I'm a solo founder building my own mobile products, from the first idea to the store listing: product, design, the app, the backend, the website and the release. Before going solo I spent 2.5+ years shipping 18+ apps for Android, iOS, Android TV and tablet.
const ali = {
role: "Solo founder · React Native engineer",
base: "Islamabad, Pakistan · remote",
building: ["Passpip", "Paisly"],
stack: ["React Native", "Expo", "TypeScript", "Node.js"],
principles: ["offline-first", "honest numbers", "small files, tested logic"],
openTo: ["freelance app projects", "collaborations"],
};|
Exam prep for citizenship tests. The first app covers Germany's Leben in Deutschland / Einbürgerungstest. It has all 460 questions from the official BAMF catalogue, with explanations, a timed mock exam, spaced-repetition mistake review and a readiness score. Pip the swallow keeps you company.
Status: in development · Android first · Germany, then the UK and beyond
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Expense & udhar book. It tracks daily spending (kharcha) and money lent and borrowed between friends, roommates and colleagues. Cash, bank, JazzCash and Easypaisa count as real accounts, alongside budgets and reminders.
Status: closed testing on Google Play
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- Offline-first. Study, tracking and exams all work with no signal. The app never waits for a server.
- One engine, many apps. Passpip is a monorepo where each country is a separate store app built from the same codebase.
- Pure, tested logic. Scoring, readiness, streaks and spaced repetition live in a plain TypeScript package with the clock passed in, and they're covered by unit tests.
- Design systems, not one-off styles. Theme tokens, light and dark mode, one configurable component per role, and touch targets of 48 dp or more.
- Built for every reader. Four languages, including right-to-left Arabic, with system font scaling respected.
| Where | What I shipped |
|---|---|
| Wicked Digital UK | Comet, an offline-first field-service app for automotive locksmiths, with Azure AD B2C sign-in, SignalR live updates and photo uploads to Azure Blob Storage |
| Zysoftec | 13+ apps across learning, CRM, shopping and booking, including InstaOwl V2, a learning platform on phone, TV and tablet. Employee of the Month, Mar 2025 |
| Skylarks IT Solutions | 5+ cross-platform apps: screens, app state and REST integrations |
| COMSATS · GDSC | BS Computer Science. Front-end team lead at GDSC, and COMSATS NAV AR, an augmented-reality campus navigation app built in Unity |
Building in public, one app at a time. Open to freelance app projects and collaborations. Say hi at alihere786@gmail.com.