Hi, I'm Mohammedsaif Maher K.

I built Mihn because I got tired of watching Muslim freelancers — friends, family, people in my group chats — run their businesses through tools that didn't respect their work or their values.

I'm a software engineer. I've spent years building products — most of them for small businesses, none of them for people like me until now.

I'm originally from Gaza. After the war we lost our home and our business, and my family resettled in Cairo. The work continued. So did the people I owed it to.

I'm not a video editor myself. But I have close friends and family who are — and I kept watching them struggle with the same gap. A documentary editor in Birmingham, a nasheed producer in Cairo, a motion designer in Karachi running a halal-brand contract — all doing serious work, all moving it through Gmail threads, Drive folders, and WhatsApp screenshots. The work was excellent. The infrastructure around it was a mess.

The high end of the industry has tools like Frame.io. They're built for studios with procurement departments. They're expensive. They're built by people who don't share — and don't think about — our values. For the freelancer or the small shop, they're out of reach anyway.

What was missing was a tool built for the person doing the work. Calm, focused, halal in the way it bills, and quietly aware that the editor signing in has more on their day than the next deadline.

So I started building one.

A workspace, not an attention machine. Most modern SaaS optimizes for engagement — minutes spent, notifications clicked, streaks maintained. Mihn optimizes for the opposite: get in, do the work, get out, go pray, see your family, live your life. The product is good when you don't have to think about it.

A tool that takes the craft seriously. Timecode comments aren't a feature — they're a respect for what editing actually is: frame-by-frame, intentional work. If you've ever had a client reply “make it pop more” you know exactly what I'm trying to fix.

A business that holds its values when no one's watching. The values page lists what I won't do. The promise of that page is that I'd rather lose a customer to a real principle than keep one through a fudged answer.

I'm not trying to build the next Frame.io. They have venture money, hundreds of engineers, and a clear ceiling on who they serve. I'm trying to build the tool the freelancer in your group chat has been asking around for.

I'm not trying to build an “Islamic SaaS company” with bismillahs on the marketing page and a “halal” sticker on pricing. The values are how the product works, not how it's marketed.

I'm not trying to grow at any cost. If Mihn pays the bills and serves a few thousand Muslim creatives well, that's a success worth showing up for.

If you're a video editor, motion designer, or studio owner and you've read this far — write to me. Tell me what tool you use today, what frustrates you about it, what the deal-breakers would be if you moved. I read every email.

If you have feedback on the values — the payments stance, the content policy, anything else that touches your fiqh more than my code — write to me about that too. I'd rather refine the position than defend a wrong one.

founder@mihn.app

— Mohammedsaif Maher K.
Cairo, Egypt