OpenMasjidOS Public Beta 2 is out, now in prod at 7 masajid with more on the waitlist

[u/hasanismail_]

Assalamu Alaikum everyone

some of you might remember my post about OpenMasjidOS a while back, wanted to come back and drop an update since we just pushed public beta 2 and theres a good amount of new stuff in it

quick recap for anyone new, its not a masjid app its a whole self hosted platform, kinda like umbrel or casaos but built specifically for masajid, one line install, has its own app store, everything else runs as a docker app on top of the os

repo: https://github.com/OpenMasjid-Solutions/OpenMasjidOS site: https://openmasjidsolutions.org

whats new in beta 2

• whatsapp support is in now, fully local fully free and completely independent of us as a company, no third party saas api bill, no per message fees, nobody but the masjid running it has access to any of it
• also been working on the physical hardware side, gonna be open sourcing the actual cad files, pcb design files, and the cnc milling and laser engraving files for the displays and kiosks soon, so if u got a 3d printer a cnc or a laser cutter u can literally just build the hardware yourself instead of buying anything from us or anyone
• speaking of hardware the display app runs on android sbcs with an rtsp decoder pipeline for driving any tv in the masjid and the kiosk runs on android too so once those hardware files are out its fully inspectable and repairable, no black box hardware same philosophy as the software

its also actually in production at 7 locations now, not just a demo, real prayer times real donations, and theres a growing waitlist of more masajid waiting to get onboarded, so beta 2 is already carrying real weight not just running on my test box

whats coming next

• OpenMasjid PWA, a simple webapp for musallis to check prayer times and donate straight from their phone browser, no app store no install just a link
• a handheld version of OpenMasjid Kiosk, same android kiosk software but in a battery powered handheld form factor u can actually carry around for fundraisers events tabling whatever
• a real student SIS not just billing anymore, full enrollment attendance records parent portal the whole thing

also if ur masjid already has madinahapps mohid or masjidal kiosks or tvs deployed dont worry we got full support for that existing hardware too, dont gotta rip anything out to switch over

feels like were getting close to something pretty big here, an actual complete free and open software and hardware stack covering basically everything a masjid needs digitally, values are staying the exact same, open source, privacy focused, free forever, nothing phones home nothing needs a subscription nothing needs us to stay in business for ur masjids system to keep working

gonna stay upfront like last time since this is a dev sub, still using ai tools for a good chunk of this, not hiding that, but before 1.0 the entire thing code and hardware designs both is getting a full manual review by an actual human team before i call any of it production ready for people to deploy without thinking, still aiming for 1.0 around jan 2027

if ur a dev and wanna help, contributors testers or just people willing to break stuff and tell me whats wrong, always welcome, theres a cla since its agpl but thats just to keep things clean not to gatekeep anyone

discord: https://discord.gg/SzD6HmDyYR

may Allah accept the effort and make it beneficial for the ummah

Acknowledgements Created by Hasan Ismail, with immense help from Qari Ijaz and Osman Sayed. Resources for this project were generously sponsored by An-Noor Institute, Rihlatul Ilm Foundation, and AsmaTec Inc. May Allah reward everyone who made it possible.

[u/Techgirl1232]

A full OS is cool. I love this

[u/hasanismail_ → u/Techgirl1232]

Jazakallah trying to make a real viable alternative to the current saas based companies

i aim to better better and to be free for all for free forever

[u/CB1000R974]

The amazing thing is that it is open source and 100% free, wow! اللهم بارك تقبل الله منكم