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How I built my past papers website ↓ The four graduates from the reel ↓

Rahman's announcement in the RahmanBuilds Discord: I build Pakistan's All In One Past Papers Website

From the server: the day I shipped the past papers website.

How I built my past papers website. In one day, by talking to AI.

A free past papers site for every major board in Pakistan, 9th to 12th, plus NUST, GIKI, FAST, UET and COMSATS entry tests. I didn't write a line of code.

29,737practice questions

26boards linked

5entry tests

Counts from the site's own build log, 3 October 2026.

Search for a board, class and subject — Type your board and class. It finds your subject.

An MCQ with Check answer — Tap an option, then **Check answer**.

Most repeated questions — The questions that came in **more than one paper**.

Research

Claude split itself into three helpers and searched every board in Pakistan at the same time. It found that universities don't publish real past papers at all.

The data

It downloaded 8 GB of papers. Most were scanned photos, so up to 15 helpers read them page by page and typed out the questions, Urdu and Sindhi too.

Answers, then the back end

11,142 MCQ answers worked out by AI and labelled that way, then the part that saves uploads, the database and a private review page.

The design

Over 30 designs in six rounds. I kept rejecting them. My feedback was things like "too basic" and "we need colours".

Online

Hosted on Vercel, with Claude Code doing most of the setup. When photo uploads broke on the live site, Claude caught it in its own test and fixed it.

Open the past paper finder → Every message I sent Claude, typos and all

Honest bits: Claude Code needs a paid Claude plan (current price). The AI answers can be wrong, so they're labelled and low-confidence ones are hidden.

The four graduates from the reel. Every number has its source.

NUST“The one for toppers”

Ahsan Tahir studied software engineering at NUST SEECS. Then he built Walee, a company that connects brands with creators.

In 2025 it ran the online streaming network for HBL PSL X. The company says the apps it streamed on reached 75 million people.
Raised $2.7 million in 2021.

Company figure in a ProPakistani post, 3 April 2025 (labelled sponsored). Seed: ProPakistani, 2 September 2021.

walee.pk →

FAST“The one for coders”

Arif Iqbal studied at FAST Lahore (Batch 2001), then worked at Meta and Pinterest in America. Then he came home and built LAAM, a store that sells Pakistani clothes to people living abroad.

Investors put in $5.5 million (seed, December 2024). One of the lead funds is run by a Shark Tank judge.
The company told TechCrunch it has about 500,000 users and sales in over 100 countries.

TechCrunch, 11 December 2024. FAST's own page: lhr.nu.edu.pk.

laam.pk →

LUMS“The one for rich kids”

Muneeb Ali grew up in Pakistan and studied computer science at LUMS (2003). Then he built Stacks, which lets people build apps on top of Bitcoin. The code is open for anyone to read.

His next company, Trust Machines, raised $150 million (February 2022).
He gave LUMS 5 million Stacks tokens, about $7 million when the university announced it.

ProPakistani, 4 February 2022. The gift: LUMS, 14 April 2022.

stacks.co →

COMSATS“The backup”

Rizwan Munawar studied computer science at COMSATS and still lives in Islamabad. Then he works on Ultralytics YOLO, the AI that lets computers see. He helped build the parts that count cars, measure their speed and find free parking spots.

Out of everyone who has worked on that code, only one person has more contributions: he is #2, with 447.
The company says YOLO gets used 2 billion times a day. LinkedIn Learning published his course.

GitHub contributors, read 6 October 2026 (it changes). Usage: Ultralytics, 2025. Course: LinkedIn Learning.

his GitHub →

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