I Dropped Out of A-Levels. Here’s How I Built an EV App Using AI in 5 Months. ft. Fahad Hassan | TBT

Makes sense.

What's your, what's your traction right now in terms of the users, in terms of daily usage and stuff like that?

So we, we are almost about to reach, uh, 6,000 users in close to three months.

Mm-hmm.

That's the whole number, right? Our daily हमारे at least we get 1,000, uh, you know, users almost, you know who are actively using the app.

And we have a 60% you know week-by-week retention as well on the app.

So returning users जो हैं who are coming back to our app.

Nice.

So yeah that's a-- look for a Pakistani app that's a pretty good number, um, you know for us.

So yeah.

Makes sense.

And उसके अलावा, yeah.

In terms of the development-

Mm-hmm

... how much did AI aid you in developing this? Like for example, if let's say AI-led development अगर ना होती, do you think you sh-you still would have been able to do this in five months? The uh-

बहुत मुश्किल होता

... multi-platform omni-channel, uh, approach that you had.

No, no.

It would have had been very difficult.

So obviously, you know AI helped me a lot in this। वरना तो because obviously you have to have like a huge team, right? But again एक चीज इसमें यह भी करूंगा somebody who hasn't had experience in this field, जिसको ना know-how होती, वो on its own ना कर सकता है AI से। I have around like 15 साल का experience जिसकी वजह से I was able to even use AI to you know create something like this, right? And obviously उसको market करना, लोगों की psyche समझना कि लोगों को you know क्या पसंद है, क्या नहीं है and obviously I've worked as a designer as well in you know early parts of my career। तो मुझे पता था you know कि कौन simple रखना है, ज्यादा you know-

Hmm

... and obviously मैंने उसमें app को it's ad free, it's completely free.

You know मैंने कुछ इसके अंदर ads कुछ भी नहीं लगाए। You know you've seen annoying apps होती हैं जिसमें every few seconds pop-ups आते हैं and all that.

I was like, नहीं you know I would rather you know pay out of my own pocket for the database and everything but मैं इसको annoying app नहीं बनाऊंगा। You know that, that's what I want.

I want it to look, look like a premium app। क्योंकि जो लोग use भी कर रहे हैं app को you know they are obviously spending so much on expensive cars they want like a seamless experience.

Makes sense.

What's your, what's your traction right now in terms of the users, in terms of daily usage and stuff like that?

So we, we are almost about to reach, uh, 6,000 users in close to three months.

Mm-hmm.

That's the whole number, right? Our daily हमारे at least we get 1,000, uh, you know, users almost, you know who are actively using the app.

And we have a 60% you know week-by-week retention as well on the app.

So returning users जो हैं who are coming back to our app.

Nice.

So yeah that's a-- look for a Pakistani app that's a pretty good number, um, you know for us.

So yeah.

Makes sense.

And उसके अलावा, yeah.

In terms of the development-

Mm-hmm

... how much did AI aid you in developing this? Like for example, if let's say AI-led development अगर ना होती, do you think you sh-you still would have been able to do this in five months? The uh-

बहुत मुश्किल होता

... multi-platform omni-channel, uh, approach that you had.

No, no.

It would have had been very difficult.

So obviously, you know AI helped me a lot in this। वरना तो because obviously you have to have like a huge team, right? But again एक चीज इसमें यह भी करूंगा somebody who hasn't had experience in this field, जिसको ना know-how होती, वो on its own ना कर सकता है AI से। I have around like 15 साल का experience जिसकी वजह से I was able to even use AI to you know create something like this, right? And obviously उसको market करना, लोगों की psyche समझना कि लोगों को you know क्या पसंद है, क्या नहीं है and obviously I've worked as a designer as well in you know early parts of my career। तो मुझे पता था you know कि कौन simple रखना है, ज्यादा you know-

Hmm

... and obviously मैंने उसमें app को it's ad free, it's completely free.

You know मैंने कुछ इसके अंदर ads कुछ भी नहीं लगाए। You know you've seen annoying apps होती हैं जिसमें every few seconds pop-ups आते हैं and all that.

I was like, नहीं you know I would rather you know pay out of my own pocket for the database and everything but मैं इसको annoying app नहीं बनाऊंगा। You know that, that's what I want.

I want it to look, look like a premium app। क्योंकि जो लोग use भी कर रहे हैं app को you know they are obviously spending so much on expensive cars they want like a seamless experience.