About

Malik Arsalan

I've been online since 2010 — building things before I knew it could be a career. A geology degree, a year in China on a scholarship, COVID-19 sending me home, and then one clear decision: stop treating the internet as a side project. That was 2020.

Since then, ScanQR.org went from nothing to 1.8 million people using it every month. Not one paid visit. Every one came from Google — because the tool is genuinely useful and the SEO is done properly.

In January 2025 I founded Ash Tech Solutions — apps with over 100,000 Play Store downloads, a YouTube Silver Play Button, and more tools in the pipeline. I work from Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir. The internet doesn't care where you sit.

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Quick facts

Full name
Malik Arsalan
Born
199*
Based in
Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
Nationality
Pakistani
Education
BS Geology, UAJK (2017)
Title
Tech Entrepreneur
Company
Ash Tech Solutions (Est. Jan 2025)
ScanQR.org
1.8M visits/month · Global #27,798
YouTube
100K+ subscribers · Silver Play Button
Play Store
100,000+ downloads across 4 apps
Online since
2010

How I got here

Starting online in 2010

I first got serious about computers and the internet in 2010, in Muzaffarabad. There were no courses, no YouTube tutorials in Urdu, nobody around me doing this. Just trial and error, late nights, and projects nobody else was looking at. The curiosity was there before any plan was.

Geology, Islamabad, and a year in China

I studied Geology at the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, graduating in 2017. After that, Islamabad — call centre work, medical billing, eventually geology fieldwork — while building web projects on the side. In 2018 I won a master's scholarship to study in China. I went. A year in, COVID-19 happened. Students were sent home. Borders closed. I came back to Muzaffarabad without completing the degree, with no clear path forward.

The decision that changed everything

Coming back was clarifying. I had been deferring the obvious decision for years. With the geology path on hold indefinitely, I stopped treating the internet as a backup plan and made it the only plan. In 2020 I built QRGenerator.org and ScanQR.org. The strategy was simple: find what people search for, build a better tool than what's currently ranking, and optimise every page for Google. No paid ads. No investors. No agency. ScanQR.org now receives 1.8 million visits every month and has never spent a rupee on advertising.

Ash Tech Solutions and what comes next

In January 2025 I founded Ash Tech Solutions — a proper software house, not a solo operation. App developer, digital marketers, real products. Our apps have crossed 100,000 Play Store downloads. The YouTube channel earned its Silver Play Button long before the company was formally incorporated. The model that works — build tools people search for, grow them through SEO — is the same model, just with better infrastructure and a small team behind it.

How I think about building

01
Build things people are already searching for.If someone is already searching for a solution, you don't need to convince them they have a problem. Start with demand, then build supply.
02
Organic growth compounds. Paid growth stops the moment you stop paying.Every rupee not spent on ads went back into improving the product. That compounding is why ScanQR.org is still growing years later.
03
Stay in one niche long enough to own it.Depth compounds. The deeper you go in one niche, the stronger your authority becomes. People who jump between niches never build the density that wins.
04
Location is not an excuse.Muzaffarabad is not a startup hub. It doesn't need to be. ScanQR.org serves the Philippines, the US, India — none of them know where I'm building from.
05
Be accurate about what you are.I'm not a coder who builds everything from scratch. I'm not VC-backed. I find gaps, build products to fill them, and grow them with SEO. That's the honest version — and it's a real skill.

What I am not

Available for client web design — I focus on my own products
A software engineer who codes everything from scratch
VC-backed — all products are bootstrapped, zero outside investment
A digital marketing agency — I grow my own products, not others'

Year by year

199*
Born in Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir
199*
2010
First steps online
Self-taught web design — no courses, no mentors
2011 / 2013
Matric & Intermediate
2013 — 2017
BS Geology · UAJK
2017 — 2019
Islamabad — early professional work
Call centre, medical billing, geology — web on the side throughout
2018 — 2019
Master's scholarship · China
Geology postgrad — COVID-19 ended it before completion
2020
Went full-time into tech
Built ScanQR.org and QRGenerator.org — SEO only, zero paid ads
2020+
YouTube Silver Play Button
100,000+ subscribers · Physical award from Google
Jan 2025
Founded Ash Tech Solutions
Software house · apps, tools, content · Muzaffarabad, AJK
2026
ScanQR.org at 1.8M visits/month
Global rank #27,798 · 100K+ Play Store downloads · zero paid ads

Want to get in touch?

For media, partnerships, or anything related to my products. Not available for client work.