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Why I Built My Own Medical Practice From Scratch

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Omar Saleem, MD
Dec 24, 2025
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I’m a precision preventative medicine physician focused on South Asian health. I’m also a hospitalist. And this year, I became something I never expected: a builder.

I built 161 apps on Replit and published 47 of them. That apparently puts me in the top 0.5% of users on the platform.

I’m not a software engineer. I’m a doctor who got tired of waiting.

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