Amān is ready - testers needed
Short one today, and a bit of a personal one.
For a while now I've been building something called Amān, and it's reached the stage where it's real enough to put in front of people - but rough enough that we need those people to be patient with it. So this is both an introduction and an ask.
Here's the problem Amān is trying to solve.
If you've ever seriously thought about hijrah (actually relocating your family to a Muslim-majority country), you know the decision is a mess. Not because there's too little information, but because there's too much, and none of it is yours. Cost of living, safety, schooling for the kids, whether you can even get a visa, distance from family, the masjid situation, job prospects… it all matters, but it doesn't all matter equally, and it doesn't matter the same to you as it does to the next family. One person's dealbreaker is another person's minor inconvenience, and that's before you factor in that you and your spouse might be weighing the whole thing differently without ever saying so out loud.
Amān is a decision-making tool for exactly that mess. You set weights (how much something matters to you), and Amān takes your inputs and ranks the options for you. No pretending there's one objectively "best" country; just a clear picture based on what you actually care about.
The part I'm most attached to: spouses can score independently, then compare. So instead of a vague dinner-table argument that goes in circles, you get to see precisely where you two diverge; maybe you're weighing career and your wife is weighing proximity to family, and now that's visible and discussable instead of simmering. It turns a hard conversation into a clear one. That, honestly, is the feature I use the most with my spouse.
Now the honest part.
Amān is in closed testing, on Android only for now (iOS will follow at a later stage إن شاء الله). That means it works, but it's not polished; you'll find rough edges, awkward bits, maybe the odd bug. That's exactly what this stage is for. I'm not looking for people to admire a finished product, I'm looking for a handful of people who are actually thinking about hijrah, who'll use the thing for real, and who'll tell me honestly what's confusing, what's missing, and what's broken. That feedback is worth more to me right now than any amount of polite praise.
If that's you, I'd love to have you in.
How to join:
- Fill in this short form.
- I'll add your email to the tester list manually - so there may be a short wait, this isn't instant, please bear with me.
- Once you're added, you'll get access to install it and can start using it straight away.
One small note: it has to be the email attached to your Google Play account, otherwise the access won't reach you. And because I'm adding testers by hand, spots are limited for now - I'd rather have a small group who'll actually use it and talk to me than a big list who won't.
If hijrah isn't on your radar but you know a family who's been going back and forth about it, forward this to them. That's genuinely the most useful thing you could do.
More on the why behind Amān (the whole thinking around hijrah as a real, practical decision rather than just a someday-dream) is coming in a separate post soon إن شاء الله.
JazakAllah khair to anyone who jumps in.
BarakAllah feekum.