An Interview with Nural Technologies Founder—HAMAD FUAD

Please tell us more about yourself and Nural app?

I’ve always been curious and wanting to learn how to create, develop and build apps. I felt like I needed to do that on my own since no one I knew has experience or ever worked as developer. I went and taught myself what I needed to know to transform my ideas into something people would interact with. I had no experience— ZERO—experience. I spent hundreds of hours researching, reading more and looking for the best platforms to get started. I really invested all I had into this journey including time, money and beautiful moments with my beloved ones. Earlier I co-founded two startups—Yuppi and WNNA. I gained a lot of experience, built relationships and took all the lessons learned to finally build Nural mid of this year.

I’m always hungry to learn and challenge myself as there are unlimited resources available today so we don’t have any excuse not to do or start the project that we dream of. We have a great tool which we think is basic like Google where you type any question you have and BAM! You get an answer or at least a start. There are endless free tools out there for anything you want to do. You just have to ask the right question then when you get an answer, start working small, step by-step. After that, do more research in details continuously to improve your skills. Use what you have and do what you can’t. It’s now or never.

I’ll always say that YouTube is a very strong tool. You have professionals making videos of their process and that’s real gold. Another outlet is Medium—I read a lot of blogs / tutorials written by experts in the field and it’s tremendously helpful, and insightful. I highly recommend people to read and watch more on these platforms relating to the topics they’re interested in, and also contribute or give back to the community.

Can you tell us more about Nural and what inspired you to launch this business?We’re rethinking the entire project management stack! We created a smart project management platform that helps you to manage your tasks, organize team communication and create, share and maintain notes. Intelligently, seamlessly and effectively – all in one place. Effective and efficient project management and team communication have always been at the heart of successful businesses, which is becoming more difficult every day because the available platforms for project managers are good to use, but are too professional. So, it takes time & effort to educate the team members on how to manage tasks, conversations and notes. While looking closer, many of these applications are designed for specific functions and are poor when it comes to bridging the gap between information and goals, organizing chaotic group communication—you always tend to miss some important messages. Or when starting on a new
project, you happen to repeat the same steps every time.

Nural is designed to unlock your ability to achieve your goals before inspiration fades and never miss an important thing. No boring tutorials or learn a new project management methodology.
There’s no extra work involved for your team, you just dive right in. Nural is a platform that will go as far as your imagination and inspiration will take it.

Where did the name come from?

It’s actually an AI term that means a set of algorithms based on your brain. We have a large number of people using Nural! We have a lot of people using Nural from China, Germany, USA, Vietnam,Russia, and France. We’ve invested a lot on localization! It’s something amazing for the team and I to know that we have people from all over the world using our app on a daily basis. The response was super positive when we were in Jeddah for AppzWorld Forum to showcase Nural—we had a question on our roll up saying “Missed your project deadlines again? Who will you blame.” So we had a lot of people come up and say “YES, please. We need help with project management” and they kept pointing at their team members stating that it was an issue to have everyone be productive and finish tasks by the deadline.