove how much can change in 30 days. Reading it back feels like it was written by a different person. Growth is such a special feeling. Alhumdulillah
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@zaarheed
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Recording for my #Jamstack talk at @Netlify ’s Headless Commerce Summit is up! Welcome new followers 👋🏽 Excited to have you along for the journey as I help restaurants take back control 💥
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There are so many unsung heroes amongst us. @HassunElZafar is one of them. A pleasure working with you to put on the #muslimtechfest @muslamicmakers @ri_science 🚀
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Co-producing the inaugural and sell-out #MuslimTechFest at @Ri_Science today alongside @MuslamicMakers was an absolute honour. This is how you open up museums and cultural spaces. Co-create with communities and empower them to have access and ownership. Alhamdullilah.
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@zaarheed
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2 years
A year ago today! Still inshallah and vibes. Still rocking sliders with socks 💅🏽
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Still going. Running the whole thing off a laptop and smartphone. If there ever was a real inshallah and vibes moment this is it. Alhumdulillah ✨
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Wait does this mean there’s gonna be a second @muslimtechfest ? 👀
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For anyone that missed out on the tech fest, we're excited to share a recap of the day! Hosted by @Arf_22 and @zaarheed , this incredible, inaugural event made history and we're looking forward to making the next one bigger and better! Filmed and edited by @its_me_shaz
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3 years
Millionaires and politicians cheating on their spouses tells me everything I need to know about finding “success” and “purpose” in this dunya
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@zaarheed
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2 years
You know what… Fuck it. I’m a millennial so I’ve decided to put I don’t like Leetcode at the top of my CV
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3 years
Buskana apparently
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2 years
Prize money for #ToyStoryCreator 🧸 landed! Plan is to finish the project for World Book Day (2nd March) and spend the prize money to print personalised story books for disadvantaged children. If you know any local schools/teachers I can work with to make this happen hmu! 🤙🏽
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4 years
Feel like I should document my @HalalJointsApp journey and milestones more often
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IT WORKS!!!!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥰🥰🥰🥰💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
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3 years
Sometimes I start my standups with a full salaam but thankfully nobody pays attention to what I say anyway
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uyghur维吾尔 | 🍊 Maria 🇵🇸🇸🇩
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The Muslim urge to put InshaAllah at the end of emails to ~absolutely everyone~
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Calling hiring managers “mate” to let them know this will be an informal interview and I won’t be taking technical questions 😂
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Submitted: Supercharging the restaurant industry with @Netlify + Jamstack 🚀
@Netlify
Netlify
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Call for Papers for Headless Commerce Summit is open! We want to hear about how you’re shaping the future of e-commerce. ⚡️ Jamstack ecommerce at scale ⚡️ ️Headless architecture for unique services ⚡️ Unlocking collaboration workflows
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petition to make @WeWork let me have the aux cable on weekends because I’m the only one ever here
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1 year
I met some of my favourite people, shared the funniest memories and experienced the most significant personal growth at Neo Accelerator If you’re raising your first round and/or looking for an accelerator @Neo has gone clear. Immaculate vibes 👌🏽
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Neo
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Founders: Apply now to Neo Accelerator, the ultimate launchpad for 20 awesome tech startups.
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3 years
If I was CEO of GameStop I would liquidate the company and put the money towards homelessness or child poverty. Teach everyone a lesson 🤭
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1 year
When people ask me how I ended up with a healthcare startup
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Mike McGuiness
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Q: How often do pivots work? Instagram founder Kevin Systrom famously pivoted from his mobile check-in app Burbn to build one of the most successful social networking products of all time. In this clip, he posits that most successful companies are pivots. He points out that
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Deel is the fastest growing B2B SaaS startup in history and @meltemkuran basically said don’t sleep on SEO
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Lenny Rachitsky
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Lenny's Podcast full episodes now native on @X ! Meltem Kuran Berkowitz ( @meltemkuran ) is Head of Growth at @Deel , which she helped grow from $0 to an astounding $300m ARR in under 3 years. In our conversation, Melem shares: [6:32] How Deel found success leveraging low-cost
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3 years
Seeing more and more of these scan to order QR codes everywhere I go. Maybe I wasn’t crazy and maybe I was on to something. Bittersweet
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@zaarheed
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4 years
Pleased to announce Abshir VC ( @__abshir ) has led the latest investment round after a successful pitch on @joinClubhouse 😂
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3 years
Last month a restaurant was struggling to be found on Google despite paying their web designer thousands ££ Listed them on Halal Joints, they hit #2 on Google in a week and now they’re hooked 🎣 They call me every week asking how we can “work together”
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Starting another bank holiday project with the GOAT stack 🐐 npx create-next-app I swear @nextjs is crack disguised as a web framework
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2 years
This was so much fun... and so much progress since!! Thanks for having me gang @Tzmanics @cassidoo @jlengstorf
@RemotelyPod
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📢 And we're back! To kick off our first episode of the year, we're stoked to share @zaarheed 's journey to building Buskana!
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With chest 😁🤩
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These events always leave me inspired I’m reminded we can go so far, so quickly, when we go together Now it’s our responsibility to bring along one friend to the next @DeenDevelopers hackathon, to grow this talented family and help each other be the best version of ourselves ✨
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2 years
What my little cousin thinks when i help him with algebra homework
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Technology is so wild, almost anyone can make money with a bit of luck When I was ~14 I made $48k with the worlds most useless BlackBerry theme that just changed your app icons Consistency has always been the hard part
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traf
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1. Share my iOS home screen setup 2. Notice some crazy interest in the icons 3. Design icon set, and upload it to @gumroad 4. Create a website on @notionhq using @super_ 5. Make $5,264 in my sleep, all from ~2 hours of work The internet is wild.
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RaaS = Raven as a Service. The foolproof way to build passive income by training a raven to do this
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Made me giggle ngl
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2 years
People that share this planet can still be living in a completely different worlds. He really doesn’t have a clue does he?
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3 years
Whenever I’ve spoken to @ShahzadYounas_ this is the message that always shines through. I agree with every bone in my body: products built for our community must be built by our community. Hope you buss case my g 👊🏽
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Shahzad Younas
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We fight, because we must. It is crucial that products built for our community are built BY our community, and that we do not allow ourselves to be dictated and controlled by others. Our mission is to transform how Muslims meet and marry.
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Literally only days left until I finish my masters but I am yet to take it seriously
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If product market fit is the true measure of investment-worthiness then I know a few books that should be worth a trillion dollars But they’re not Building a business is 10% building the right thing and 90% putting it in front of the right people
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My heart is so full! Thank you for your incredibly generous act of kindness @justmebreathing ❤️‍🔥
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Arfah 🇵🇸
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@justmebreathing @zaarheed is there too. He is running buskana!
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QR codes are finally getting the recognition they deserve ...and hundreds of @HalalJointsApp QRs are already in shop windows across London
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There is nothing more beautiful in this life than having the patience to let the universe work it’s magic. Nothing. ✨
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7 years
POISONOUS!!!!!
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#Amnesia video out now #PoisonousPoets ☠️ c the full video here
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@asabbas98 You could fork and modify for Muslim filters/categories. It’s open-source and pretty well built so easy for juniors to jump in and get involved too
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McGregor, Mayweather and that guy from YouTube have mastered the art of storytelling They know how to get paid $50M for six months of trash talk and a little dance in the ring When I trash talk I get my 🍑 kicked on FIFA and my bank account still empty. Props to them tbh
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Is this the world’s first Clubhouse-focused SaaS? 🤩 Give @haroonisdreamin a 👍🏽 on product hunt for his side project that just launched
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Tim Carambat
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@haroonisdreamin and I hacked on a 👋Clubhouse side-project in beta rn! Host Notes is CH events, but ⚡ . Take your CH event URL and past it into our app and we give it everything you actually ever wanted. Agendas, RSVPs, References, Summaries, + more!
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3 years
the millennial urge to join The Great Resignation is so real rn 🤏🏽🥵
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Back to writing blogposts instead of essays for uni 🤑
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Team GR8 🤣💪🏽 I wonder who came up with that 👀 #HackathonForHomelessness by @DeenDevelopers and @VSfromCrisis
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3 years
Time for Team 8 aka Team Gr8 #HackathonForHomelessness
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zahid
3 years
Haven’t felt unwell for nearly two years, but now I return to the office and… 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ I blame men that don’t wash their hands after using the toilet 🤮🤮🤮🤮
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zahid
4 years
Just ate a Ferrero Rocher and it gave me some bad boi inspiration on how to redo my portfolio website 🤩 I find personal websites/portfolios such a chore but I’m pretty excited to give this new idea a go
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zahid
1 year
What a shot by @Adagile_ 🤩🙌🏽
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Adil
1 year
We are a full house! Starting off with intros to the day from our co founder @Arf_22 #muslimtechfest
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