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and that's a wrap on the dd buildathon demo day.
8 teams. ai receptionists, scrollable islamic history, open banking, medical compliance, driving-school software, and more. all built by muslim founders who just decided to start.
wallahi, the talent in that room.
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stork is going after medical device compliance, and the traction is wild for how early they are.
ai-native platform for the work that usually takes consultants weeks and £40k to get a device to market.
6 weeks in: 5 design partners, contracts £50k to £200k .
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amr built @lunchflow over 18 months of nights and weekends. with a one year old at home.
bootstrapped, no funding. it's now doing ~£58k arr, growing 20% a month, and quietly turning into a platform other apps want to build on.
solo founder. respect.
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drivelea might be the most 'why does this not exist yet' pitch today.
the uk driving industry runs on chaos: booking lost in whatsapp, payments by hand, the whole resource plan in one guy's memory.
40,000 instructors stuck on this. drivelea is the os for driving schools.
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usman turned down his dream offer at imperial. the only way in was an interest-based loan, so he walked.
at apprenticeships he saw it: classmates with better grades getting rejected. the gap wasn't talent, it was proof.
he built sprout. 4,000 students on it already.
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more on governance ai. the receipts are strong.
their ai agents handled 56,000 tenant messages 2,800 maintenance jobs for one client. 4,400 survey drafts for another. ~£70k revenue since mid last year, £30k of it in the last two months.
now raising £500k to hire fast.
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governance ai's stat stopped me.
2% of company boards say they understand ai. their own test of 500 directors? under 5%.
and these are the people signing off on ai strategy. governance ai trains the board ships engineers in to build. 5 paying clients already.
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mid-break at the buildathon. everyone's networking, it's boiling out, and we're all running on karak chai from karak 24 (local, muslim-owned).
back to the demos in a bit.
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lunchflow is a proper solo founder story.
amr couldn't connect his bank to his favourite budgeting app. multi-currency, messy spreadsheets, the lot. so he built the fix himself.
now it connects 20,000 institutions across 40 countries. one guy.
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signed is one of those ideas that just feels right.
you write a letter, seal it, and pick when it arrives. to someone you love, or your future self. want it on paper? they handwrite it, wax seal it, and post it.
they sent one to a woman's mum in malaysia. made her cry.
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ok tarikh is actually sick.
google earth but for islamic history. scroll the timeline, watch empires rise and fall, trace imam bukhari's life from uzbekistan all the way to baghdad.
beta's 2 weeks old: 2,500 signups, 1,000 journeys done.
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clero just ran their AI receptionist live on stage. it took a real call.
booked a kid in for monday 9am, jaw pain, straight into the clinic's booking system. no human touched it.
one clinic, last 15 days: 37 new appointments. £6,100 that would've just rung out.
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the biggest thing stopping you from building isn't skill. it's how you think.
"i've got a stable job. i don't have the time."
but there's a verse: in the heaven is your provision, and all that you are promised.
your limit isn't real. build like it. 🤍
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the sponsor behind a lot of this, @co_continuum, just laid out the vision:
founders in jakarta, istanbul, everywhere. each one a point of light on its own.
connect them and you get a constellation. the goal: 1,000 faith-based ventures by 2030.
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they just asked the whole room: what's the best idea you've had and never built?
30 seconds, turn to the person next to you, go.
room's gone loud. everyone's got one
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the founders demoing today have spent months building.
the best thing you can do now: back them. intro them to people. give them honest advice. fund them if you can.
that's what a builder community is actually for. 🤍
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the numbers behind deen developers so far:
$5m raised by our builders
12 teams gone full time
3 exits
1 team into YC
all from people who started by giving up a weekend to build something. 🤍
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tech gives you almost infinite leverage. build from your bedroom, reach millions.
AI makes it bigger. systems that decide, that act for you, that shape how people think.
which is why the question that matters isn't "can we build it." it's "are we building in the right direction." 🤍
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the day you start building, someone will tell you you can't.
then someone else. then a customer. then the doubt in your own head.
deen developers exists to remove those obstacles one by one. that's the whole job. 🤍
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how deen developers actually runs:
every week, every builder ships an update. what was your goal last week? did you hit it?
you report to a real person in a huddle. no hiding, no drifting.
structure is why these projects actually get finished. 🤍
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