We love to see cool tech built for an Islamic purpose!
Web app for hifdh -
You go to a blank page of the Qur'an and whilst revising, you forget a word but don't want to see the whole ayah. Tap the word to see then it disappears and you can carry on
We wrapped up day 1 of our
#HackForGaza
. 160+ techies and creatives, 29 teams from 22 countries 🚀
The teams spent the day building the foundations and ideating around our 4 themes;
BDS, Political Accountability, Information Accuracy and Education & Awareness 🙌
The situation in Gaza is heartbreaking. We can't stand idly by
Donate your skills for good and join us this weekend for an Emergency Hackathon
📅 Oct 21-22, 2023
⏰ 9am-6pm (GMT)
📍 London / Hybrid
🚨 Application Deadline: Oct 20, 11:59pm
✍️ Sign up at
Alhamdullilah Day 1 of our first hackathon, run in collaboration with the Muslim Youth Network, is well under way!
The teams have come up with some great ideas and are busy coding away
5 practical tips and on how you can reduce your data footprint and protect yourself from malicious actors 💻
These tips were curated with the help of experts from within the Deen Developers community!
Check out the tips below 👇
Introducing… 🥁 FORGE.
A founder-first programme, seeking ambitious early-stage Muslim founders and problem solvers.
Apply now
Here’s what you can expect… 🧵
Check out our short video to see the impact our community has made this year 🚀
Thank you to everyone who's supported us in 2020! 🙌
Get involved by signing up to our community at
Eid Mubarak from the Deen Developers team! 🙌
Taqabbalallahu Minna Wa Minkum (May Allah accept from you and us)
Please keep us and the oppressed in your duas! 🤲
Day 2 of our
#HackForGaza
has come to a close 🥳
The teams were working hard and building at pace from 9am to 6pm BST
They'll continue to build during the week nights, working up to the demo night next Sunday 🚀
Our Accelerator Programme for early stage & under-represented founders is here 🥳
💰 Equity-free funding
🚀 Successful founders as mentors
⚒️ Tailored workshops
💸 Access to investors
Apply now at
That’s a wrap on the Deen Developers Hack for Gaza 🇵🇸
Thank you to everyone who took part and showed support.
We’re proud to have been able to deliver so much in such a short amount of time.
@MuslimCensus
@HulmClub
@muzz_app
@FriendsofAlAqsa
We've teamed up with
@VSfromCrisis
to run a hackathon to help tackle homelessness 🙌
We're looking for techies and creatives to come forward and use their skills to help make a difference and have an impact
Play your part and sign up at 🚀
Today’s news in the Muslim tech community highlights the importance of organisations having principled and thoughtful policies around privacy and data that reflects the commitment of trust users have placed upon them
An amazing day of planning the year ahead with the Deen Developers team 🥳
We're super excited about implementing our vision and bringing you all along for the journey 🙌
Our next event is here 🤩
Breaking Into Tech! — come & meet a panel of designers, product managers, engineers + data scientists
> Career switching insights 😃
> Free food + networking 🤝🍕
✍️ Register now at
📍 Hosted by
@TwitterUK
🗓️ 13th October
Announcing our Tech Careers Month 2021 👩💻👨🔧
Join us for a month of events to learn more about different tech roles from members of our community to help kickstart your career!
We’re exploring technical and non-technical roles so share and sign up at
The developers over at
@Tarteel_io
have just introduced some amazing new features on their app
Including AI memorisation, using artificial intelligence to only reveal the ayat after you've recited it!
Check out their article on medium in sha Allah
IT'S DEMO DAY 🚀🚀🚀🚀
We're on the final day of our 7-week Buildathon BATCH 2.
Teams have been building, shipping, pivoting, getting roasted for seven weeks straight and now it's time to show what they've been up to 🔥
🧵 Follow this thread for updates throughout the day!
Last year was a difficult but incredible year!
From hackathons to accelerator programmes, we at Deen Developers got up to a lot 🚀
Check out the video to see our highlights and what we achieved in 2021 🔥
Deen Developers would like to wish you all Eid Mubarak! 🙌
Taqabbalallahu Minna Wa Minkum (May Allah accept from you and us)
We hope you have a great day with friends and family
Please keep us and the oppressed in your duas!
The Deen Developers Podcast has officially landed 🥳
For our first episode:
“How I accidentally founded a $10 million start-up”, we're learning from
@IsmailJeilani
, Co-founder of Scoodle & Ex-Googler 🙌
Listen to the full episode 🔊:
The Deen Developers merch store is here! 🥳
We'll be donating 100% of profits to building homes in Yemen through
@One_NationUK
during Ramadan
We're also giving away 3 FREE hoodies, all you have to do to enter is follow us and retweet this tweet
👉
Alhamdullilah the highlight video from our first hackathon is here!
To keep up to date with whats going on and any up coming events taking place, please do fill in the Google form to join our Slack work space:
We realised that there wasn't a place for developers to give back to the Muslim community in a collaborative way .. so we decided to create one!
Our aim is simple; to create good tech and benefit the Muslim community along the way. Stay tuned for future events and announcements
Want to spend your time more productively? Want to use your skills to benefit the community?
Deen Developers present
#TheCommunityHack
- a remote hackathon to build solutions for problems caused by COVID
Check out our site to learn how to get involved!
🚀 Our next hackathon with
@DeafblindUK
, sponsored by
@AzizFndn
is here!
🧏 Sensory loss affects over 30 million people in the UK
📆 Join us at the end of this month as we build solutions to support the deaf blind community
🔗 Sign up now at
We wrapped up the first event of our "Why I Built This" series with
@SadiqDorasat
🥳
A big thank you to Sadiq for sharing gems and life lessons from his journey, and a big thank you to everyone who came down
Keep an eye out for who our next inspirational guest is 🚀
Food insecurity is on the rise
We spent the last few weeks with foodbanks to better understand the problems they and those in food poverty are facing
Use your skills for good and join us at our next hackathon to help tackle these problems 🚀
Sign up at
Late last week our friends over at
@islamicgps
and
@HaramainInfo
got in touch with us asking if we could help mosques open up safely post lockdown
We reached out to our community and in less than a week, we put together a team and began development of the web app 🚀
Salah Space is a free platform for people to book prayer slots at their local mosque and for mosques to manage their prayers safely during COVID-19!
This will allow for mosques to open up their doors in a safe and secure manner 🕌
Register your mosque at
Deen Developers NFTs 🤩🚀
As a special surprise we’re delighted to announce that we have produced a unique first edition set of eco-friendly NFTs to commemorate the Hackathon for the Deafblind Community which will be shared with all Hack participants
Always wondered what the first things you should do when changing jobs and starting at a new company? 💼
Check out the advice from the DD slack community 👇👇
What's one tip or piece of advice you have for new joiners? Let us know in the replies!
Day 2 of the hackathon!
The teams are done coding and are ready to start presenting. Some really great ideas and products have been developed alhamdullilah!
Our next event is here 🥳
Fireside chat with Yasmin Abedin, Product Manager at
@Google
They'll be free food and a chance to network with others in the community 🚀
✍️ Sign up:
🗓️ When: 27th September
📍 Where:
@Reply_UK
offices
Siraat - Seerah app for Everyday Muslims
- Bite sized + digestible pace through the Seerah that you can pickup at any time and progress bit by bit
- Quizzes to aid you in your learning + memorisation
- Beautiful artwork 😍 accompanied with each chapter
Join the waitlist!
Tomorrow is a full day of building and we can't wait to show you what the teams from around the world are working on 🔥
A big thank you to our inspirational teams from Malaysia, North Africa, West Africa, Uzbekistan, Middle East and North America for working on UK time 🙌
Tech Careers Month kicks off with our Engineering event!
Join us to explore a range of topics around a career as a software engineer 🚀
Our speakers will be covering:
• Graduates 🎓
• Startups 👨🔧
• Big Tech 📱
• Fullstack 🥞
• And more!
Sign up at
Yesterday we wrapped up the first day of our Hackathon for Food Poverty 🥳
The teams were introduced to the problem statements, got to know their teams and began ideating around what solution they'll be building next week ⚒️
Big thank you to
@accuRx
@AzizFndn
@Spotproject_
🙌
We've got an amazing line up of speakers for our next event - Inspirational People in Tech: Start up Founders 🙌
Join us to hear about their start up journeys and experiences. Each speaker will also be giving a short talk on a set topic 🚀
Sign up at -
Salah Space was built in order to allow for people to pray Salah safely at their local mosques
Alhamdullilah since our launch, they've been 54,393 bookings for jummuah through our platform 🥳🎉
Yesterday's event hosted at
@forduk
was inspiring to say the least 🙌
Ustadh Salman shared lessons he learnt from studying in Syria, working as a lawyer and starting up
@primary_finance
. He also gave advice on how to find purpose through our careers ♥️
This Ramadhan, the Deen Developers community were able to raise £9,300+ to build homes for those displaced in Yemen🏠🇾🇪
Of that total, £1,070 worth of sales came from our merch store () with 100% of profits going to the cause 👕🥳
Thank you to everyone!
A big thank you to everyone who made the Islamic Education Hackathon happen this weekend!
It is honestly amazing to see what can be achieved when we collaborate together and work on something greater for the community
@MuslamicMakers
@makersacademy
@adaventures
Last month we spoke to 160+
@UKMuslimScout
explorers about getting in tech!
This weekend we're running a coding bootcamp with
@AzizFndn
for 14-18 year olds to give them a taste of what coding is and to teach them the fundamentals 🔥🚀
We're using
@Replit
as our code editor 😍
And we’re live 🚀🚀🚀
We’ll be using this thread to live tweet Pitch Night so definitely get involved using the hashtag
#HackathonForHomelessness
Tune in to the livestream at
We’re only 30 minutes away from pitch night with
@VSfromCrisis
Here’s how to get involved:
📺 watch the livestream at
🗣 Ask questions at with code 2058 2524
✍️ Tweet using the hashtag
#HackathonForHomelessness
Food poverty is a poverty problem and its systemic. Until the government takes action, the problem will persist
But we, at
@DeenDevelopers
, want to do our part in making the job of food banks easier
That's why our next Hackathon will be around tackling food poverty in the UK 🙏
Our next event is here 🥳 and yes you guessed it, it's all about AI!
Fireside chat with
@QasimMunye
, Founder of Shortly
🗓️ Wednesday 16th November
📌 Hosted by
@quantumblack
, AI by McKinsey
As always there'll be free food + networking 🚀
✍️ Sign up now
The teams are working hard at our
#HackathonForHomelessness
with
@VSfromCrisis
, sponsored by
@Dynatrace
🙌
Come and join us at our pitch night to see how the teams used their skills to build solutions and help tackle homelessness!
📅 29th March @ 7pm
✍️
Alhamdulilah we've made the Final20 for the GMW Continuum Spark award, but we need your help to make the next round 🥳
If you resonate with our vision then vote for us below by scrolling down and tapping the heart icon next to Deen Developers 👇
Alhamdullilah back in Ramadhan, we fundraised to help build a water irrigation system in Malawi 🙌
We raised £10,804 and the system has now been built, a little bit of Deen Developers is now in Malawi 🚀
Thank you to everyone who donated!
Learn about careers in Data straight from the experts 🗂📚
We have an exciting set of talks from 3 fantastic speakers lined up for the
#DDCareers
data event 💻🗓
Sign up now at
Eid Mubarak from the Deen Developers team! 🙌
Taqabbalallahu Minna Wa Minkum (May Allah accept from you and us)
Please keep us and the oppressed in your duas! 🤲
Our first event of the year is here! 🥳
Fireside chat with Salman Hasan, Co-founder of Primary Finance + Arabica Institute
🗓️ Wednesday 8th February
📌 Hosted by Ford — London, UK
As always there'll be free food + networking 🚀
✍️ Reserve your spot at
Buildathon Batch 2 has officially kicked off 🔥
20 teams busy validating and building their ideas over a 7-week programme.
Keep an eye out to hear more about the builders and what they're shipping 🚀
Inspired by his curiosity + passion for tinkering with the bleeding edge of tech.
@QasimMunye
packed out the room with his story of exiting Shortly. A true builder at heart.
Jzk to everyone in the community who came down + benefitted! Big thanks again to the team
@quantumblack
.
Always wanted to build out your ideas but never had the time or the accountability to deliver?
Build your tech for good ideas at our first Buildathon - a weekend driven by accountability + shipping goals 🔥
👉 apply at
🤝 hosted by
@DeloitteDigital
We're back with another Twitter Space hosted by
@yusufcodes
, & joined by
@parulsingh1995
+
@chris_cooney
talking about:
"How to Stand Out When Applying For Your First Developer Job"
Tap below to set a reminder for when we go live!
Last week we sent out The
#4
Deen Developers Newsletter 🥳🚀
Featuring our
#HackathonForHomeless
wrap up, our Slack digest, community spotlight
@ThePillarsApp
, meme of the month and more 🙌
Check it out:
Sign up to our newsletter:
Introducing the first founder in our Forge Spotlight Series💡
Meet
@ygnassim
, CEO and Founder of Amana - a smart sadaqah app that makes charitable giving easy and impactful.
We're excited to have Yusuf as part of our Forge Programme and can't wait to see
@theamanaapp
grow!
One of the ways that we plan on achieving our goal of creating good tech and benefiting the Muslim community is by running hackathons!
Hackathons are a great way to improve collaboration and innovation amongst devs
Read the tweets below on details of how you can get involved!
We've confirmed the speakers for our upcoming 2020 Year in Review event 🙌
Hear engineers, architects and product managers from our community speak about the DD projects they've worked on and what they've learnt 🚀
Sign up at:
The final event of
#DDCareers
is all about the wonderful world of UI, UX & Design 🎨👩🎨
We have a fantastic range of talks lined up covering some really interesting topics 👨💻✍️
Make sure to share and sign up at
Qurani — Accessible Qur'an
- Existing Qur'an apps are not accessible for Neurodiverse users and try to do too much
- Web app for Accessible Qur'an
- Prioritises immersion and comprehension catering to individuals with reading challenges such as ADHD, Dyslexia, and more!
We've got a new look! 🔥
Re-introducing Deen Developers - a tech for good community where people donate their skills to solve real world problems 🌍
Check out our new landing page and what we've been up to 👇
Salah Sync
A simple web app that integrates with Google calendar to intelligently schedule your prayers into your work day. Salah Sync slots in these prayers based on local prayer times and around any meetings or events you may have during the day
We've teamed up with our friends over at
@MuslamicMakers
to run an event around low code and no code 🥳
Hear from our amazing speakers about how they've used platforms like
@bubble
to solve problems and build solutions in no time 🚀
The first evening of our remote hackathon is over!
The teams got together for the Kick off which was then followed by two talks - How to Hackathon and Human Centric Design
The night ended with the teams brainstorming and picking an idea to work on for the next few days!
Deen Developers would like to wish you all Eid Mubarak!
Taqabbalallahu Minna Wa Minkum (May Allah accept from you and us)
We hope you have a great day with friends and family
Please keep us and the Ummah in your duas!
Islamic History Augmented Reality App
An iOS app built to teach young children about Islamic history in an interactive and immersive manner using augmented reality. The app has quizzes built so the children can test their new found knowledge as well
Eid Mubarak from the Deen Developers team! 🕋
May Allah SWT accept all your good deeds 🤲
Please keep us and the oppressed around the world in your duas!
Deen Developers are expanding out the team!
If you’re interested, want to build out your non-techie skills, build a means of sadaqah jaariyah for yourself as well as shape for the future of the network, let us know and register your interest!
The second event in our Why I Built This series is here 🥳
We've got Angelina as our guest to tell us more about
@auralyze_ai
, her journey as a founder backed by
@Techstars
and her digital nomad life 🚀
Get your tickets here 👇
Last Wednesday, Deen Developers teamed up with
@MuslamicMakers
to hold an event at
@GoogleStartupUK
With over 70 people attending and over 800 views on our live stream, the feedback and support has been immense!
Check out our post on LinkedIn:
We reached out to our community and teamed up with
@islamicgps
to help combat food poverty in the UK during COVID-19
The team are doing amazing work to make
@foodpot_
a reality and bring it to life in time for the Christmas break 🚀
We've been working hard behind the scenes to bring
@foodpot_
to life - a digital food bank to help those in need order free meals from their local food centres or mosques 🙌
We'll be launching in December 2020, check out our design in progress in the mean time! 🍴
In the coming weeks, we will be running sessions and providing more information on how users can take measures to protect themselves as well as furthering discussion with developers within our community around this very topic
Pluralsight are making their courses free for the month of April
No excuses to not learn how to code during this quarantine now, check out the links in the tweet below!
We’re all in this together. We're making all of our 7,000+ expert-led video courses FREE for the entire month of April. No catches, no credit card required.
#FreeApril
#StayHome
The winning idea - Semantic Search for Scripture
An artificial intelligence powered search engine for the Qur'an and the six canonical collections of hadith using cutting-edge NLP algorithms.
Do checkout their presentation:
Had a blast at our first in-person social for Forge last Thursday!
Our startup founders got to meet each other and some special guests.
Stay tuned for upcoming posts next week to get to know our selected founders and join us on their journey!🚀
First up!
Quizzy — AI Copilot for Tutors and Teachers
- Create never seen before past papers with generative AI
- Automatically mark papers + provide tailored feedback based on the mark scheme and student
- Design and build cohesive lessons from sources
Homelessness is more than just rough sleeping on the streets
The teams at our
#HackathonForHomelessness
are working on solutions to help tackle homelessness and support the great work
@crisis_uk
do 🙌⚡️
Sign up to our pitch night and see the team demos:
In February, we're delivering a talk on pursuing tech as career to 150+ young explorers at the next
@UKMuslimScout
camp ⛺🔥
We'd love to hear from you!
Why did you jump into the the world of tech and why should teenagers do so too? Any advice you'd like to share? 👇
Our next Buildathon batch is here!
Applications are now OPEN for Batch 2 🚀 at
👉
Build out your ideas (new or existing) over 7 weeks surrounded by others doing the same, with all the support you need 🚀
Apply early!
We're coming to Central Asia! 🚀
Join us for the Hajj & Umrah Hackathon on July 27-28 in 🇰🇿
Ready to make a difference and impact the lives of thousands of pilgrims? Help build products that enhance the Hajj and Umrah experience.
📅 27, 28 July
📍 Almaty, Nur-Mubarak
We at Deen Developers are so excited to announce our second Hackathon, run in collaboration with
@MuslamicMakers
at
@MakersAcademy
!
Please do check out our website and sign up to take part in sha Allah
We've had an amazing 7 weeks with the start ups on our Accelerator Programme 🚀
We've taken them through mentoring sessions, workshops and now it's time for Pitch Night! 🙌
👉 Come and join us to hear their exciting pitches, get your ticket at