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Technology, AI, products and the behind-the-scenes of what I build. The channel is public: I post there and do not follow the comments — questions reach me in direct messages.
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Technology entrepreneur building Muslim Tech products.
An ecosystem for everyday Muslim life
Founder of Umma Life and an ecosystem of services for communication, education, family, privacy, and everyday Muslim life.
- 500K+ Users across all products
- 4.9★ App Store · 4.3 on Google Play
- 10 Products in the ecosystem
- 7 of ten products are free
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About me
Where it started
I am originally from Khasavyurt, Dagestan. My path in technology did not begin with business — it began with hands-on engineering work: systems administration, servers, programming, and data-related projects. Over time my focus shifted from solving individual technical problems to building products of my own.
Why Muslim Tech
Today I develop Umma Life and other Muslim Tech projects. I am interested in a stronger digital environment for Muslims — not as isolation from the world, but as high-quality alternatives where our audience has real needs: communication, education, family, privacy, financial tools, and everyday utilities.
Inside the product
I try to remain more than a manager. I want to understand the product from the inside: discuss the logic, test solutions, work with technical constraints, and listen to users directly. I prefer a builder mindset — fewer speeches about entrepreneurship, more real launches, mistakes, fixes, and new attempts.
What I build
Six directions the ecosystem grows in. Each one answers a need people actually have, not a trend.
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Communication
Social products and everyday communication
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Family
Getting acquainted for nikah
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Knowledge
Islamic education and access to sources
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Utility
Everyday tools that save time
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Privacy
Privacy and secure access
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Finance & Muamalat
Financial tools and contract review
Projects
Ten products people use every day — from a social network to prayer times and contract review.
Currently in the works
Two more products are on the way. I post launches in the Telegram channel — they appear there before the site.
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In progress
Khandaq
A secure messenger: messages travel straight between devices, with no server in the middle.
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In progress
Hadith Lab
A hadith library: 8,600 books, 3,190 authors and more than 15,000 narrators, searchable by chain of transmission.
How I work
I identify more with a builder than a public “guru.” I prefer to test ideas quickly, build a prototype, put it in front of real users, listen to feedback, and improve the product. Sometimes an idea does not work — that is part of the process too.
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Idea
Usually a problem I keep running into myself.
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Prototype
A working version fast — not a deck about it.
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Launch
Real users, in public, with all the rough edges.
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Feedback
Fix, rebuild — and sometimes shut it down.
What I write about
My Telegram channel is where the work gets documented as it happens — including the parts that did not work out.
- AI in practice
- Product: from idea to launch
- Servers, infrastructure, security
- Muslim Tech
- Entrepreneurship without the hype
- My own mistakes, in detail
- Behind the scenes of my projects
- Dagestan, family, travel
FAQ
Umma Life is a global social network for Muslims: communication, communities, video and content. It has been running since 2020 and is the flagship of the ecosystem, with apps for iOS and Android and a web version.
Ten products across six directions: communication, family, knowledge, everyday utilities, privacy and finance. Umma Nikah for marriage, Mizan for contract review, plus Daleel, HalalTools, Namaz Time, Islamic Quizzes, Umm al-Kitab, MyCitadel VPN and tPayer. Most of them live inside Telegram; the larger ones have their own apps and websites.
Muslim Tech is not about isolating anyone from the rest of the internet. It is about building good alternatives where our audience has a real need that existing services do not cover: marriage with a mahram involved, access to sources, prayer times, privacy. If a general-purpose product already does the job well, I do not build a copy of it.
Most of them are free. Three are paid because they cost money to run: MyCitadel VPN works on a subscription, tPayer charges a fee per transaction, and in Umma Nikah the first chat is free while the next ones are paid — for sisters the service stays free. The free products are funded by me and by Umma Life.
Privacy is a product decision, not a slogan. Daleel works offline after the first load and stores nothing. In Umma Nikah contacts stay hidden by default, and photos in a chat can be set to burn after viewing. MyCitadel VPN exists for the same reason — that is the part of the ecosystem built specifically around private access.
I grew up in Khasavyurt, Dagestan. For more than twelve years Türkiye has been my second home, and that is where I build and run the products.
Umma Life is built by a team. The smaller products I often put together myself — that is exactly why I stay close to the code and to the people using it.
Yes. I invested in Umma Life from the very first day and stay involved in it. Building with my own resources keeps my interests aligned with the community the platform serves.
These are two different things. The channel @isa_dagestan is where I write — it is public and I do not follow the comments there. For collaboration, product questions or media, message @isa_dagestani directly and put the details in your first message.
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