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2026.09.28Someone in my villageFour products in motion, three in the App Store, and who they're actually for.4 min2026.09.17I keep opening the studio and finding more roomsRound Table Draft got approved. Saman Pantry is in App Review. H.I.M. shipped 2.4. Setboard is the fourth product, still building. I also redesigned samaan.tech. This is what that stretch actually looked like.4 min2026.06.09The Pantry App Was Never Really About the PantryIt started as a kitchen inventory app. It became a way to capture family recipes before they disappear, and to cook the food we are afraid of forgetting.5 min2026.06A Family Recipe Is Not a Recipe CardThe follow-up to the pantry note: why the unit of memory cannot be a recipe card, and what it means to treat a family recipe as a living record you can cook from and correct.5 min2026.06.08What's the deal with samaan.tech?A place for the products I am building, the design choices behind them, and the ideas that keep refusing to leave me alone.6 min
I build things I need to exist in the world.
Haaris · Founder · Orlando
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