Experiments · self-initiated

Things I built because they needed building.

Nobody hired me for these. AI made building cheap, which moves the hard part to knowing what to build and why.

Spot the gapA structural problem nobody owns.
Spec itDecide what it’s for before what it does.
Build itAI-assisted, systems first.
Ship earlyThen write down what got left out.

One app instead of five, shaped around how the restaurant already runs.

The itch

Running the restaurant meant paper ledgers and separate tools that didn’t talk to each other. Nothing off the shelf fit how we actually work.

What it covers
  • Tasks, campaigns and day-to-day operations.
  • Finance, accounting and a cash register screen modeled on the paper process staff already knew.
  • Inventory and the central kitchen, with recipes kept in-house.
  • WhatsApp marketing and a customer inbox.
  • HR: salaries, attendance, leave and bonuses.
Why build it

So it scales with new branches, keeps the interface familiar to staff, and keeps the business’s data in its own hands.

A home-services directory for Karachi, filtered by area.

The itch

There was no trusted way to find a plumber or electrician near you. The value in local traffic is the relationships it creates, not the ads you could show it.

Preparedness for Pakistani families, without the imported tactical theater.

The itch

Families here have no credible local brand for being ready when things go wrong.

My two essays on AI work, turned into a tool.

What it does

A Claude skill that sorts a piece of work into routine, learnable, verifiable or judgment, then recommends how to build it: a script, a graph, a loop, or a single call. Version 2.0.