What is the most exciting thing you’ve ever built?
Over this past year, I have spent over 800 hours working on 2 mobile apps: Exo and Orbit, and 400+ hours creating 25+ videos (while being a ft student & intern) Building in the consumer social space is very tough but I am determined to succeed. This is the impact that I love to create on this world: Empowering people to reach their full potential through:
- Helping them grow their social skills and have more confidence in themselves. But that takes a lot of effort and time. But it’s all about having a growth mindset. Which is what self-improvement and my YouTube videos are all about: https://youtube.com/@ramimaalouf
- Helping them maintain & grow their friendships/relationsips. This is why I’m building Exo: https://getexo.vercel.app
- Helping people find the perfect person to meet up with in whatever context. We’re building somewhat of a 4th dimension to the world where you bump into ppl who can transform ur life. This is Orbit: https://youtu.be/QI8HgFye-m0 (b4 pivot). During my most recent hackathon, I tested out an idea for orbit: automate everything standing between people and their perfect circle. (we won best use of AI) More info:
- https://devpost.com/software/orbit-w84iq1
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rami-m_aiagents-vectordb-ai-activity-7324825143568961536-VmTh Four months in, we pivoted after hitting major flaws, costing us hundreds of hours in refactoring. That experience, plus books like That Will Never Work taught me a big lesson: Don’t build things no one asked for Now I focus on validating ideas early and often and focus on growing a community of people who deeply care about what I’m building. I’m a true believer that bonding and connecting with people is the most important aspect of life. That’s what life is all about in my opinion. This is what fuels my purpose
- Orbit: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getorbitapp
- Orbit’s community: https://discord.gg/m9mWXcrstw
- Exo: https://getexo.vercel.app/
- Orbit Manifesto: https://youtu.be/vaBTLpGfVQE
- Orbit demo: https://youtu.be/QI8HgFye-m0 My university reached out to me to write an article & video about me:
- https://rami-maalouf.tech/uc-orbit-article
- https://rami-maalouf.tech/uc-orbit-vid
- https://photos.app.goo.gl/V2BrX1nzapNhVq7RA
- It led to a local news feature: https://rami-maalouf.tech/livewire