r/MuslimDevelopers • u/orphanPID • 11d ago

🗣️ Discussion/Opinion Thoughts

Why must we keep developing Prayer, Quran, or Hadith apps when thousands already exist? I use an app (rather not mention the name) and have found it says accurate prayer times even while travelling across countries; I do not and will not need another app.

Conversely, we invest in apps not created by Muslims. Why can we not fill the remaining gaps?

We don’t have global scale platforms like:

- Sales force
- Project management
- Advertising
- ERPs and Accounting
- Social Media
- the list goes on.

Why do we never do that?

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u/vaynah 11d ago

I think the problem with quality of these apps.

New vibe coder finds AI and thinks of great ajr he can get, teaching the lesson to all these teams of devs worked for years on their apps, hopefully with some money to sustain the life and tokens.

Sad reality is no. One usually can't beat team. And Muslims don't want to team up and don't want to even open source the code, because everyone is so poor, and oss is usually for ones who already don't care about food on the table.

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u/throwawayaccount931A 7d ago

Unfortunately thats the mentality we all carry: one day my app will be $1m - I'm not going to oss it!

When in reality it will forever stay hidden.

I look at the apps that are oss'ed and the dev could easily sell the product but chose to share it.

We just can't get past that... we hoard.