https://ziad.us Projects, writing, and experiments by Ziad Aloush. en https://ziad.us/work/trafi https://ziad.us/work/trafi Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A static privacy calculator that shows users how much their personal data is worth to advertisers, calculated from real published ARPU rates in SEC filings. Select 62 platforms across 10 categories, enter demographics and interests, receive an animated price-tag reveal and a shareable receipt-style sticker. https://ziad.us/work/lifeinweeks https://ziad.us/work/lifeinweeks Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A life-visualization tool that renders your life as a grid of weeks — 52 across, 80 down — with the passed weeks filled, the current week highlighted, and the rest ahead of you. A reimplementation of the classic Wait But Why idea with a type-forward, minimalist build. https://ziad.us/work/corecash https://ziad.us/work/corecash Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A standalone core-deposit tracker for independent auto repair shops — the people who pay $20-$300 every time they swap a remanufactured part, and lose $200-$500 a month when they forget to return the old core in time. https://ziad.us/work/kanz https://ziad.us/work/kanz Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mobile app for UAE Muslims who want to track gold, silver, stocks, and crypto in AED and know exactly when — and how much — Zakat they owe. Camera-first receipt entry via AI OCR, live UAE retail gold prices, per-asset hawl tracking, offline-first. https://ziad.us/work/uos-parking https://ziad.us/work/uos-parking Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT A real-time, bilingual parking signal board for the University of Sharjah. Students post LEAVING / FREE / NEED against specific zones and building sides; everyone else sees fresh signals within seconds. No accounts, no PII, no profit. https://ziad.us/work/sushinow-backend https://ziad.us/work/sushinow-backend Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT An end-to-end ordering platform for SushiNow: customers order from the app, the kitchen runs the ticket, delivery is tracked in real time, and payments, invoices, and wallets all settle behind one roof. Every part of the flow lives in one system. https://ziad.us/work/places https://ziad.us/work/places Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Designed and built the consumer-facing web experience — landing page, discovery interface, and business-partnership surface — for a Dubai AI engine that recommends restaurants. End-to-end from Figma to Angular to the live API. https://ziad.us/work/vistra https://ziad.us/work/vistra Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT An AI-assisted foresight engine for global trade. Feeds real-time web intelligence into an LLM reasoning layer, surfaces patterns and risks across markets, and exports government-ready PDF briefs in one click. https://ziad.us/work/banders-potato-app https://ziad.us/work/banders-potato-app Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A bilingual restaurant app for a UAE chain with a dynamic menu, branch mapping, push-notified offers, a loyalty-point system that converts to coupons, and in-app mini-games that actually get played. https://ziad.us/work/automated-review-system https://ziad.us/work/automated-review-system Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT A deep-learning NLP system that reads resident feedback on urban-development projects, scores priority and sentiment, and clusters issues for decision-makers. Peer-reviewed and published in the Smart and Sustainable Built Environment journal. https://ziad.us/work/malware-detection-cnn https://ziad.us/work/malware-detection-cnn Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Research collaboration with a cybersecurity professor: encode runtime API-call sequences from binaries into image-like tensors, then feed them into a CNN to classify malware vs. goodware. https://ziad.us/work/edumentor https://ziad.us/work/edumentor Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A personalized tutoring app for Health and Nutrition students: quizzes are generated on-demand by GPT against the current syllabus chapter, the app tracks per-chapter scores, and targeted exercises drill the weakest areas — no generic question banks. https://ziad.us/work/sejda-space https://ziad.us/work/sejda-space Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A calm, offline-first Islamic companion app: the full Quran readable without a connection, audio recitation from multiple qaris, GPS + compass Qibla locator, Hadith library, and multilingual UI. Built to be the one app on the phone that doesn't need anything else to work. https://ziad.us/work/wheel-of-balance https://ziad.us/work/wheel-of-balance Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A web app that renders your life as a radar chart across axes you define — health, career, relationships, whatever you care about — and pairs each with goals, action items, and a progress history you can actually see.