Category: Work

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, investment could not have come at a more critical time. If it were a month…

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 the ICC Twenty20 World Cup were going viral on Twitter and elsewhere and must have…

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 video and audio capture are very clunky, slow and CPU-intensive. After burning through a couple…

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 we’ve already hit 100,000 users. And keeping pace with that sort of demand is proving…

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?) to Cricingif; the opportunity is too exciting to pass up. Here’s why: Based on my…

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 I should join up with a team of senior developers working on a community-backed blood…

When I first pitched the ride sharing idea that is now Savaree at the Lahore Civic Hackathon, I was emphatically encouraged by tech industry bigwigs to pursue it as a serious carpool venture. I was in my final year of college with a knack for tinkering and hacks, numerous examples of people my age ‘making…

Our backend lead has left for a lucrative job in Dubai, but we are moving onward. I don’t have much software engineering experience so I’m building our tech with Parse as a backend-as-a-service in JavaScript together with a client android app for beta testing. We’ve brought two additional developers into the Savaree team to help…