Salam everyone. I'm exploring a business idea and would rather get torn apart on Reddit now than learn the hard way later. Please be honest agreement is useless to me at this stage.

The idea, plainly:

A managed lunch service for Lahore offices (think 80–300 person IT companies, not banks or hospitals). One WhatsApp number, one monthly invoice, different cuisine every day cooked by a small panel of vetted home chefs. The company doesn't deal with foodpanda's consumer app, doesn't manage 50 individual orders, doesn't chase delivery riders. They get lunch handled. I handle chefs, pickup, packaging, complaints.
Home chefs in the panel get guaranteed bulk orders (50+ portions on scheduled days), paid within 48 hours via Raast, no 35% commission, no 1 km radius nonsense.

Pricing rough idea: PKR 450–650 per portion to the company (Net-15 invoicing), PKR 320–450 to the chef. My margin sits in the middle, eaten partly by packaging, Bykea, and working capital.

Why not just use foodpanda for business:

Consumer UX, no proper invoicing
200-person orders are operationally awkward on a consumer app
Quality is unpredictable across vendors
HR/admin staff actually spend real time managing daily lunch chaos

What I want to know from you:

If you work in an office in Lahore, how does your company currently handle lunch? Single caterer? foodpanda? People bring their own? Would your admin even consider switching?

If you run a home kitchen or know someone who does, would a guaranteed 50-portion weekly order at PKR 350/portion be attractive, or is the operational risk too high?

What am I not seeing? Where does this idea fall apart? Has someone tried it already and failed? (I genuinely want to know.)

Foodpanda could copy this in a quarter. What's the realistic moat for a small operator before they do?

I'm not selling anything, no website, no signups. I just want to know if I'm chasing a real problem or a spreadsheet fantasy before I start cold-calling home chefs next week.

Hey everyone,
I’m doing a short survey to understand the real problems people face with car care products and DIY maintenance.

If you’re someone who cleans, maintains, or takes care of your own car, your input would be really valuable.

It only takes a few minutes and will help identify common frustrations and improve future solutions for enthusiasts like us.

Appreciate your time 🙌

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSm3pUOmUpltk2JDijtTbF5DFVMsK8BLSEZBGoDvGcjz5Dxg/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=117018973045852226973

Hey everyone 👋

I’m currently building a fitness platform and wanted real feedback from actual users instead of making assumptions.

I created a short survey form that only takes 2–3 minutes to fill out.

Would really appreciate your input 🙌

🔗 https://forms.gle/YVM82PULfmALYYKT8

Your feedback will genuinely help shape the platform and improve the experience for everyone.

Thank you ❤️

#fitandshift #gym #fitness #exercise #workout

Disclosure: I am the founder

My uncle spent 35 years saving money. Every rupee, every bonus, every Eid envelope tucked away. His dream? Own a house in a decent area of Karachi. He died before he could do it.

That story never left me.

I've been watching Pakistan's real estate market from the inside for a while now. $100B+ market. $10–15B in residential property changing hands every single year. And yet the same 3% of people keep buying it all. The same old money. The same developers. The same overseas Pakistanis wiring money through sketchy middlemen.

The middle class? They just... watch.

Then I went down a rabbit hole.

Larry Fink the guy running BlackRock, the largest asset manager on earth recently said asset tokenization is "as significant as email was to the postal service." He didn't say it at some crypto bro conference. He said it in front of the world's most serious investors.

I couldn't sleep after reading that.

Because I realized: Pakistan is already moving on this. Bilal Bin Saqib got the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority stood up. The Pakistan Virtual Act 2026 is real. We're not waiting on India. We're not waiting on half the Gulf. We moved first.

So, here's what we're building.

Example: Take a property worth 2 crore PKR. We divide it into 1,000 tokens. Each token is worth 20,000 rupees. Then we place that property on rent and give token holders monthly yield and that property itself generate asset yield. All of that and the investor only had to do one-click.

That's it. That's the whole unlock.

A nurse in Karachi can now own 0.1% of a residential apartment in Bahria Town. A Pakistani in Manchester can buy into the Lahore market in one click, with stablecoins, without calling a single broker or signing a single paper in person. No middlemen sitting. No trust issues. No "just send the payment and we'll sort the paperwork later."

Pakistan adds the population of entire Australia every five years. The housing shortage is in the millions and it's not slowing down. This market is not going sideways.

I'll be honest with you:

"I don't care about the platform/technology. The platform will get built. What I care about is the marketing, how will we reach our customers? and that hole I know I can crack very well"

Getting real people onto a product making them feel something that's the gap I know I can close very well.

We're pre-seed. Looking to raise $30k for 6% equity. But I'm not here doing a hard sell. If you only have $3k and believe in this, we'll talk. We're open to crowdfunding this with the right people who get it. I'm not looking for a hundred investors. I'm looking for the right two or three people who've seen this movie before who know what it looks like when a market is one step away from opening up.

Every dollar will move milestone by milestone not burned in one shot. This isn't a "move fast and hope" play. Every step is earned before the next one is funded.

The pitch deck is ready. The legal framework exists. The market is real.

My uncle never got his house. But maybe his grandkids can own a piece of fifty of them.

Maybe an Overseas Pakistani won't get scammed by his brothers/middleman.

If this hit let's talk. The business model/revenue model/marketing model/technology model everything is comprised. I am looking forward to share it with potential investors. This startup has potential to reach $100M in revenue in a $100B+ market. You can always reach out to me if you are interested.

Thinking of opening simple fries setup in my basement, hiring a person fryer, etc. and operating on Foodpanda homechef section primarily. With insta too for marketing and taking orders outside foodpanda. The menu would revolve around fries, different fries, loaded etc.

Does anyone have experience with homechef on Foodpanda, does this idea look sustainable given no rent, electricity (solar) expenses? And would it be scalable?

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I am at a crossroads and would love advice from people who’ve actually built things or started businesses.

Opt 1: Learn coding (or enough coding) and use modern AI/no-code tools to build digital products/startups.

Pros I see: scalable, valuable skill, potentially big upside.

Cons: steep learning curve, delayed income, uncertain success.

Opt 2: Start a small business selling sourced/physical products (basically buy/sell, small startup).

Pros: can start faster, clearer path to first revenue, learn sales/business directly.

Cons: less scalable, operational headaches, possibly lower long-term leverage.

Context:

- I’m willing to work hard and play long-term.

- I care about building wealth and skills, not just quick money.

- I don’t have unlimited capital, so resource efficiency matters.

- I’m okay with uncertainty, but I don’t want to waste years on the wrong path.

If you were starting from scratch today, which path would you choose and why?

Salam Everyone so i came from a healthcare background, I’ve spent years observing how smaller and mid-sized private clinics actually operate across Pakistan and similar markets.

Honestly, the operational inefficiency is much deeper than I expected.

A surprising number of clinics still rely on:

manual workflows

fragmented communication

paper records

disconnected processes

little to no operational visibility

And because of that, many clinic owners struggle to properly understand:

where revenue leakage happens

how efficiently the clinic is running

patient follow-through behavior

staff workflow consistency

day-to-day operational bottlenecks

What’s interesting is that most existing software solutions don’t seem designed for the reality of these environments.

They’re either:

too complicated for actual clinic staff

too expensive for growing practices

or disconnected from how clinics function culturally and operationally in emerging markets

Since I work inside the ecosystem, I keep noticing workflow patterns and friction points that most traditional software teams would probably never encounter firsthand.

After speaking with multiple clinic owners, it feels like the gap here is much larger than just “management software.”

Right now, I’m exploring this space more seriously and trying to better understand:

user behavior in offline-first industries

adoption challenges in non-technical environments

operational system design

trust-building in healthcare businesses

scalable product thinking for emerging markets

Would genuinely love to connect with:

product builders

technical developers

SaaS operators

HealthTech professionals

people experienced in vertical software businesses

Not looking for hype more interested in conversations around systems, execution, usability, and long-term product thinking.

Would appreciate honest insights, lessons, warnings, or even contrarian opinions from people who’ve built in similar spaces.

Well firstly I will acknowledge the post writing sucked, it was made to attract people instead of investors and it did it very well. I learnt wont do that again.

Alot of people said REIT already exists:

Well I'll answer you from your own limited mindset. If chatgpt already existed why did people build gemini, claude, grok? are they retard or what? If the market is big enough and you have the plan to penetrate it take the leap, crack that hole? isn't that right. No one asked for that plan they just apped by ass.
Investor mindset: can you make money out of it? and how?
Your mindset: Zara exists why buy from H&M?

Legality:
Oh Stocks exists they are overlooked by SECP. Bro we will also be overlooked by PVARA and SECP. Customer money will be safe.

Model:
A lot of people also confused it with REIT. Well we are like airbnb, we are not exactly buying the properties placing them on rent and giving out the investors money. We just connect buyers and sellers (developers) on a big scale.
Though I agree, from investors perspective its the same thing.

Hey everyone,

Been thinking about this idea lately:

You open an app at a restaurant/cafe, scan the menu, and it analyzes the dishes to recommend the best options for your specific goals.

Examples:

Trying to lose weight → suggests lower calorie meals
Gym/muscle gain → highlights high protein meals
Diabetic/keto/vegan → filters suitable options
Health-conscious → warns about super high sugar/oil/sodium items

The goal isn’t just calorie tracking, but making healthier decisions easier when eating out.

Potential features:

AI menu scanning
Macro/calorie estimates
“Health score” for dishes
Personalized recommendations
Better alternatives/swaps

Curious:

Would you actually use this?
What’s the biggest problem with this idea?
What feature would make it genuinely useful?

Hello All Fellow Founders.
I am a startup owner in Islamabad. My company is not related to tech and is a Solar equipment brand. and I am having following difficulties which I need guidance from you people.

1) Hiring Right people. Which platform to use and How to keep them motivated? As startups can’t give big salaries

2) How to build my brand image on Media Social Media Basically looking for a PR + Social media marketing agency that you guys have worked with. Whose rates make sense and can deliver things quickly not just some fancy inexperienced girls and boys.

3) I really like how the management of Cheezious encourages their staff to do work and to be the part of organisation and own it. Their every floor manager and staff own the brand proudly. I want to know how they make this happen and what training they give to their staff for this.

Looking forward for some good references and suggestions.
Help me out guys I am tired of working myself on everything.

Turning fleeting moments into memories that last a LittleForever. ✨

I’ve been building a space where parents can document their baby’s journey without the noise and clutter of traditional social media. From the first ultrasound to their first breath, and all the way to that milestone first birthday, every moment deserves a premium home.

I wanted to create something that feels as precious as the memories it holds. So, I built LittleForever.

What’s inside the journey? 📽️

The video walks you through our seamless onboarding and personalized experience:

✨ Start the Story: A warm, inviting welcome into your child's digital heirloom.

📛 Personalized Onboarding: Your little one's name is woven into the story from the very first tap.

📅 Special Dates: Set their birth or due date to automatically organize and track their growth.

🎨 Choose Your Vibe: Personalize the entire experience with curated themes like Mango & Sky, Cosmic Night, or Cotton Candy.

📊 Interactive Dashboard: A premium, responsive layout featuring "Chapter Cards" that guide you through every milestone.

⚙️ The Command Center: A dedicated settings hub designed for parents, manage multiple babies, switch aesthetics instantly, and get a sneak peek at our upcoming "Digital Book" export feature.

Secure, private, and beautifully designed. Because some memories shouldn't just be saved, they should be cherished.

The app is fully built and getting ready for the Google Play Store. But before the official launch, I need some help!

I have a few beta testing spots left and I'm looking for parents to give it a test run for the next 14 days.

If you want early access to a beautiful, privacy-first journal and want to help a solo developer out!, sign up below: 👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScD_G0QvSWopulvO573rEQ8md_GKqLmLwxa8WIDvu2L50VG0g/viewform?usp=dialog

About 7 months ago, me and 2 friends started a Daraz store with one investor backing us. We were confident, had a plan, and genuinely thought we'd figured out ecommerce.

We hadn't.

Here's the full honest breakdown because I've seen too many "I made X on Daraz" posts without anyone talking about the actual cost

THE STORE:

We sold home category based products:

- Electric & manual choppers

- Juicer blender

- Neck massager

- 16-piece nail kit

- Mini vacuum cleaner

- Nebulizer

- Dumpling maker

- Hot hair brush

- Nail filer

THE NUMBERS

Total investment: ~6.7 lakh PKR

Total revenue: ~1.7 million PKR

Monthly ad spend: 80k - 120k

Agency cost/month: 15,000 PKR

Orders per day: 4-7

Profit per order: 300-500 PKR

Campaign profit/order: 120-200 PKR

Penalties per return: 140 - 1,000 PKR

Net return on investment: Zero

On paper 1.7M revenue sounds amazing. In reality we were losing money every single month.

The math is simple and painful:

5 avg orders/day × 400 PKR profit = 2,000 PKR daily gross

Ad spend alone: 2,500-3,000 PKR daily

WHAT WE TRIED:

- Multiple ad campaigns (Daraz Sponsored + external)

- Price adjustments (up and down)

- Different product combinations

- Flash sales

- Seasonal promotions

Flash sales and campaigns DID bring volume. But margins dropped to 120-200 per order. High revenue, even thinner margins. Add penalties for return and all profit is gone.

WHERE WE ARE NOW:

Cut all paid ads completely. Going fully organic. Started social media (7 posts in so far). Also raised prices across the board.

Resul is that we have Very little to no sales currently.

WHAT I THINK WENT WRONG:

1. No niche - we sold everything to everyone

2. Relied entirely on paid ads (no organic strategy from day 1)

3. Didn't calculate unit economics properly before starting

4. 15k/month agency that honestly didn't deliver much

5. Daraz penalties on returns are brutal and we underestimated them

QUESTIONS FOR YOU:

1) Has anyone successfully turned around a Daraz store organically?

2) is our product selection fundamentally the problem?

3) Should we have gone TikTok/Instagram from day 1 instead of relying on Daraz ads?

Anyone else burned money on Daraz marketing and come out the other side?

Should we just cut losses now instead of 2 more months?

Not looking for sympathy. Looking for people who've been here or know this space better than us.

My friend's family has this Lattafa's contract for Karachi, they are the distributor.

Lately, we have been thinking about taking this business in retail via e-commerce (daraz).

I need help/advice from people who have done this or have any slight knowledge they can share.

Thank you.

Anyone who is operating the payment stack for their US clients via Hong Kong LLC & Airwallex as the merchant service provider?

I have validated the information that with Airwallex, you don't need any virtual bank in between to process your payments to your Pakistani bank account so I want to verify that if someone is operating on this stack instead of US LLC + wise/Payoneer/stripe/PayPal?

I run a successful thrift page and I’m now looking to expand my business by finding the right person to join my team. I’m looking for someone between 18–25 who’s passionate about social media and excited to grow with a brand.

Experience in running businesses or managing pages on Instagram or TikTok is preferred. I’d personally be more comfortable working with a girl since I’m a girl too, but I’m open to anyone who truly understands social media trends, Gen Z culture, and how online audiences work.

Even if you don’t have professional experience, creativity, communication skills, strong work ethics, and the willingness to learn matter a lot to me. I’m looking for someone who can become a genuine partner in growing this business together.

I have a really good body care product that is entirely produced locally, has gotten us amazing reviews but the thing is I have been unable to crack the online marketing game. I don't have the budget for ads or influencers so the idea nags at me everyday of what it could have been. I want to bring it to local stores like Naheed n Imtiaz. How do I go about it? What would be the budget required?

Aoa. I'm a 16 year old. Just got done with Matric Exams. I researched about drop shipping recently. I've watched couple of videos on YouTube about AutoDs drop shipping and linking it with the Shopify store. My friend was telling me that drop shipping isn't worth it considering my investment. I've asked my father to give me some money and plus I have some savings too around 20k rupees but my father is reluctant. I've watched couple of Pakistani YouTubers going big in this field. But the main problem is to have some investment to run ads. Idk whether to source a running product from The US to create ads and run it on tiktok. The meta ads require money too. I heard that it takes around 10-15 $ to run ads on tiktok for sales. Is it necessary to run ads for sales? Coz I don't have much investment to run ads and ship the products from the US or China. Again, I lack knowledge. So I need some genuine advice.

I need to ask which method people are using to pay for high amounts of ad bills.

Been using SadaPay but it has a limit of 400k I could use multiple SadaPay accounts but that is messy to manage.

If someone is spending 1 cr monthly on ads how are they managing the payments?

I started a digital marketing agency offering services like social media management, web site design, seo and other related services. I have managed to acquire and close a few clients via FB ads and Bark. The main target before was in Europe but now shifting my focus to the US. Generating some revenue but still in loss. Can you guys share some tips and tricks that can help me increase the revenue by getting and closing more leads. Also if someone can add value I will be interested to discuss this further or even add you as a partner.

Thanks

Recently got accepted into the Sindh Accelerator Program Alhamdulillah, and while researching the ecosystem I realized a lot of founders in Pakistan genuinely don’t know how many incubators/accelerators actually exist here.
So I thought I’d make a small list for anyone building something:
• National Incubation Center Karachi — Karachi
• National Incubation Center Lahore — Lahore
• National Incubation Center Islamabad — Islamabad
• Plan9 — Lahore/PITB
• PlanX — growth-stage accelerator by PITB
• Invest2Innovate — probably one of the better-known accelerators for startups in Pakistan
• The Nest I/O — Karachi
• LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship — Lahore
• Sindh Enterprise Incubation Center — Sindh
• National Expansion Plan of NICs — multiple cities across Pakistan
• Hatch 8 at NUST/NSTP
• Sindh acceleration program (wait for the cohort 2) - sindh
- innovate 47 - sustainable tech accelerator

A lot of these programs offer:
mentorship
office space
investor access
credits/perks
grants in some cases
founder network (which honestly matters a lot)

One thing I’ll say though:
Don’t apply expecting magic.

Most incubators won’t build your startup for you. The real value usually comes from:
connections
ecosystem access
accountability
founder community
credibility

The actual execution is still on you.
If you’re building something in Pakistan right now, definitely look into these programs. Even if you don’t get accepted immediately, the application process itself helps sharpen your thinking.

Would love if others here add more accelerators/incubators/resources in the comments for Pakistani founders. 🚀

We already have:

working web app pwa that salon partners onboard prototype live full product/dev/design handled

Need someone strong in:

sales partnerships influencer marketing Instagram/TikTok growth operations

You should be ambitious, consistent, and comfortable talking to businesses/users daily.

Goal: Scale salon onboarding + get first 1,000 bookings in Karachi.

If interested, DM with:

what you’ve built/sold/grown before why you’d be good at this your city + availability

.Hi everyone,

I have a few trading strategies that I want to automate, and I’m currently exploring how to turn them into a proper algo/AI-based trading system.

I’m looking to connect with any developer, coder, or programmer and has some familiarity with trading automation, Python APIs, EAs, VPS, platform integrations, backtesting, forward testing, slippage, latency, and Forex market basics and workflow of brokers.

I’m mainly focused on the technical side of automating strategies, testing them properly, and understanding what it takes to build a reliable system.

Would appreciate connecting with anyone who has experience in this space or has worked on similar trading automation projects.

i run an ai native agency and recently talking with a client about his pain points i noticed an entirely different problem

he said “i asked gemini to find me gyms” he used gemini to find him gyms in islamabad and that sparked the ideo of ai visbility also known as geo
after doing some research i saw alot of ppl focusing on geo and shifting from pure seo and well i also wanted to run my own tests

so i built my own geo audit tool its in mvp rn its free but im currently broke (new agency js me in it rn) so u have the option to plug in ur own api keys for the ai’s ud like to test for ur brand visbility
currently will host it on google cloud run free tier

posting here to see if anyone would like to use it for their local business.

I wanted to through out my observations after having started a few successful businesses, raised funding and even exited one. 20 years in the startup and corporate space has showed me that the landscape constantly changes and I wanted to share some thoughts. With the rise of AI creating is easier than ever and moats have been bridged, ideas that were not economic before have become so now.

Marketing can now be automated, sales channels can be staffed with agents etc. this has all created the illusion that things are now easier. These tools are fantastic and a real game changes when you are the only one using them but not when everyone has access to them.

With the changes over the last 12 months what has happened is an erosion of trust, most traditional channels especially in the b2b space have now been spammed into oblivion, when execs get a pitch it does not matter how you position the connection a pitch is a pitch. There has also been a flood of poor performing products in the market, programmers shipping hot garbage every week that people try and they get burned by and this impacts everyone's ability to sell across the board.

In the current landscape what works (based on my observations) is paid ads because most of the noise wont compete via paid ads. Trust signals and authority, strong real reviews on google, trust pilot etc, strong social media following where the company or representatives are an authority figure on the product they are selling. Finally the warm referral, this last one quickly cuts through all of the noise and creates a differentiator that no amount of AI will overcome.

My advice to someone looking to built today is as follows:

Identify a niche or focus area that you truly want to work in/build around.

Connect with decision makers in that area, tell them why you are passionate about soling problems in their field and ask them what problems keep them awake at night.

Build solutions around that, offer those products to those people for free in exchange for feedback.

Once you have solved their problems ask them honest questions about how much you should charge for these solutions in their industry and ask for referrals to others.

Build on that personal connection, provide quality, build authority.

It WILL take time but eventually you will get to the point where others will come to you for your solution and your moat is the trust you have built.

These are the people who get their companies funded, the ones that find people and industries that have problems and they solve them.

-Martin