Six bootstrapping rules from Amir Erfani, an Iranian tech founder in Dubai, drawn from Shipnow's 6000% growth without outside investment and applied to TaskLoop and Duvita.
Amir E
Sep 19, 20265 min read
Hospitality, restaurants, real estate, logistics and marketplaces: five industries where Iranian founders can build tech businesses in Dubai, each with a real product example.
Amir E
Sep 17, 20264 min read
Sepano Data Processing has delivered national-scale paperless systems and IoT-plus-AI traffic control since 2008. The lessons behind them, and how they shape products built for Dubai.
Amir E
Sep 15, 20264 min read
Duvita and TaskLoop are SaaS products built for Dubai by an Iranian tech founder's team. What they learned about choosing verticals, building for UAE customers and shipping across borders.
Amir E
Sep 4, 20263 min read
How an Iranian tech founder's team brought automation patterns proven in transport, restaurants and hotels to Dubai real estate — listings, lead capture and sales workflows.
Amir E
Sep 1, 20263 min read
A case study of Shipnow, the online transportation system founded by Amir Erfani in 2016 that became the most used platform of its kind in Isfahan, Iran — fully bootstrapped.
Amir E
Jul 26, 20262 min read
How Duvita grew from an internal tool into a full restaurant operating system — digital menus, order capture, cashier, inventory and real-time sales reporting, built on Nuxt, Node.js and PostgreSQL.
Amir E
Jul 12, 20262 min read
TaskLoop manages rooms, housekeeping shifts and staff tasks for hotels in Dubai — a case study in building operations software for the hospitality industry.
Amir E
Jul 5, 20262 min read