Arqam Gadit

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Change - a Mirage?

To all the people who are out there to change the ‘system’ or ‘inqilaaaab’. Isnt it what we’ve been doing for the past 67 years? Every single decade of our existence has seen an ‘inqilaab’. Every single decade of our existence is marked with anarchy and instability. With uncertainty and disorder.

If there is anything we need, its stability and continuation. Not chaos and short-term fixes. Leaders are a reflection of the people they lead. In a cause and effect scenario, we keep trying to change the effects instead of fixing the real cause - ourselves.

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Apppulp - The Journey

The Inception

2 years ago, in a Ramadan just like this one, I started working on an idea that was in my mind for a bit too long. An idea that I would keep getting back to whenever I wanted to ‘do’ something.

Back then, I was working as a gamedev at PiLabs, working with the amazing little group we had over there. We had just gone through the experience of creating and publishing our first ever game in the AppStore. The pains of just getting it in front of the people, of begging the review sites for some coverage made the CTO, Amir Ali and the creative guy, Tabish think, what if we automate this process? What if we make a place where people could see how much our game is actually being played?

It striked us all. We pitched in with our own suggestions and so the original idea was born - to create a ranking that would rate games based on quality. To solve the problem of ‘marketing’ for...

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