I don't build apps to go viral.
I build them because something is missing — and the absence bothers me enough that I'd rather spend nights fixing it than keep tolerating it.
InfaqKu started that way. Not from a business plan. Not from market research. From a quiet discomfort I couldn't shake every Ramadan.
🧭 I Have a Rule
Before I write a single line of code, I ask myself one question:
"Would I use this?"
Not "would people download this." Not "could this scale." Just — would I, personally, open this app and trust it with something that matters to me?
If the answer is no, I don't build it.
For years, the answer to every zakat app I tried was no. They were fine as tools. But they didn't feel trustworthy. Ads inside a worship tracker. Cloud sync for my prayer records. Sign-up walls before I could even open a calculator.
These aren't small UX complaints. They're a values mismatch. And I can't ship something I don't believe in.
🕌 Ibadah Is Not a Data Point
I'm a Muslim. Zakat, infaq, sadaqah — these are acts of worship. They're intimate. They're personal. They belong between me and Allah.
When an app syncs my sadaqah history to a server I don't control, or shows me a banner ad right after I log a donation — it's not just annoying. It feels like a violation of something sacred.
I don't think most developers who built those apps had bad intentions. I just think they never asked the question I always ask: does this feel right?
For me, the answer was clear. If I'm going to build a tool for worship, it lives on your device and nowhere else. Full stop.
🛠️ What I Actually Value as a Developer
I've been building under FlagoDNA since 2020. 60K+ users. 15+ apps. And the thing I'm most proud of isn't any metric — it's that I've never shipped something I was ashamed of.
My philosophy is Mlampah Ing Tresno — a Javanese phrase that means walk in love. It sounds poetic because it is. But it's also practical. It means:
Build only what you genuinely care about. The code will be better. The decisions will be cleaner. And when you're debugging at midnight, you'll still know why it matters.
InfaqKu is that, fully. No compromise features. No monetization layer hidden for later. No "we'll add ads in v2." What you see is what it is — and what it is, is exactly what I wanted it to be.
📱 So What Did I Actually Build?
Every decision in the app traces back to a value, not a feature request.
I wanted honesty about your giving — so there's a Journey tab that shows your zakat, infaq, and sadaqah across the week, month, year, and all-time. A growing tree 🌳 that changes each month, quietly reflecting the season you're in. Not a dashboard. A mirror.
I wanted no excuses to not know your obligations — so I built four Zakat calculators from scratch. Zakat Maal, Zakat Fitr, Agricultural, Business. Each one explains the fiqh behind it, because I think people deserve to understand what they're doing and why, not just get a number.
I wanted a place for the soul, not just the ledger — so there's a Reflections tab. 39 Quranic verses, 20 authentic Hadith, 10 quotes. Not random content. Carefully chosen words about giving, generosity, and sincerity. The kind of thing you sit with for a moment before closing the app.
And I wanted real privacy — so there's biometric lock, encrypted local backup, zero internet required. Your records are yours. Always.
None of these were "nice to haves." Each one was an answer to something that bothered me about how this category of apps had been built before.
🤲 The Part That Matters Most
I made InfaqKu free because I think of it as my sadaqah jariyah — a continuous charity. Something that keeps giving after I've moved on.
I write poetry too. And in both — code and poems — I'm chasing the same thing: something honest, made with care, that reaches someone I'll never meet and quietly makes their day a little better.
That's the whole job, really.
Not the downloads. Not the ratings. Just the quiet usefulness of a thing made with love.
🔗 Links
| 📱 Try InfaqKu | Download on Google Play → |
| 📖 App page | flagodna-developer.github.io/project/infaqku → |
| 🏢 FlagoDNA | flagodna.com → |
| 👨💻 About me | cahyanudien.github.io → |
Barakallahu fiikum. 🤲
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