SALIM SIRAJ
A hackathon category win with AlgoWars, then ReadOnce, an AI reading companion built for people tired of juggling tabs.
Sharing my personal progress in the world of technology and self-development. Verily, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” (Qur’an 13:11)
The SALIM SIRAJ channel shares progress in tech and self-development, mostly in English with some Amharic. Expect beginner-friendly coding advice, like which 20% of programming to master first. The builds are real too: AlgoWars won its category at a hackathon in February 2026, and ReadOnce, an AI reading companion, arrived in July. In October the channel reached 300 subscribers, whom it calls Ahbab, and is now taking a SaaS product through deployment and testing for one of its first clients.
- 63 weeks in a row with at least one post, and the streak is still going.
- The channel's favorite word is "project".
- It averages 17.3 posts a week lately.
The journey.
- Nov – Dec 2025
- Feb 2026
One night, one hackathon
AlgoWars, a team project that turns coding and logic into a competitive strategy concept, is built at Vercel's Prompt to Production week in Addis Ababa. The channel rallies subscribers to vote, and by February 14 the team has won the Engineering category and the channel has passed 100 subscribers.
Sources#322#332#343#345 - Mar – May 2026
- Jun – Jul 2026
Ship week
A new week opens with a SaaS MVP being built, and its deploy slips to a Sunday. Two days later ReadOnce arrives, an AI reading companion born from juggling a dictionary, Google and extra tabs mid-book. The channel then asks readers whether it really solves their pain.
Sources#647#655#665#671 - Sep – Oct 2026
Their projects.
- AlgoWars
A team hackathon project that turns coding and logic into a competitive strategy concept; it won the Engineering category.
Launched9 postsFeb 2026– - ReadOnce
An AI reading companion for book readers: instant word explanations, images, maps and timelines inside the text, saved vocabulary and AI flashcards.
Launched2 postsJul 2026–
Start here.
- 01
The hackathon result: the team takes the Engineering category.
Ahbabi, Selamu Aleykum 🤍 Alhamdulillah, we won the hackathon in the Engineering category! At first, we thought the competition was general, but it was actual...
Feb 14, 20261.1K views - 02
Why ReadOnce exists, told through the tab-juggling problem it solves.
I loved reading… but I was always stuck. A word I didn’t know → dictionary A concept → Google A place → images A historical event → another tab And when I came...
Jul 5, 2026669 views - 03
Three lessons from six months of coding, including why asking good questions is a superpower.
Three main things that learned in the last 6 month of my coding journey First, you must become someone who can read code and understand it. You don’t need to m...
Mar 2, 2026212 views - 04
The 20% of programming worth mastering first, then build at least 10 projects.
So, here it is: the 80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle). 80% of your results come from just 20% of your efforts. Instead of trying to learn everything, focus on the...
May 4, 2026290 views - 05
Where the name Ahbab comes from, and what the channel plans next.
So Alhamdulillah, we have reached 300 Ahbab. I know most of you are confused about why I call my subscribers "Ahbab." They themselves chose this name last year...
Oct 25, 2026132 views
In their own words.
Reading felt like switching between apps just to understand one page.
Knowing how to ask the right question is a superpower.
Fresh from the channel.
So, ahbabi , every hundred as usual, we make an SMA. So, if we get 30 👍, I will make it for the second time. Let's see @salimsirajofficial
New week with good intention This week will be more intense. Currently working on a SaaS product, we should have to make it pass the deployment and testing stage and being applied in one of our first clients and finding an additional clien...
Here is the evidence I said I I will give the whole day, and he submitted it before 6:00 PM, so he got it so soon and will be rewarded. @salimsirajofficial
our winner Sultan Abdulhamid II (sep, 21, 1842 - 10 feb, 1918) He was the 34th sultan of ottoman empire. From 1876 - 1909.He oversaw a period of decline with rebellions. In his first years of ruling he spend with young ottomans by to make...
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So Alhamdulillah, we have reached 300 Ahbab. I know most of you are confused about why I call my subscribers "Ahbab." They themselves chose this name last year when I asked you guys to choose what to be called, and you selected "Ahbab." The...