Timeline and Progress

2011

August 9th- The NEW Email Match Preferences option is live now as part of the match search. Filter what kind of matches you receive via email.

August 5th– Another success story of a couple who just got married through Half Our Deen. Alhamdulillah!

July 24th- Half Our Deen takes part in ICOI's 2nd Annual Welcoming Ramadan Picnic at Hidden Valley Park in Irvine, CA

July 18th 706,347 Visitors, 6,133,176 Page views to the Half Our Deen site. Mashallah!

July 17th - Half Our Deen 1yr Anniversary! Over 150 found their other half...who's next?

July 13th - Half Our Deen reaches 6 million page views.

July 12th– Half Our Deen reaches 3,354 followers on twitter! http://twitter.com/babaali

July 10th– Over 150 people announced that they found their match on Half Our Deen. Alhamdulillah!

July 10th– A couple in Australia got married through Half Our Deen. Alhamdulillah!

July 5th–Two couples that met on Half Our Deen got married this weekend. Alhamdulillah!

July 1st-4th– HOD took part at ISNA Chicago, 2011 and launched Muslim Personality. HOD had the busiest non retail booth at ISNA. Baba Ali held a workshop in one of the sessions and over 400 Muslims showed up. A couple married on HOD showed up at the booth to share their story and take pictures with Baba Ali.

June 12th– Half Our Deen reaches 10K fans on Facebook (www.facebook.com/halfourdeen)

May 28-30th– Half Our Deen had a booth at RIS Long Beach, 2011. HOD gave a preview of the upcoming Muslim Personality test that attracted over 800 Muslims.

May 29th– HOD holds its second Offline event in Long Beach, CA. 84 people attended with more waiting to get in. 14 matches were made at this event. Sheikh Muhammad Faqhi made a special appearance to this event and gave some special advice to the brothers and sisters there. Check out the pictures from the event

May 25th– Imam Mustafa Umar gives his endorsement to hodoffline.com.

May 12th- Baba Ali was interviewed by One Legacy Radio discussing the topic of,"What Men are looking for in marriage".

April 25th- Baba Ali is back with a new video!

April 22nd- Half Our Deen reaches 4.5 million page views, Alhamdulillah.

April 13th - Half Our Deen reaches 500,000 visitors, Alhamdulillah.

April 25th- ‎Baba Ali appeared on the Sameer Eats show Sameer Eats show. Watch it on YouTube ·

April 1st- Emel runs a special feature on Half Our Deen.

Mar 26th- HOD holds its first ever Offline Event in Orange County. 10 matches were made. Sheikh Muhammad Faqhi made a special appearance endorsing HOD Online and Offline! Check out the pictures and video from the event.

Mar 13th- Baba Ali holds a webinar on 'How to know if they are the one?' in conjunction with iPOET. Due to popular demand, part 2 of this webinar will be scheduled soon InshAllah.

Mar 11th- Baba Ali is interviewed on One Legacy Radio (OLR). Listen to the entertaining interview.

Mar 4th- "Muslimness" runs a special feature on 'How to sign up on Half Our Deen?'

Mar 1st- 78 Half Our Deen members informed us that they found their match, Alhamdulillah.

Feb 28th- The New Match Preferences Module is released. Search using 15 different filters. Save your searches for quicker results.

Feb 22nd- HOD introduces new compatibility tests for members. Take the new Would you Marry? compatibility test.

Feb 20th- Elan publilshes an article on Half Our Deen's latest Success Story.

Feb 16th -Muslimah Media Watch publishes a special feature on Half Our Deen.

Feb 7th - After 80 hours of development time, the all-new, state of the art HOD Messaging System is launched!

Feb 6th - First HOD Offline event is set and booked for March 26th, 2011 in Orange County, CA.

Feb 5th - The Offline version of Half Our Deen, hodoffline.com hodoffline.com, is launched successfully.

Feb 2nd - 12th couple from HOD gets married! Who’s next?

Feb 1st - The What’s New page of Half Our Deen launches showing the progress and latest features of HOD.

Jan 31st - In the month of January 2011, HOD got 550,000 page views and 63,649 visitors.

Jan 27th - 5000 fans on HOD Fan Page

Jan 24th - 4000 fans on HOD Fan Page

Jan 19th - Muslim Matters features HalfOurDeen.com

Jan 12th - The first HOD Muslim Personality Test is designed and tested successfully.

Jan 10th - Elan Magazine features HalfOurDeen.com

2010

Dec 31st - 10th couple to get married off HalfOurDeen.com in 5 months! Who's next?

Dec 27th - Baba Ali's marriage videos have been watched over 500,000 times

Dec 20th - Added Zubair to our programming team to help program new features

Dec 18th - Added Date of Birth field to Edit profile page.

Dec 16th - 250,000 visitors to HalfOurDeen.com

Dec 15th - Added Michael to the programming team to help program new features

Dec 13th - Added author of "Before the Wedding" (Munira Lekovic Ezzeldine) to HalfOurDeen.com team to further improve our compatibility tests

Dec 11th - 3000 likes on FB fan page

Nov 25th - HalfOurDeen.com FB fan page is launched

Nov 17th - HalfOurDeen.com adds "HOD Polls" which helps members learn what the other gender really thinks about sensitive subjects.

Nov 16th - Added Afra to marketing team to help bring new people to HalfOurDeen.com

Oct 13th - 1000 Active members using HalfOurDeen.com

Oct 3rd - Added Faran to our programming team to improve member experience and to program new features on HalfOurDeen.com

Sep 27th - HalfOurDeen.com reaches 1 million page views

Sep 26th - Added a new server to double the speed and improve member experience

Sep 17th - Competition panics after successful launch of HalfOurDeen.com and tries to buy similar URLs

Jul 18th - HalfOurDeen.com launches Try out Half Our Deen