Hi, I'm Aliff. I write, I guide, and I build.

Where I'm at now

Updated November 2026.

How I got here

From writing about other people's products to making my own.

1. 2019 to now

   Volunteer bus mapper, Moovit

   Adding and checking routes and timetables for Rapid Penang, Rapid Kuantan, myBAS Ipoh and Perak Transit.

2. 2019 to 2026

   Content writer, Alan Copywriting Services

   220+ articles and 400 content briefs for brands like Frase, Häfele and Boutir.

3. 2021

   Bachelor of English Studies

   English language and literature, Open University Malaysia.

4. 2022

   Podcast marketing, Evolve & Adapt

   Research, editing and show notes for One Eye Deer, a weekly podcast that passed 2,000 downloads.

5. July 2025

   Founded Tour With Alan

   Guiding visitors around Penang, and an arrival guide for their first hours in Malaysia.

   Tour With Alan

6. September 2025

   Founded TechMavie Digital

   Live transit apps, the API behind them, and the tools I run my own servers with.

   TechMavie Digital

Things I've made

Apps and a game I build and run. Each link opens in a new tab after a quick check.

• Malaysia TransitLiveLive buses, trains and ferries across Malaysia: arrivals, fares and journey planning. Free to use.

  Also for developers and AI assistants: the Malaysia Transit API and MCP server.

  Community voices

  Positive community feedback on Malaysia Transit

  Positive comments shared publicly on Threads, shown in full in their original wording and language.

  Collected on 3 Oct 2026.

  Really appreciate the effort you put into developing this web-based platform using the API data from data.gov.my. It’s great to see the data being transformed into a practical and user-friendly platform. Thank you for making such good use of the data, this is really impressive work! 👏🏻🙌🏻

  Wow.. Bagus bro..

  So cool!

  Thanks you...very useful...

  thank youuu, very useful for me who uses public transport 100%

  thanks bro

  Thank you for the initiative. I will check this out.

  Great initiative 💪🏻

• SG-JB TransitLiveSingapore and Johor in one view, with fares in SGD and MYR and live cross-border services.
• Tour With Alan: the arrival guideLiveFrom plane to platform: which bus or train to catch from your terminal, with visa, SIM and payment tips.
• Wira Bandar PCVersion 0.4A free city-building and public transport game for Windows, a fork of OpenTTD.
• MavieChatComing soon to the App StoreAn iPhone app for AI you host yourself. Open source under the MIT licence.

More of my work is at techmavie.digital.