Assalamualaikum,

I’ve been building a platform called Khidma focused on connecting Muslims to qualified scholars and Islamic psychologists for real-life issues, to realize that need for what we are building is larger than what we anticipated!

Access to reliable Islamic guidance is still very broken:

• Online advice is often generic, out of context, or unverified
• Local scholars are hard to access, time-constrained, or not approachable for sensitive issues (especially for women)
• Friends/family advice is often culturally biased and lacks privacy

What we built

We focused on solving this through direct access, not content:

• Free Q&A (audio responses) Users ask questions → scholars respond with 3–4 min answers → 1000+ questions answered so far
• Paid 1:1 sessions For deeper issues (marriage, mental health, personal struggles) → 180+ paid sessions in ~4 months

What we’re seeing

• Strong demand for personalized guidance, not generic content
• Clear overlap between Islamic guidance + mental health
• Users are willing to pay for trust + privacy + clarity

Would love input on

• AI: Does it belong here at all? If yes, where does it actually add value without harming trust (triage, summaries, matching, etc)?
• Product direction: Is it worth building a full app at this stage, or better to stay lean (web + WhatsApp) and double down on service?

Would really appreciate thoughts from anyone building in this space or working on D2C service-heavy products.

JazakAllah khair

Asalamu aleykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, I have created a little side project: https://ilmarena.co.uk/

The aim of the website is to make learning the deen engaging, especially for the younger generation who are used to dopamine heavy content.

The site works as: User chooses age range (which changes the question difficulty), User chooses solo or duo play, duo play is designed for phone/ipad/tablet settings where they would place it between each of them, first of the two players to tap the correct answer gets to play a mini game, within the mini game they can earn points for example 1 mini game is a shoot the moving target with an arrow. If they hit the bullseye they will receive 5 points, hitting the target alone would be 1 and not hitting would be 0. First to 15 points wins.

The questions revolve around the basics of Aqidah and Fiqh.

Tech Stack: Flask (don't judge my terrible choice ahaha), javascript (game logic, UI), Docker, deployed using AWS lightsail currently (I understand the lack of ownership and elasticity with this but was the cheapest option), basic monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana.

Beyond this I know I need to increase my question bank and consult scholars to check, perhaps add some background sound however I am not sure what I'd add as I don't want to add the Quran especially if it will not be listened too attentively, perhaps a poem like the poem which made Imam Ahmad cry? Think about accounts too, however perhaps accounts will remove the ease of picking up a tablet and playing.

I'd love any honest feedback as this was just an evening build and any feature ideas.

JazakAllahu Kheyran.