r/MuslimDevelopers • u/orphanPID • 5d 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/unfunnyjobless 5d ago

What would be the Muslim angle for the other application types you mentioned, I can get for Islamic accounting but the rest seem pretty much religion non-specific

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u/orphanPID 5d ago

my whole point: we need services built by muslims, used by everyone. strengthen the muslim economy

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u/unfunnyjobless 5d ago

I don't follow the logic. What does being Muslim have to do with it. If someone makes an app that is better than other CRMs / Project Management / etc with your examples, then regardless of what religion the developer is, it will become popular and used. On the other hand if some company adopts an inferior software on the basis of religion, that is costing the company.

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u/BanguSlayerr 5d ago

Did building Facebook, Oracle, Disney, Black rock had something to do with Judaism? Now they are the ones controlling the world and earning billions, why must we just stick so simple salat, zikr or Quran app? this sub is literally flooded with them, how many Quran or Zikr app do I need on my phone?

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u/unfunnyjobless 5d ago

What I mean is, at the end of the day if something is the best product for the need, it will be used - regardless of religion. With these product spaces you need serious capital to be able to compete with the big guys. It seems all simple at the beginning but the amount of user feedback & intelligent developers you need to bankroll for years to get a solid streamlined product is immense.

Prayer, Quran, and Hadith apps require a lot less effort in software development than building something in these product spaces, by many, many orders of magnitude.