HelpLeb : Lebanon will never be the same

We just launched www.helpleb,com . We didn't deploy the tweaked-Ushahidi platform that me and Abdallah Absi have been working on but for now, it's a page where people can sign up and will be informed when we deploy the real thing.

The design is simple and straight forward although the logo might be tentative. The gradient under the logo was donated by William Choukeir :) One of the best design gurus I have ever met. I sat with the man for two hours and understood really what designing something is.

Help Leb is about letting people share issues. But it doesn't stop there at all. We want people to start solving these issues. And they can do that by finding other people who also have the same problem. They connect with these people and start doing something amazing.

Well, that's the goal. We are trying out best to make that easy to happen and we'll let everyone else decide.

www.helpleb.com

In case you missed it :)

Help Leb

Remember the project I was working on with the help of Kalam el Nas?

Well, the project, now called Help Leb, is in it's final stages. And me and my friend Abdallah Absi are putting something up on the domain soon (www.helpleb.com that is). Basically:

The project will aim at helping Lebanon. We want to give everyone the chance to share the real issues.

Not only that, but we want everyone to solve these issues. And solve them together.

Stay tuned.

Interview with YallaStartup Weekend Winners

YallaStartup and YallaStartup Weekend Winners interview on Future TV.

YallaStartup Weekend - Future TV interview with winners from YallaStartup on Vimeo.

Participated in YallaStartup Weekend

There are three things that you musy know
about last weekend,

1. YallaStartup is an NGO founded by three inspiring entrepreneurs: Elie Khoury, Habib Haddad and Sami Shalabi. They all founded their diffrent companies like Woopra and Yamli. YallaStartup focuses on helping startups. And last weekend, on November 12, they brought to the Middle East
   
2. StartupWeekend,
   
   which is a global event that happens in cities all around the world where developers, businessmen, graphic artists, entrepreneurs, engineers... etc. meet up and build a working prototype of their ideas in 54 hours (1 weekend). For the first time, it happened here, in the Middle East, Lebanon. More specifically at
   
   
3. Berytech's amazing center in Mansouriyeh, right outside of Beirut. Berytech is a Lebanon-based incubator for SME as well as startups.
   Now I could narrate how 300 hundred people from Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria met, pitched their ideas, made teams, worked with people they've never seen before and presented a WORKING PROTOTYPE of their ideas in 54 hours... But I'm going to let you watch it instead
   

Read the tweets through the hashtag: #YSWLB
Check out the picture on Flicker on: this
And watch the whole thing here, on the video below! (Beware, its two hours long!)



As to what I did, I worked as a designer for Kazdoor by Hassan Baydoun. I designed the iPhone App that will allow people to have all of their loyalty card on their phone. On the video above, you can see me presenting at: 1:50:00. More about Kazdoor coming up