Who built Sailyn
Sailyn is founded and built by Amaan Nizam, a mechatronics engineering student at THWS Würzburg-Schweinfurt in Germany and a student assistant at the university's Center for Robotics.
Why this exists
Most planners assume the hard part is deciding what to do. For a lot of people it is not: the deciding is finished and the doing still will not start, and every extra option on the screen is another chance to stall. Sailyn was built around that specific gap rather than around list-keeping, which is why it picks the task itself, pays you for starting rather than finishing, and never says anything about a day you missed.
Sailyn is an early-stage product being built toward a company, not a weekend experiment. It is in open beta while the shape of it is settled with the people using it, and free for as long as that lasts.
It is independent and self-funded at this stage, and that is a deliberate choice rather than a shortage of options. Nothing in Sailyn has a number it needs to grow this quarter, which is why there are no streaks to protect, no notifications engineered to drag you back, and no advertising anywhere in it. Those things get added when a product owes somebody a metric. This one does not, and the design is better for it.
Background
Mechatronics at THWS Würzburg-Schweinfurt, specialising in robotics and applied machine learning, and a student assistant at the THWS Center for Robotics. Most of the work outside Sailyn is hardware and autonomous systems: fixed-wing UAV avionics, embedded control, telemetry and fault detection.
Sailyn is the second venture. The first is FluxTation, a modular power-bank kiosk system for university campuses, which won first prize at the THWS Campus Startup Day and was selected for the FLIGHT Accelerator. Also president of the Nuremberg-Erlangen chapter of DEGIS, Germany's largest international student network, and a blogger for the DAAD.
The through line is the same in all of it: build the thing, put it in front of people, and find out where it is wrong from them rather than from a plan.
The full list, with the engineering projects in detail, is at lasahil.in.
How Sailyn is built
It runs in a browser, so there is nothing to install to try it. There is a native Android app that does the actual app blocking, and browser extensions that block sites on a computer. The iPhone app is being built, and until it ships Sailyn says plainly what iOS cannot do rather than implying otherwise.
Every release is written up in the changelog, including what was broken and why, which is not the usual way to do it and is deliberate.
Get in touch
Bug reports, feature requests and blunt feedback all shape what gets built next, and an open beta is exactly the point at which they change the outcome. Partnerships, universities interested in running it with their students, and anyone working on the same problem: also welcome.
- Email: founder@joinsailyn.com
- Portfolio: lasahil.in
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/theamaannizam
- GitHub: github.com/amaannizam29
Legal and contact details required under German law are on the Impressum.
Try it
Free while in beta, nothing to install, and it runs in a browser on a phone or a computer. Using it early is the most useful thing anyone can do for it.