Industrial engineering student at KAUattendance: negotiable by day, founder after midnight. Co-founded Shaterشاطر — it means clever, an AI study assistant students actually pay for, and built ضياعso your days stop going missing, an Arabic-first habit tracker launching with a creator behind 100M+ views. Usually shippingdeployed > perfect things people open every day.
Shater went live in the middle of a semester, between assignments, with a feature list that embarrassed me. It didn't matter. The first paying user taught me more in one week than a month of polishing would have — what they actually opened, what they ignored, what they'd pay for twice.
Waiting until it feels ready is just fear with a roadmap. The version you're ashamed of is the only one that can collect real answers, and real answers compound faster than code.
Most apps treat Arabic as a translation pass at the end: flip the layout, run the strings through a service, ship. Users can feel it instantly. The copy reads like a manual, the humor doesn't land, and the product stays something borrowed.
ضياع starts from the other end — the name itself is untranslatable on purpose. Building for Saudi and MENA first means the small things are native: the tone, the streak that respects Ramadan, the notification that sounds like a friend. That's not localization. That's the product.
Turns lectures, notes and PDFs into summaries and quizzes for students who are out of time. 15K+ usersevery single one earned at $4K MRRpeak month: February.
Arabic-first habits & goals tracker — catch your days before they slip. 4K+ pre-registeredbefore launch day, launching with a creator behind 100M+ viewszero ad spend.
Three podium finishes across Saudi's top hackathons — plus national finals with the KAU squad:
Global hackathon at Misk Global Forum 2025 in Riyadh, in partnership with Uber. Team Darb Misk took first and 30,000 SAR for an API that turns ride-hailing trips into interactive cultural journeys for tourists.
KAU Entrepreneurship Club's startup growth competition — took first at the closing ceremony.
NewTech's community hackathon — 3rd in the app-development track with Shater, the study companion that went on to become the real product.
Qualified to the finals of the world's largest hackathon — 4,000+ builders at Riyadh Front — run by the Ministry of Interior with Tuwaiq Academy during Absher 2025.
Representing King Abdulaziz University across national hackathon finals — counter still running.