Qasim Zafar

I build technology to improve the world.
These are my thoughts.

  • This is a translation of the pamphlet titled “hurmat e masjid e Aqsa aur hamari zimmedari” by the Tanzeem e Islami, and words that I fully stand by. The words of the Most High: “And what is [the matter] with…

  • I met Mark Zuckerberg once. It was a bright fall afternoon in sleepy Palo Alto. A friend and I were sitting outside Port of Peri Peri, catching up, when a couple of plainclothes security guards walked by. A few moments…

  • It’s been a tough four months, with the uncertainty of the future bearing down upon us. Every day a stifling dread filled our workspace. We have been freelancing to pay the bills under the name of Lemotech Studios. For Cricingif,…

  • We have received a DMCA takedown notice on behalf of the International Cricket Council. Our Facebook and Twitter accounts are now suspended, and our website is offline. The reason must have been the Cricingif Twitter integration, our video clips of…

  • As I mentioned previously, at Cricingif we are focusing on building a fast, efficient play by play highlights platform. One of the bottlenecks we have been facing is video compression – some of the programs we have been using for…

  • An quick update from last time when we were just setting up Cricingif. We seem to have underestimated our premise that there would be a market for on-demand cricket coverage. Our platform’s users are growing extremely rapidly, in a month…

  • As you might know, I recently left my first company, Savaree. I’ve been working as an associate product manager at PakWheels.com, Pakistan’s largest used car classifieds. It’s only been a couple of months but I’ve switched yet again (bad move?)…

  • Beyond the low is a sweet, mellow high. Just left your previous job? Just graduated and nobody’s hiring? Or perhaps you decided to part with your previous business. There comes a time in everybody’s life when they are, for lack…

  • IN February of 2014, I walked into the Lahore Civic Hackathon organized by Code for Pakistan as a final-semester college student with no inkling of what was to come. Following the usual pitching round, I was confused as to whether…

  • Across this city, I have a friend Who cares not for fashion nor trend. One day he had this troubling epiphany That pierced through life’s cacophony, What chance befell the forts of yore, Long forgotten in all but lore? A…

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