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Founder of HalalCodeCheck and independent Product & Technology Consultant helping startups and growing companies move from idea → MVP → traction.

I work at the intersection of product strategy, AI automation, technical execution, and growth systems. Recent work includes building HalalCodeCheck, a product intelligence and verification platform serving 25,000+ monthly users across 20 countries, alongside projects in sports analytics, inventory management, OCR-powered verification systems, and AI-assisted business workflows.

Whether you're launching a new product, modernizing an existing platform, implementing AI-driven automation, or building scalable growth systems, I focus on practical solutions that create measurable business outcomes.

## What I Help With

- MVP Development: Turning ideas and rough concepts into production-ready products. - Product Strategy & Technical Direction: Bringing clarity to complex technical and product decisions. - AI Automation & Workflows: Implementing practical AI solutions that improve operations and customer experience. - Growth Systems: Building analytics platforms, programmatic SEO engines, and automated data pipelines. - Platform Modernization: Reducing technical debt and preparing systems for long-term growth.

## Why Work With Me

- Founder Perspective: I build and operate products myself, not just for clients. - Proven Execution: 25+ years of hands-on experience across software, sports analytics, e-commerce, publishing, oil & gas, and consumer platforms. - Business-Oriented Approach: Technology is a means to an outcome, not the outcome itself. - Ownership Mindset: I focus on shipping, learning, and creating momentum rather than generating reports and roadmaps.

Always happy to discuss products, AI, growth, startups, and the evolving halal technology ecosystem.

pythonbaseon Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth

How does Utopia compare with Dreamweaver or FrontPage?

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2021)

SEEKING WORK

Freelance, Remote

Tech Stack: Python, Django, React, Data Scraping

Resume: https://kashifaziz.me/kashif-aziz-cv.pdf

Contact: contact@kashifaziz.me

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)

  Location: Karachi, Pakistan 
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, Django, Pandas, Data Scraping, React
  Email: contact@kashifaziz.me

pythonbaseon Alien Artifacts on Earth and in Our Solar System Is Possible, NASA Reports

New World Order? Locking down populations, forcing people to stay at home for extended periods of time, forcing them to take "medications" etc? Next step would be state enforced use of digital currencies, taking the control to next level.

Conspiracy theories, of course.

pythonbaseon Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix’s CEO

WordPress powers roughly 40% of websites out there. What reach Wix has?

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Software developers, what is your side income?

I built a number of projects ranging from job listing sites to content sites/blogs. These sites are running mostly on auto, generating enough, through ads and sponsorships, to cover the misc expenses.

Thought about starting a SaaS or something that has more steady income but receiving payments is a hassle in my part of the world. No PayPal or Stripe available.

pythonbaseon 34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work

In my country most of the workforce that went remote during the pandemic is back at work. Seems WFH is more of a fad in the West.

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2021)

  Location: Karachi, Pakistan
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, JavaScript, SEO
  Résumé/CV: https://kashifaziz.me/kashif-aziz-cv.pdf
  Email: contact@kashifaziz.me

pythonbaseon Web Scraping 101 with Python

I do web scraping for fun and profit, primarily using Python. Wrote a post some time back about it.

https://www.kashifaziz.me/web-scraping-python-beautifulsoup....

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2021)

SEEKING WORK, Location: Karachi, Pakistan, Remote

Technology Consultant offering solutions in the areas of web development, web scraping, data mining and business process automation, mainly using Python.

Tech Stack: Python (Pandas, Requests, BS4, Django, Flask, Openpyxl), MySQL, WordPress

https://www.kashifaziz.me https://kashifaziz.me/kashif-aziz-cv.pdf https://github.com/kashaziz

pythonbaseon My Third Year as a Solo Developer

Do you offer a team or just yourself as a CTO? How do you find clients?

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

Filled in the contact form.

pythonbaseon In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

That's really awesome. I am next door and providers here boas of having lowest broadband fares in the region.

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2021)

Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Pandas, MySQL, AWS, SEO

Résumé/CV: http://kashifaziz.me/kashif-aziz-cv.pdf

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

Earnings come solely from domain registration commissions? If yes, then $200/mo is not bad at all.

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

Can you share Adsense alternatives that can actually have steady payouts?

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

How you got these approved from Adsense? Heard that usually have issues with content aggregators claiming such sites do not have original content.

pythonbaseon Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry

I recently did a project where a financial model for IAS-19 built in Excel was migrated to a cloud based solution based on Python/Django/Pandas.

pythonbaseon Show HN: AskHadith – A Hadith search engine based on Mongo text search

I have worked with their API. Response time is good.

pythonbaseon Show HN: AskHadith – A Hadith search engine based on Mongo text search

Have you used Sunnah.com API or manually scraped the data?

pythonbaseon Show HN: AskHadith – A Hadith search engine based on Mongo text search

Great interface. Can you please share the data source?

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)

Location: Pakistan

Remote: Available for both full-time and freelance work

Tech: Python, MySQL, AWS

Github: https://github.com/kashaziz

Resume: https://kashifaziz.me/kashif-aziz-cv.pdf

About me: Diversified experience ranging from SEO, Content Marketing, WordPress and building Python based application back-ends and scripts.

pythonbaseon On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project

What options do we have in Python world if someone wants to migrate CMS based sites built using WordPress ?

pythonbaseon Why Karachi Floods

The systematic encroachment, lack of infrastructure development/ maintenance and criminal negligence by the concerned authorities have turned Karachi into an urban disaster. Every time it rains, Karachi sinks.

Here's a blog post from 2009, things have became worse now.

http://www.chowrangi.pk/why-karachi-suffer-when-it-rains.htm...

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)

  Location: Pakistan

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: Yes

  Technologies: Python, Django, Web Scraping, SEO

  Web: https://www.kashifaziz.me/

  Contact: https://www.kashifaziz.me/contact/

pythonbaseon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)

Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python (Django, Flask, Pandas etc), MySQL, JavaScript, PHP

Résumé/CV: https://www.kashifaziz.me/web-scraping-data-mining-services/

Email: https://www.kashifaziz.me/contact/

pythonbaseon Hiring Without Whiteboards

Great approach. How do you shortlist candidates for the first step?

pythonbaseon Twilio Acquires Electric Imp

Same in this part of Asia. Companies are 'pleased' to notify that they have fired so and so on misconduct.

pythonbaseon Mozilla VPN

And there are countries that force users to get their VPNs registered.

https://www.pta.gov.pk/en/media-center/single-media/public-n...

pythonbaseon If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

I started to blog in 2003-4 but these days I rarely write long form. I feel that the the rise of social media and 'micro blogging' platforms have changed reading habits of the masses and people, in general, now prefer to skim through a thread of tweets than reading a long form blog post of 2000+ words.