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Why We Publish Everything We Build For Free

Free experiments, free products, free ideas, free help, and now free books. Abdullah Tarar explains the simple reason Famst Agency gives away its work.

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Abdullah Tarar

Aug 01, 2026 ยท5 min read ยท0 views
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The most expensive thing we own is attention

Every time Famst Agency finishes a project, we learn something. A small trick for laying out text without touching the DOM. A faster way to type an Urdu dialogue for the web. A design system that survives five different shoe brands.

We could keep those lessons to ourselves. Instead, we publish them โ€” free experiments, free products, free ideas, free help, and now free books.

Free is not the opposite of serious

Some people read "free" and hear "low quality." The truth is the opposite. When you give something away, the only thing you have left to protect is your name. So the free things we publish are the things we are proudest of. There is no excuse to ship bad work when your name is attached to it.

What we have given away so far

  • Experiments โ€” playful web tools you can try in your browser.
  • Products โ€” a showcase of paid and studio work, fully documented.
  • Ideas โ€” an open board where anyone can suggest the next thing we build.
  • Help โ€” a support desk that answers real questions from real people.
  • Books โ€” original Urdu and English titles, free to read.

A simple rule

If something we build could help one other person, it gets published. That rule has never failed us, and we do not expect it to start now.

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