Asif Alam · Lead Engineer

Writing

Notes from building products end to end: the parts that were hard.

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  1. 5 min readFleet

    Calls that ring when the app is closed

    How I built calling for Fleet: a real ring on a locked phone, one server function in charge of every call, and no phone number on either side.

  2. 5 min readPlate

    WhatsApp as a control panel

    Restaurant staff live in WhatsApp, not dashboards. So Plate lets them accept, decline or move a booking from a message, and makes sure a stale tap can't do what the dashboard wouldn't.