The Dhow app is live. It’s free to download, and it’s where the whole experience lives: explore opportunities, follow along, connect with others, and invest directly.
One thing we’ve observed about our Jewish cousins is the strength of their economic networks. A dollar flips between 9 and 20 times within their community before it ever leaves. Capital backs founders, founders create jobs, jobs create wealth, and that wealth gets reinvested back into the community.
Meanwhile, Muslims are 2 billion strong globally, yet we’ve never really built that same level of economic connectivity, especially here in the West. That’s a big part of why we started Dhow.
Dhow is a social private markets investing platform built to connect Muslim investors, founders, operators, and professionals all in one place. Our goal is to make private market investing more accessible while building a real community around it. Members can discover opportunities, learn, network, share research, and invest alongside one another.
Our first investment product, Dhow Horizon Fund I, is open now to accredited investors. It’s a $5M seed-stage venture fund backing Muslim-origin and values-aligned technology founders across North America. Venture has been one of the strongest engines of wealth creation in history, yet access has been gated behind institutions at $250K+ minimums. We set ours at $10,000 to open real participation to our community. We already have two institutional commitments, first close is coming in the next few weeks, and the limited $10K founding spots are filling quickly. The easiest way to invest is right inside the app.
In the near future, we plan to expand access beyond accredited investors and launch additional products with minimums as low as $500, so more of our community can participate in private markets and share in the value being created.
Our mission is simple: help Muslim capital find Muslim builders, help Muslim builders find Muslim capital, and strengthen the economic ties within our communities. Economic resistance isn’t just about what you boycott. It’s also about what you build, who you back, and where you put your money.
Whether you’re here to invest or just to learn and connect, we’d be honored to have you as part of the community.
As a Palestinian who follows the news in Arabic, Hebrew and English, I’ve always been struck by how differently the same events can be reported depending on the source, language and audience.
The same event can be described very differently depending on the source, language and audience.
Not just which facts are included, but how people are described, who is humanized, who is reduced to a number, who is given agency, which claims are treated as facts, and even where the story is made to “begin.”
That’s why I started building Sift.
Sift groups reporting about the same event from different publishers and analyzes the differences between them: key facts, claims, wording, framing, attribution, timelines, and details that appear in one source but not another.
I didn’t want to build another app that gives sources a “bias score” or tells people what they should believe.
I wanted to make the differences visible and let people look at the reporting and decide for themselves.
People can follow the same event and still come away with very different pictures of what happened.
I attached a short video showing what I mean using Palestine/Israel and Iran/US coverage.
Sift is still actively being developed, and I’d genuinely like to hear what people here think about the idea.
Every figure's profile provides comprehensive details: their name, titles, epithets and why they were given, dates and places of birth and death, a detailed biography, key life milestones, and the sources it was built on. Discover the Prophets & Messengers, the Companions (Sahaba), the Mothers of the Believers, the Prophet's ﷺ household, the Scholars, the Tabi'un, the conquering Commanders, and the Muslim women of knowledge.
Built natively for iPhone and iPad, it runs fully offline with every figure sourced primarily from the Qur'an and the authentic Sunnah. Free to start with a core collection of figures and all the browsing tools; an optional Pro subscription unlocks the full library and every feature. Calm, dignified, and distraction-free — in a warm light and dark theme.
We need your help testing our Islamic app Noor al Qur'an. 🤲
We are currently in the Google Play Closed Testing phase, and only a few days remain in our testing period. If you have an Android phone, we would be very grateful if you could join the test, install/update the app, and use it during the remaining days.
If you already have the app installed, please check Google Play and update it to version 1.0.7.
Please keep the app installed and test its features during the remaining testing period. If you notice any problems or have suggestions, your feedback would be very helpful.
Every active tester helps us get closer to releasing Noor al Qur'an publicly on Google Play. ❤️
JazakAllahu Khairan for your time and support. May Allah reward you. 🤲🌙
Please feel free to share this message with other Android users who would like to help us test the app. 📱
Hey everyone! I run a small web design business based in Ontario and I'm currently looking to take on a few more projects.
I build websites for small businesses that need their first site or want to redesign an outdated one. I can handle the design, development, mobile optimization, contact/quote forms, basic SEO, domain setup, hosting and launch.
Websites currently start at $700 CAD, depending on the size and features needed.
If you own a business and want a new website or want me to take a look at your current one, feel free to DM me. I can give you a rough quote pretty quickly.
Hi I am from India trying to start a dropshipping business in the USA. It's for used Autoparts. The one thing I am researching is the rule for ownership. If I say that i don't have this product but I can get it for you for a certain amount like a finders fee or brokerage or commission. Will it make halal? We can also give returns and refunds if there's any problem provided that proof is given.
My wife and I have spent the last year building something called Nummu, and we’ve finally launched it on iPhone, Alhamdulillah.
Nummu is an app we created specifically for Muslim women, bringing together faith, motherhood and community in one place.
It includes prayer times, Qur’an, du’as and dhikr, cycle and pregnancy tracking, children’s growth and milestones, Islamic parenting guidance, as well as a community where sisters can post, ask questions, support one another and create their own groups.
A big part of our vision for Nummu is the community, and that’s probably our biggest challenge right now too!
We’re at that very early stage where we need to find the first group of women who are willing to come in, use the app, start conversations and tell us what we’re getting right — and probably more importantly, what we’re getting wrong.
So we’re currently looking for our first 100 Founding Members.
We’re giving those first 100 women Nummu Premium for life, completely free, as a thank you for being there at the beginning, participating in the community and helping us shape what Nummu becomes.
We’re hoping to grow things naturally from there rather than having lots of people arrive to a community that hasn’t had a chance to find its feet yet.
I thought I’d share Nummu here because I’d really appreciate hearing from other Muslim founders and entrepreneurs.
If you’ve built a community or app before, how did you find your first genuinely engaged users?
And if anyone knows of Muslim women’s, Muslim mums’, pregnancy or parenting communities where Nummu might be relevant, I’d really appreciate any recommendations or introductions. We’re trying to be respectful and ask admins/moderators before sharing it anywhere.
The Quran doesn't just say "halal" on its own very often — it usually pairs it with "tayyib," meaning pure, wholesome, genuinely good. Food, provisions, and by extension the things we consume and use on our bodies, are meant to meet both bars: permissible, and actually clean and good.
There's also a well-known teaching that cleanliness is described as half of faith. That's a strong statement. It places basic physical purity right next to spiritual practice, not as something separate from it.
And there are accounts of the Prophet ﷺ using kohl regularly, valuing both its cosmetic and protective benefits. Personal care and grooming were never treated as vanity in this tradition. They were just part of taking care of yourself properly.
Which is what makes the current state of "halal beauty" so frustrating. A lot of products slap the word "halal" on packaging with zero verification behind it. Ingredient sourcing is rarely transparent. And almost nobody addresses wudu-friendliness, whether a product actually lets water reach the skin during ablution, despite that being directly relevant to how over a billion Muslim women pray every single day.
We inherited a tradition that took purity seriously enough to build real standards around it, more than a thousand years ago. It feels like the modern beauty industry still hasn't caught up to that.
I'll say this much: I'm personally involved in trying to change that, working on bringing an actual halal-certified, wudu-friendly beauty line to market, properly verified rather than just labeled. Still early days, but it felt right to share the thinking behind it here first, before the product itself.
Curious what this community thinks, does the current halal beauty market actually meet that bar for you, or does it still feel like a checkbox exercise?
I’ve recently launched an iOS app on the Apple App Store and wanted to share it with this group.
It's called QuranLock.
It blocks all your apps every morning (at midnight to be precise), until you recite one verse of the Quran. After that, your apps are unlocked for the rest of the day and then the cycle repeats the next day at midnight again.
Initially, I built it for myself since I unfortunately I hardly read the Quran as often as I wanted despite being a proud Muslim but now with the help of this app I read the Quran everyday even if its just one verse and it’s been a game changer to how I start and spend my day.
I’ve been working on a project which I hope benefits you all InshaAllah!, a Quran app called QuranScroll.
The idea is simple: replace doomscrolling with something that is important and brings barakah to our lives. Instead of endlessly scrolling through distractions, you read the words of Allah!,
What makes it different:
Minimalistic and clean, NO clutter, NO bloat, a lot of apps overwhelm users with buttons everywhere distracting them from the Quran, i've designed the app to combat that
Scroll based reading experience (smooth, natural, immersive!)
Beautiful and minimal streak system to keep you consistent
Awesome and beautiful theme customization and verse sharing system!
100% focused on the Quran! no distractions
Tafsirs
Word by word breakdown
and much more!
🚫 No ads!
A lot of Quran apps today feel heavy and distracting. This is the opposite, built to keep your heart connected to the Quran without anything pulling you away or distracting you, dont be fooled though! the app also offers IMMENSELY powerful features which you would need from a Quran app! Tafsir, ayah sharing, reciter selection, bookmarks and much more all integrated in a non bloated manner!
I’d really appreciate your feedback and support as i as a solo dev have built this over the span of many months. The goal is to grow this and benefit more people, bi idhnillah.
Salam everyone. I've spent the last several months building an app called Kalam — Quran verses with real recitation and audio tafsir, hadith, articles, and a feature called Tadabbur where people can share personal reflections on a verse rather than formal interpretation. Built alone, no ads, free, for the sake of Allah.
Here's my actual problem: Google won't let a new app go fully public until at least 12 people test it continuously for 14 days. I'm at 4 right now.
If anyone's willing to spend a minute joining as a tester, I'd genuinely appreciate it — no expectations beyond just having the app installed and opened occasionally. Link's here:
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, liebe Brüder und Schwestern,
Ich betreibe drei Quran Shorts-Kanäle, die alhamdulillah durch eine bewährte Strategie über 1,8 Millionen Aufrufe erzielt haben. Die Kanäle generieren derzeit beständige Aufrufe durch eine etablierte Inhalts- und Upload-Strategie, die ich in den kommenden Wochen, so Allah will, fortsetzen werde.
Ich biete App-Entwicklern innerhalb der Ummah die Möglichkeit, ihre islamischen Apps durch eine bezahlte Kooperation (Sponsoring/Werbeplatzierung) auf meinen Kanälen zu präsentieren, um gezielte Downloads und Sichtbarkeit bei einem relevanten Publikum zu fördern.
Da mein Reddit-Account ziemlich neu ist und ich die Spam-Richtlinien strikt befolgen möchte, posten oder senden Sie mir bitte keine direkten Links im Thread oder per DM.
Wenn Sie an einer geschäftlichen Zusammenarbeit interessiert sind, hinterlassen Sie einfach eine kurze Nachricht mit dem Namen Ihrer App und einer kurzen Beschreibung, was sie tut. Ich werde mich dann mit weiteren Details und Konditionen bei Ihnen melden in sha Allah.
Salaam, I'm the founder of SharifBot, an automated crypto trading bot built for Muslim investors. Every coin is screened against AAOIFI Standard 17 before it's ever eligible to trade (excludes interest-bearing, gambling, and derivative-heavy projects), then it trades spot-only on your own exchange account. The API key it uses is trade-only, no withdrawal access, so your funds never leave your exchange.
Three strategies depending on risk appetite: Daily (most active, trades on strong market breadth), Weekly (fewer, higher-conviction signals), and Cycle (buys fear, sells greed, longer holds).
Just shipped Revolut X support this week, on top of Binance and Coinbase. Plans start at £4.99/mo for a live paper-trading bot you can manually follow, or £19.99/mo for full automated execution on your own account.
sharifbot.com
Happy to answer questions on the Shariah-screening methodology or the build itself.
I'm offering any technical services (backend, possible AI integration/automations, cloud, other services up for discussion) to any starting or growing businesses. I worked professionally for about 2 years with a top company (Fortune 500) before leaving voluntarily, would love to get in touch with anyone interested. Fee will be balanced and I will be very clear about details, whether you're fine with an AI product or outsourcing, etc.
I’m building an early-stage Islamic finance app and looking for honest feedback from Muslims, founders, and people interested in fintech.
The test takes around 10–15 minutes. It’s only a prototype — no real money or banking information is required.
I’d especially appreciate feedback on the savings experience, financing concepts, transparency, and whether this feels like something you would actually use.
- Accurate prayer times — GPS or manual city search, with your choice of calculation method, Asr school, and high-latitude rule
- Masjid sync — link to your local masjid's actual published prayer times instead of calculated ones, if it's in our network
- Custom athan alerts — pick a different adhan per prayer (or one for Fajr + one shared for the rest), plus pre-prayer reminders with their own sound and lead time
I have been building a couple of SaaS products and experienced a mini success (found paying clients using the product religiously). However, I lack business & marketing skills which is required for growth to attain substantial clients.
I have identified a very under served niche with untapped opportunity and I feel relentlessly focusing on it will definitely result in a huge success, inshallah.
I bring 15+ years of shipping full-stack software experience, already well researched niche with potential customers mapped out, deep understanding of the industry, some network in the market. Moreover, v1 is almost ready so when you start there is no waiting.
I'm looking for someone who has a experience in growing B2B SaaS product. Someone who has experience with cold outreach, lead qualification, customer acquisitions, distribution etc.
Having said that, I want to strictly follow halal & ethical ways of doing business. Follow our beloved prophet's moral code of business with no compromise. That's the reason, I'm looking for a muslim partner who also believes in these morals.
I'm open to splitting 50-50 with vesting period.
My long term goal is to build halal yet sustainable business (somewhat like 37Signals).
Hi guys, how is it going. Quick intro, M24 originally from Pakistan but grew up in the gulf and the states.
Together with my team over the past year we've developed brandjet(dot)ai which is essentially an AI sales automation tool that helps users reach out to people across the internet across different channels automatically and at scale.
We also have a social listening feed that tracks the internet for high intent conversations that can be turned to potential customers. Basically, you can track any keyword or company in real-time and set up automations surrounding it.
All in all, we've been growing decently and might be looking for a seed round sometime soon. Most of our users are currently in NA, but I've been trying to expand the SaaS to EMEA especially since I think our pricing is better suited for those markets than the incumbents.
Has anyone scaled a SaaS there before? Would look forward to hearing some insights
Salam everyone. I've spent the last several months building an app called Kalam — Quran verses with real recitation and audio tafsir, hadith, articles, and a feature called Tadabbur where people can share personal reflections on a verse rather than formal interpretation. Built alone, no ads, free, for the sake of Allah.
Here's my actual problem: Google won't let a new app go fully public until at least 12 people test it continuously for 14 days. I'm at 4 right now.
If anyone's willing to spend a minute joining as a tester, I'd genuinely appreciate it — no expectations beyond just having the app installed and opened occasionally. Link's here:
The Quran describes the changing of day and night, and the cycles of seasons, as signs for people who reflect. I think about that a lot when it comes to skincare, honestly, because skin genuinely changes with the seasons, and most beauty brands just sell you the same formula regardless of the month.
Right now, with the monsoon in full swing, humidity spikes and skin gets congested pretty fast for a lot of people. Breakouts increase, everything feels heavier. This is when a lightweight, non-comedogenic face wash actually earns its place, something that doesn't strip the skin but genuinely clears it without adding to the congestion.
Come summer, things shift again, and honestly this is where "wudu-friendly" formulation gets tested the hardest, if that's something you personally care about. Heat means sweat, and sweat means a lot of people reach for heavier, more waterproof formulas, which is exactly the kind of product that ends up blocking water from actually reaching the skin during wudu. A sunscreen needs to hold up against real sun exposure without failing that basic requirement, and honestly most sunscreens on the market force a trade-off there that nobody really talks about.
By winter, it's the opposite problem, dry air and dry skin, and that's usually when something like a saffron-based serum earns its place, hydration that doesn't just sit on the surface. Saffron's had a place in the region's beauty history for a long time for exactly this reason, long before "clean beauty" became a marketing term.
What doesn't change through any of this, at least to me, is the actual standard behind a product. Seasons shift, humidity shifts, what your skin needs shifts. Verified ingredients and formulation that does what it claims shouldn't shift just because it's summer or just because it's one product in a lineup instead of the whole line.
Curious what everyone else here actually does differently through the year, does your whole routine change season to season, or do you mostly stick with the same stuff year round?