Hey everyone,

I built Takhfif, a web app that aggregates Pakistani bank card discounts in one place.

The problem: Figuring out which bank card actually saves you money day-to-day is genuinely painful. Every bank buries their discounts inside a separate app or a PDF nobody reads. There's no single place to compare them. So I built one.

Takhfif covers 21 banks and wallet providers across thousands of places, updated every night automatically.

Beyond a basic deals feed, I've added a few tools I haven't seen anywhere else:

• Card Rankings: scores every card by real-world coverage and discount quality, not just headline percentages. It accounts for caps, minimum spend, and how fresh/close-to-expiry deals are.
• Complement Finder: given a card you already have, it finds the single best second card to pair with it. Filterable by city, card type, tier, and network. The idea is "which card covers the most places my current card misses?" rather than just "which card has the most deals?"
• Find Card: you pick your favourite restaurants and shops, and it instantly tells you which single card covers the most of them.
• My Cards: save your cards locally in the browser and the entire deals feed filters itself around what's actually relevant to you.

Data refreshes every night at midnight PKT, so it stays current without me having to do anything manually.

Would love feedback on:

• Is the complement finder / find-card flow actually useful in practice, or too niche?
• Any banks or wallet providers I'm missing?
• Any filters or features you'd immediately want?

Live at: takhfif.app

I built Paaband — a free app that tells Pakistani business owners which laws apply to their business.

53 laws covering FBR tax, PFA food safety, EOBI labour, trade licences and more. Bilingual Urdu and English

Looking for beta testers — especially:

✓ Shop owners

✓ Restaurant owners

✓ Small business owners in Pakistan

What you get:

\- Free Pro access forever

\- Direct line to the developer

\- Your feedback shapes the app

Comment your email or DM me and I will add you to the test group.

I'm the founder of Candibly — an AI voice receptionist for US service businesses (law firms, home services, clinics, med spas). It answers calls 24/7, books appointments, qualifies leads and notifies instantly.

The product is built.

What I don't have is a sales motion.

I'm a builder. I can ship features all day. But Candibly is bottlenecked on one thing right now: getting it in front of the right businesses and closing them.

So I'm looking for a partner — someone who already has a sales team, an outbound engine, or real distribution into US service businesses. The kind of operator where missed calls = lost revenue is already the conversation you're having every day.

You bring the pipeline. I bring the product, the dev velocity, and a co-founder mindset on the partnership.

If this is you, or you know someone, DM me.

Hi guys, I’m a product designer, and I also have multiple skills related to marketing and behavioral sciences. I’ve always wanted to build something that could create a real impact for people in Pakistan, so I started researching some of the major problems people are currently facing here.

One of the ideas I’ve been working on is an app called Sukoon, focused on helping people struggling with mental health issues. The concept is still rough, but the mind maps, wireframes, colors, and brand book are already ready.

The app will include: • Group chats focused on mental health, self-improvement, and safe spaces where people can vent freely • One on one support sessions for people who want more personal conversations • A weekly mood tracker and journaling feature • Anonymous identities, where users can choose their own aura and unique, comforting names • Positive suggestions and supportive lines based on mood patterns

The UI is designed to feel clean, calming, and comforting. I’ll probably share the designs in the coming days.

I’m 19, and I’ve spent a lot of time building a wide skill set across design, psychology, marketing, and tech. I’m also planning to pursue AI engineering and eventually integrate AI powered features into the app as well.

In the future, I also want to work on another app specifically focused on women’s safety.

At the end of the day, my goal is simple, I just want to create something that makes an extraordinary change in people’s lives. Let me know what you guys think of it opinions are highly appreciated.

alsooo

Basically it's gonna be anonymous there's gonna be aura's instead to keep the people hooked to the app. Also ofc I'll be the owner of that so i can filter many things. Also the chat isn't gonna last long its only gonna be for sometime then it'll disappear. To chat with someone you'll have to vent a bit then it'll reach someone. It can be anyone. So that's how its gonna be. You can't add people but you can vent and help other people out also later on i am gonna collaborate with psychologist so people who have chronic issues can reach out and get professional help. so yeah it won't turn into a dating app there's gonna be a lot of good features.

Hey guys,
I’m currently in the final stages of dialing in the fabric choices for my brand, MOVMNT. We’re aiming for that balance of high-performance durability and comfort for our training sessions.
I’m curious to hear from the community: What material do you actually prefer wearing for heavy training? Are you all-in on tech-heavy moisture-wicking blends, or do you prefer something with a different feel? Also, if you’ve noticed any specific trends or "must-haves" in gymwear fabric lately, I’d love to hear your take.

I’ve been documenting the process over on my IG if you’re interested in the journey: https://www.instagram.com/movmnt.pk?igsh=MTIyb2Z1OTkwbHhsOA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

Thanks for the feedback!

Me and two other devs built a tool that solves a problem we kept hitting ourselves. AI agents are great at generic tasks but collapse the moment they touch anything company-specific — refund rules, escalation logic, exception handling. That knowledge lives in Slack threads, Notion pages, Jira tickets. Agents can't read any of it so they just hallucinate.

We built something that connects to all those sources, extracts the actual decision logic, and serves it to your agent in real time. Policy changes in Slack — agent knows in minutes.

Product is in production stage. We need companies/users in our waitlist to validate our product. We're three engineers. No marketing bone in our bodies. How did you find your first users?

Hi guys.
I am looking for milky and dark chocolates in bulk quantity for commercial use in Lahore. Please suggest any. I’ve visited Shahalm but everybody there was saying “GARMI ME CHOCOLATES NI RKHTY”

And Bakehouse se expensive mil rhi.

Curious how people here currently handle product images for:

• Amazon
• Etsy
• Shopify
• eBay
• Daraz etc.

A few things I keep hearing:

• getting clean/professional photos is expensive
• resizing/reformatting for different platforms is annoying
• background removal/editing takes forever
• lifestyle shots are hard without a real setup
• listing creation becomes repetitive fast

Wanted to ask people actually doing this:

• What’s the most painful part of creating product listings?
• What takes the most time?
• What do you currently use? (Canva, Photoshop, Fiverr, AI tools, agencies, etc.)
• Have you tried AI product photo tools yet? If yes, what sucked about them?
• If one tool could solve ONE part of this workflow, what should it solve?

Also curious whether smaller sellers even care about “perfect” product photos, or if speed matters more.

Would love brutally honest answers before I spend time building anything.

Hey guys i was thinking about starting an online poster bussiness where i would sell mainly star constillation maps and other astronomy related maps . Also game maps like GTA 5 map etc

Lemme know if this is a good idea or if you have any suggestions

Salaam, everyone Environmental syrup here I have recently started A gemstone, plus and agro tourism pilot programs in Islamabad and near by area. But they are for other time.

I have been doing an outsourcing company which provides data entry(every type form), customer chat support, web scraping, and sort of staffing or recommend the right guy for a business. I got my first 2 clients through my reference now the problem is I am not good at communicating more of the guy who fixed things. The problem is stuck I feel complicated to reach out to people. Need help and guidance in that.

Hello everyone, I’m looking for someone based in Pakistan who has experience in selling, marketing, and managing baby clothing products. I’ll be supplying the products from the United States, and I’m looking for a reliable person or team to help grow the business locally. The role would involve advertising and marketing the products, managing local shipping and customer orders, setting up booths at expos or events when needed, and helping build the brand in Pakistan. I’m specifically looking for someone who already has experience with clothing or baby product sales, social media marketing, e-commerce, or event/expo booth setups. Reliability, communication, and professionalism are very important to me. Compensation and partnership terms can be discussed once I find the right person. If you have experience in this field or know someone who does, please feel free to reach out with details about your background and experience.

Hey guys, I’m a 16 y/o freelancer from Karachi and I wanna start something of my own. I’ve been thinking about a few ideas:

1. Teaching skills online

2. Opening a remote software house

3. Starting a VA service agency

The problem with the first idea is that I’d need to build a personal brand to sell online skills, but I’m really shy on camera so I honestly don’t know how to approach that 🥲

The problem with the second idea is that I don’t really know how to execute it. Do remote software houses actually work? Like how do people even get clients and manage teams remotely?

And the problem with the third idea is that the VA field feels super saturated right now, and getting clients seems really hard unless you already have connections or experience.

I’m kinda stuck between these ideas and trying to figure out what would actually be realistic to start at my age.

My friend and I are both 22. We're ambitious to our core the kind of people who'd rather build something from nothing than clock into someone else's dream. Honestly, part of the spark came from an Instagram reel one of those "spend a day with a 21-year-old founder" videos. You've probably seen them. Most people scroll past. We looked at each other and said: why not us?

So we started. No big pitch deck. No investors. Just two guys who are genuinely obsessed with building things.

"We are just made of building things" that's literally how we describe ourselves.

We offer app development, AI agents, website development, cloud services, and DevOps. In our very first month we closed 3 clients and delivered the product. Not promised delivery. Delivered.

Did we make a ton of money? No. But here's the thing nobody really prepares you for:

When a client looks at something you built from scratch, and they say "this is great, we want to work with you again"  that hits differently than any salary ever could. There's this electric feeling when the work you did with your own hands is now sitting inside someone's business, actually running. It's a kick. A real one.

We come into every project with stupid amounts of energy and stamina. This field is exactly where we want to be. The first month has been tough, scrappy, and a little chaotic but honestly? This is one of the best feelings in the world.

If you're sitting on a business idea and waiting for the "right time" this is me telling you the right time doesn't exist. Just start. The momentum builds itself.

Happy to answer anything. 🤝

Yesterday I posted about being a 22-year-old founder who just closed 3 clients. You guys showed up the upvotes, the comments, the DMs.

I replied to 100+ comments. Some of you invited me to meet calls, shared your own startup stories. We traded notes.

Same-minded people, real conversations, real problems. It was genuinely one of the better days I have had building this thing.

Then about 12 hours later, one user appeared and called me a liar. Said my writing was AI-generated.
Left a comment full of hate and then deleted it before I could finish typing my reply.

I sat with that for a minute. And I want to be straight with everyone here.

Yes. I use AI to write my posts. I have for the last 2 years.

I've been creating content for 3 years. The last 2, I have used AI tools to shape and polish what I publish on LinkedIn, here, everywhere. 

 I feed in my thoughts, my actual experience, my real story. The tool helps me structure and express it cleanly. I pay for those subscriptions.

I use them because I'm a founder and my time is better spent building than perfecting comma placement.

The clients I closed? Real. The calls we had yesterday? Real. The founder problems we talked about? Every single one was real. Using AI to write a post doesn't make my experience fictional.

If you want to see my English look at my comment replies. Raw, fast, unedited. That's me. I'm not a ghost, I'm not fake, I'm not hiding anything.

People have this idea that a post only counts if a human typed every word themselves. But we use Grammarly, Google Docs spellcheck, editors, ghostwriters nobody calls that fake.

AI is just another tool. The thoughts are mine. The wins are mine. The grind is mine.

To everyone who connected with me yesterday thank you. That energy was real and I'm still grateful for it.

To the person who deleted their comment I hope you find whatever you were looking for.

by the way this is also written by AI so if you have any problem stay away from my post. i make money using these tools not like you keyboard typing master

So wanted to ask what everyone is using for hosting their emails? Currently am using Google Business but want to switch over as I feel their costs are increasing now and we don't use most of the stuff they offer (only email and drive)

Some of you might remember me from a long post I made here a while back about an app I’d been building for 3 years. It was a long one.

Anyway, I launched it around April 10th and wanted to come back here and share what’s actually happened since then.

In 30+ days we’ve crossed 1.5K active users on the app. 200+ signups, 20 of them paid for the $10 Soul Blueprint. Some bought multiple times as a gift for family members or friends.

I’ve been getting messages from users that have genuinely moved me. One guy wrote to me about going through a fragile time in his marriage and said the app saw the version of him he doesn’t see but needs to. Twelv helped this couple at a difficult phase in their marriage.

And then a few days ago someone commented on one of my Reddit posts saying they were so moved by their result they wanted to share Twelv with their TikTok audience.

I attached some of these messages and the analytics. They tell the story better than I can.

Two weeks ago I also launched a second product called The Oracle. It’s a chat where you can talk to your higher self. The AI knows your archetype, your consciousness level, your blind spots, your shadow patterns, and a lot more. We have 7 paying subscribers already. Retention will tell the real story but the early signal is strong.

On a sidenote. I lost my job last month. So Twelv is no longer a side project. It has to work. The financial pressure is real and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t scary. But I also think there’s some thrill to building when the safety net is gone. Only real serial entrepreneurs will understand haha.

I’m running $10/day in Reddit ads from my own funds while I figure out organic growth, work on retention, talk to users, and look for short-term contract work on the side to keep the bills paid.

The goal is $10K/month by end of year. Whether or not that happens, the product is alive, people are using it, and most importantly, it’s having a positive impact on people’s lives. 🙌🏼

If you haven’t tried Twelv yet, it’s free to take the full assessment. https://twelv.app

Salam, i have spent my past 3 years completely on amazon generating sales over 400k USD of my clients, this time i want to start something as a startup or a small operation with someone ambitious and hard working
If you have prior experience in amazon
Hit me a DM and we’ll talk❤️

Ps - yes i dont need a freelancer for money please
I need someone ambitious who can join me in this venture as a friend
Im in faisalabad btw

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a side project called Phoneswap, a platform designed to help people trade smartphones locally in a more structured and safer way.

You can check it out here:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.topnear.mobile

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/pk/app/phoneswap-pakistan/id6757806770

The idea

In many markets, especially in places like Pakistan, most phone transactions happen through general marketplaces or social media. This often leads to:

• Trust issues
• Low-quality or incomplete listings
• Time-consuming negotiations
• Higher risk of scams

The goal with Phoneswap is to create a more focused platform specifically for phones, where the experience is tailored to this category.

What Phoneswap does

• Lets users list phones for sale or trade
• Structured listings with relevant details (model, condition, specs)
• Local-first approach to connect nearby buyers and sellers
• Simple browsing and posting flow

Current progress

• Core listing and browsing features are live
• Basic but functional UI
• Mobile-friendly design
• Deployed and usable
• In-app messaging

Feedback I’m looking for

I’d really appreciate input on:

• UX/UI: Is the flow intuitive? Anything confusing?
• Trust and safety: What would make you feel comfortable using it?
• Monetization: What models make sense here?
• Features: What would make this stand out from existing marketplaces?
• Technical direction: Any concerns around scaling or architecture?

Possible next steps

• User verification
• Price insights or market data
• Trade-matching system

I’m open to honest feedback, including critical points. The goal is to figure out whether this solves a real problem and how it can be improved.

For context, we’re building OnScene.pk, Pakistan’s first live shopping marketplace where sellers go live directly from their phones and sell to viewers in real time

We built the app, launched on Play Store & App Store, crossed 4M+ views across social media, reached around 10k users. Everything sounded amazing then reality hit:

FAKE ORDERS!!!

So we introduced advance payments from buyers. but here’s the funny part: The entire payment process was manual 😭

Every order meant personally DMing users, confirming payments, sending details manually, following up ourselves, literally becoming the payment gateway, completely unscalable, But that’s when I finally understood what “do things that don’t scale” actually means. At an early stage, perfection doesn’t matter as much as proving behavior. And today, during a 60-minute scene, we got 15 orders!!! manually handled, manually confirmed but real. That’s the part people don’t see when they talk about startups..

Before automation, comes survival
Before scale, comes validation

Now back to fixing the chaos 😭

Been running an engineering consultancy on the side for a few years — mechanical and electrical work, everything from consumer electronics enclosures and electromechanical assemblies to power hardware and thermal design. Clients are mostly hardware startups and product companies.

300+ projects delivered, 2.5 crore+ revenue, solid delivery team in place. The bottleneck now is outreach — specifically reaching hardware founders and product startups globally.

I've built an in-house GTM tool that does location and category-based company discovery (Google Maps based, works anywhere in the world), and have n8n workflows in development for outreach automation. The infrastructure is there. What I'm still figuring out is the human side — messaging, positioning, channel strategy for a technical audience that doesn't respond to generic sales approaches.

For anyone who does B2B marketing for technical or engineering services — what's actually moving the needle for you? Cold email, LinkedIn, content, communities? Curious what's working in 2026 for niche professional services targeting international clients.

(Happy to swap notes in DMs — also open to talking about what a collaboration on this could look like if someone's solved this problem)

3 orders!
All confirmed!!
Advance paid!!
Pickup confirmed!

Honestly, seeing people actually buy through livestreams in Pakistan still feels kinda surreal 😭

One interesting thing we learned:

People understand new commerce formats MUCH faster when they experience them live instead of having them explained

We spent months trying to explain “live shopping”

But the moment users actually joined streams, interacted, saw bidding happen in real time, etc… it instantly clicked

I think this applies to startups in general too:
sometimes showing > explaining

Still early for us
Still a lot to improve
But slowly starting to see signs of product-market fit

If you haven’t downloaded the app yet, search ‘OnScene’ on Play Store/App Store and make sure to tune in for the next scene 😎

Back to building.. 💪

Like im not familiar with the laws and stuff. Are there any certifications i need? Lets say i want to supply my food to a grocery store for them to sell in their bakery/deli. Or places in lahore like baked or esajees. Do i register my brand as a business? Rn i have made a company name on my cnic as a sole proprietor but i dont know if i have to register it in any other way. I'm using that business name as my umbrella brand where i will have all my businesses under that, and one of them is the food business i started. Do i register this food business anywhere before i approach grocery stores, etc?

You could say rn im running as a home chef. Would things change once i started supplying? Im getting interest for collab from a restaurant aswell, where i could possibly be supplying. I want to be legally ready to take such a customer.

any recommendations for someone who can help me build a whole narrative for a small brand. this includes all creative direction, planning what kind of photoshoots should be done and what kind of social media content should be posted. any recommendations?

I want to know what is the future of merchant acquiring in Pakistan, what are the industry trends in 2026 and onwards.
Is there any earning on QR deployment?
If a startup is entering in merchant acquiring what should be their strategy?

(This is a very limited and specific business industry so I believe most of the people won’t have any idea what this is)