Why I built PrayN.
I missed Asr again last week. Not because I didn't care. Because my phone — the thing that was supposed to remind me — kept stealing my attention. Five athan apps. Three Islamic reminder apps. None of them worked, because the same screen that pings me to pray pings me about everything else. By the time I looked up, the window had passed.
I'm not unique in this. Talk to almost any Muslim under forty and you'll hear some version of the same story: the phone is supposed to help us pray on time, and the phone is the reason we don't.
So I started designing something else. A wearable that does one job — keep prayer at the center of the day — and stays quiet otherwise. No feed. No notifications you have to dismiss. No screen that pulls you into anything other than wudu.
Two years of prototyping later, PrayN works. I've worn the latest revision for six months. I've stopped missing prayers. My wife uses one. My brother uses one. It's not magic — it's just a wrist tap five minutes before every salah, and somehow that small thing changes the day.
The hard part now is manufacturing. I went to investors first. Three of them. All passed. So I'm coming to you instead. If this resonates — back the campaign on Kickstarter. Help me get this into the world.




