Under the Hood
A small group of builders shipping real products in public. Here is everything behind the case studies.
Wander Labs is The Wandering Pro’s build-in-public initiative: serious people, most of them in Pakistan, building one real product each and mentored one-on-one until it ships. This is the work under the hood, the projects, the hours, and the calls that turn an idea into something live.
Real Ships, Not Prototypes
Build in public only means something if something actually ships. Here is what has.
SalesGenie is a Discord-native CRM that converts free community members into paying subscribers, with real B2B customers and a pipeline of more.
Systivia is an identity-based habit tracker, published on the Play Store and in active growth.
OSForms is an open-source form backend live at osforms.com, with a published npm package and bring-your-own-key integrations.
Umro Ayyar ran a 50-person HackTheBox Islamabad meetup live, with zero crashes and zero data loss.
Inside Each Build
Every project, where it sits on the Wander Labs journey, and the mentorship behind it.
A Discord-native CRM that runs AI sales conversations to turn free community members into paying subscribers.
Sharpest call: re-architected the bot to cut per-user AI cost, then sharpened the go-to-market.
An identity-based habit tracker: you build habits around who you are becoming, not just streaks.
Sharpest call: repositioned from another habit tracker into an identity-based system, then cut feature creep before launch.
An open-source form backend with bring-your-own-key integrations. Own your data, never hit a paywall.
Sharpest call: stopped adding features, nailed the one-line pitch, and pushed for real users over more integrations.
A boss bot platform automating HackTheBox Islamabad meetup ops for the BSides Pakistan community.
Sharpest call: cut a sprawling design doc to one flow and shipped to a real meetup deadline.
Not a product, a writing arc: from zero published work to a real body of articles with a point of view.
Sharpest call: found a real point of view and a publishing cadence, going from zero to a featured publication.
A directory that helps Pakistani students find and compare university programs, fees, and details.
Sharpest call: designed a fee schema that handles every university’s format, then scoped hard toward deploy.
The founder’s own Lab: a capture-first task app built on the CORE productivity framework.
Walking the talk: the founder runs his own build with the same rigor he asks of everyone, full research and specs before a line of code.
A real-time chat app, built as a full-stack learning project to break out of tutorial hell.
The goal: scope a tight v1 and learn by building, not watching.
Built With Real Tools, Code and Craft
Wander Labs is not developer-only. The work spans engineering, writing, design, and distribution.
Become Part of Wander Labs
It all runs inside the Discord. Join, show up, and pitch something real, one project, built in the open until it ships.
Build in Public, Explained
What Wander Labs is, who it is for, and how to get in.