{"schemaVersion":"1.0","originalNotes":[{"title":"the quote that went nowhere","url":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/relycare","text":"before RelyCare, i ran Oryind. found clients, figured out what they needed, built the software, dealt with everything else. it made money. that money eventually went into RelyCare.\n\na speech therapy clinic came to me about tracking sessions and patient progress. i treated it like any other job. wrote a proposal. quoted $3,000+ for a private version of what would become RelyCare.\n\nthe deal fell through.\n\ni kept thinking about it. started talking to therapists. ended up talking to 50-something of them over the next few months. what happened between sessions. what they couldn’t keep track of. what they didn’t trust software to do. what they needed to see in a patient’s history.\n\nthe first version was mostly documentation. but getting notes written wasn’t the whole problem. they needed to understand what was happening to a patient over time, with evidence to back it up.\n\nso i changed what i was building."},{"title":"messy. worked.","url":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/keyboard","text":"none of the MIDI cables worked with my specific Yamaha model. so i reverse-engineered the MIDI communication and made one myself with an arduino.\n\nbeen playing piano since i was about 8. i can listen to something and play it back. i’m not that good though. i’ll play for a while, then forget about it for a while. just something i do from time to time."},{"title":"gta, apparently","url":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/roblox","text":"something like gta. i was 14 or 15.\n\ngave up almost immediately."},{"title":"ranked, through discord","url":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/blast-royale","text":"around 2022–23, i made a discord bot for Blast Royale. the game had no ranked mode and hosting scrims was a pain. so i built ranked, scrims, and win tracking through discord.\n\nit was used by a gaming community with 60k+ people at the time.\n\nthe game shut down."}],"updated":"2026-09-10","provenance":"First-person information supplied by Adham and published on this site. Project metrics are self-reported, not independently audited.","person":{"name":"Adham Yasser","handle":"4dhxm","location":"Minya, Egypt","summary":"Builds software and hardware. Currently building RelyCare, software for speech-language pathologists.","background":"Started using computers around age six or younger and learning to code at twelve.","interests":["Piano since around age eight, played occasionally by ear","Fishing with his dad and his friends in Hamata","Photography, including the Nile in Minya"],"email":"adham@relycare.app","profiles":["https://github.com/4dhxm","https://4dhxm.medium.com","https://www.linkedin.com/in/4dhxm"],"source":"https://adhamy.com/"},"projects":[{"name":"RelyCare","description":"Software for speech-language pathologists. Began with a $3,000+ custom software proposal to a speech therapy clinic through Oryind. The deal fell through. After speaking to 50-something therapists, Adham shifted from documentation toward patient progress over time and supporting evidence.","url":"https://relycare.app","source":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/relycare"},{"name":"Oryind","description":"A software studio for businesses. Adham found clients, scoped their needs and built the software. Its profits funded RelyCare.","source":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/relycare"},{"name":"ShatterLabs","description":"Game studio started in 2025. A 12-person unpaid team, including a Supercell engineer; a community of 16,000+ and around 2,000 beta signups in 48 hours. Adham later moved on.","source":"https://adhamy.com/#story"},{"name":"NanoNet","description":"Automatic differentiation built with NumPy to understand what happens beneath PyTorch.","url":"https://github.com/4dhxm/numpy-autograd","source":"https://adhamy.com/#work"},{"name":"Yamaha USB MIDI interface","description":"First hardware project. Existing MIDI cables did not work with his specific Yamaha model, so he reverse-engineered the communication and built an Arduino-based interface.","source":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/keyboard"},{"name":"Home automation","description":"Wired up his house with ESP32s.","source":"https://adhamy.com/#work"},{"name":"Wi-Fi access point","description":"A networking project exploring the PHY layer.","source":"https://adhamy.com/#work"},{"name":"Mennus","description":"QR menus for restaurants.","url":"https://mennus.com","source":"https://adhamy.com/#work"},{"name":"Blast Royale Discord bot","description":"Built around 2022–2023 for ranked play, scrims and win tracking where the game lacked those features. Used in a gaming community of 60k+ members. This figure is community size, not a verified count of bot users. The game subsequently shut down.","source":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/blast-royale"},{"name":"Roblox open-world game","description":"An attempt at a GTA-like game in 2021, at around age 14 or 15. Abandoned almost immediately.","source":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/roblox"}],"reading":[{"title":"Original notes in Markdown","url":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes.md","description":"Full first-person text, generated from the same content as the notes page."},{"title":"Notes RSS feed","url":"https://adhamy.com/feed.xml","description":"Subscribe to the original notes."},{"title":"Personal notes","url":"https://adhamy.com/writing/notes","description":"RelyCare origin, first hardware project, piano, Roblox and the Discord bot."},{"title":"Photos","url":"https://adhamy.com/photos","description":"Fishing trips in Hamata, the Nile in Minya, and a skyline. Captions and alt text accompany the photos."},{"title":"The Reality of Being a Solo Founder in Egypt","url":"https://4dhxm.medium.com/the-reality-of-being-a-solo-founder-in-egypt-2953cd468871","description":"Published on Medium, May 27, 2026. Follow the original for the essay."},{"title":"I built a clinic tool for a country I’ve never been to","url":"https://4dhxm.medium.com/i-built-a-clinic-tool-for-a-country-ive-never-been-to-506fa41e54fe","description":"Published on Medium, May 8, 2026. Follow the original for the essay."}],"accuracy":["The $3,000+ RelyCare quote was not a completed sale.","60k+ describes the Blast Royale community, not bot users.","16,000+ community members and around 2,000 beta signups belong to ShatterLabs, not RelyCare.","No birth date, current revenue, funding valuation or exact Yamaha model is provided.","The black-boxes essay is labelled a draft and is not included in this context."]}