I built an app for my factory video crew.
Pakistan makes almost everything. Almost nobody films it.
I send a camera into its factories. Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad.
MVYT is the app my team runs it on.
The work
One factory, start to finish.
A factory we hear about. Permission. The shoot. The footage, reaching me at full resolution. The video, going up.
Every step is a tap on a phone. In Urdu, English or Roman Urdu — each person picks.
The team
Their day, one tap per job.
At the end of the day each cameraman taps what they did. Shoot, lead visit, footage to HQ, travel, leave.
Each tap opens a short form, already filled in with what the app expects.
The app files every answer in the right place.
If the day isn't logged, the app reminds them. At 6 pm, and again at 8:30.
If footage hasn't reached me, it reminds them of that too.
The reminders do the chasing. I don't.
My screen
The business, as it happens.
This is the part that excites me.
The whole business is on my screen, and it changes when the business does.
Every factory. Every shoot. Every gigabyte that reached me — or didn't.
Or all of it as one table. Sorted, filtered and searched however I like.
The team types in Urdu. I read in English.
Claude translates every new entry on my own Mac, every half hour.
It lives at mvyt.noorandmachine.com. Sign-in is for the team.
The screenshots use made-up factories and numbers.