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My 3-year-old son asked me to take him to Sfax.

I told him: “Not today.”

He paused for 2 seconds, processed the rejection, and immediately proposed the only logical solution:

“Okay, let’s play GTA in Sfax.”

Honestly, I respect the problem-solving.

The reason is probably my fault. He always sees me playing GTA 5, so in his mind every city should have a playable version. Los Santos exists, so why not Sfax? Why can’t we drive around Beb Diwan, get stuck in 18 Janvier traffic, do a mission near the Medina, and then somehow end up looking for parking for 40 minutes like in real life?

The dangerous part is that we already created a few small games together before, so when I said “GTA Sfax doesn’t exist,” he didn’t hear “impossible.”

He heard: “new project.”

So we started building.

He gave very professional 3-year-old feedback:

“Add cars.”
“Add people.”
“Make him run.”
“No, not like that.”
“Baba, fix it.”

After some coding, random testing, many “why is it not working?”, and a very demanding product manager who sometimes leaves the meeting to eat yogurt, we ended up with a first version:

https://sfax.ai/

It’s not GTA Sfax yet. For now, it’s more like: “walk around and imagine the chaos later.”

But he learned a lot, and honestly I did too. It started as a funny idea, but it became a small 3D experience around Sfax, West lebled, and the feeling of exploring the city virtually.

Now we want feedback before the next version.

What would you add to make this more fun?

More realistic streets?
Walking mode?
Cars and traffic?
Missions around Beb Diwan?
Kerkennah boat mission?
Food quests?
Voice in Tounsi/Sfaxian dialect?
NPCs saying “ti barra zammer” or "sa3ida" every 30 seconds?

Please give honest feedback. The founder is 3 years old, but he already has strong opinions and refuses to accept “technical limitation” as an answer

n7eb el liste mta3 el blayes elli nejmou neshrou fihom el kol , a5ta les restaurants mta3 zgal3iya wel mafra5 , bien sur 7aja bel alchool , mouch soft , kll chay les restaurants , les hotels , les bars ! your best places , quoi

ou 2eme probleme , kifeh tnejjem trawa7 fellil wel we7ed bel3ou, setta zit , fammech concept kima el uber ? à part les taxis ou les amis

famma video mana3rafch ken ritouhechi 9bal mta3 we7ed sfay9a fi Paris , commee quoi chaddoulou el moutour fel fourriere , bellehi chkoun 3andou el lien

Mafhemtech, Ye5i mafama 7atta kteb, catalogue, walla 7keya mta3 el mekla sfaxiya ? a zebbi

Lawejt barcha, 7atta fel ma3radh mta3 el kiteb, w ma l9itech 7aja behya tjama3 el patrimoine hedha: bezin, 7lelem, charmoula, couscous bel sbres, dawara, mfawer, 9leya, besbes, mray9a, laklouka…
Moch juste esm plat. Lezem recettes, histoires, saisons, mounesbet, 3lech yettaybou, wa9tech, w chnowa el 7keya eli warahom. 7ajet mawjouda fi mémoire mta3 sfexiya , quoi

L'autre problème :

Taw zebbi marra feyta fel mall , mchit lel 7anout walla bazar walla mana3rafch chisamiwouh elli ybi3 el fazet el traditionelle twensa louta, 9oltelha a3tini 7keya 3ala sfax , 9atli la na7na nbi3ou ken mta3 nebel , a zebbi !
na7na fi sfax walla nabel !

Dort el 3alem el koll, 3omri ma rit blasa tbi3 “souvenirs traditionnels” mta3 blayes o5rin.
7atta el faza el sghira eli tetlassa9 fel frigidére, magnet wala 7aja symbolique, mafamech. Literally, not a single proper Sfaxien product.

Sfax 3andha histoire, mekla, b7ar, west lebled, chaffar, commerce, Kerkennah vibe, 3aylet, artisanat, mémoire… ama marketing zéro. W ba3d nesta8rbou 3lech la3bed ma ta3rafch chnowa Sfax

I wanted to ask about the official process to open a small street selling spot (“nasba / نصبة”), potentially in front of Bab Jebli or Bab Diwan. I have a new concept that I would like to test, and before starting I wanted to understand the required authorizations and who exactly I should contact (baladia / البلدية, police municipale, etc.)

Walla nemchi nhez tawla wa7di ou nendah ! Also, are there specific rules depending on the location or the type of activity? And what are the risks, I mean ynejjem yji el 7akem yfekli el nasba? Ou ken lezem demand 9addeh te5ou bech ta7thar ?

I don’t know if it was only me, but growing up in Sfax, talking to a girl you liked felt very difficult.

Not because girls were impossible, but because the whole environment made it feel heavy. You start thinking: what if she rejects me? What if her family would never accept me? What if I’m not stable enough, not mezyen enough, not rich enough, not “ready” enough? So you stay silent. You act normal. You do nothing. And years later, you realize maybe it was not even rejection , maybe it was just fear, or other things!

The strange part is that many of the guys who felt “not enough” back then are actually successful today. They built careers, left the country, became stable, made money, became much more confident. So you look back and think: maybe the problem was never who we were, but how early we judged ourselves.

And honestly, I think another part of it was the mindset of that generation. In our heads, the number of “beautiful” or “special” girls felt very limited, so the competition looked insane. Everyone liked the same few girls, everyone thought he had no chance, and that made the fear even bigger.

I never “sou7ebt” in the Sfaxian edition before my 20s😅 Sometimes I wonder if I missed something, or if many people lived the exact same thing but nobody talks about it.

So I wonder: in Sfax, how many stories died before they even started?

Fammechi macheri3 , jme3et el barra ennejmou m'investiw fehom , A part annek techri ardh Walla dar ou tekriha , ( macheri3 mayzidou chay el Sfax ) , ou bien sûr hakka 7keya , mafihech barcha investissement mta3 wa9t , 7it sokna le barra nawrouni bel les idées ? 🙏

L'objectif houwa annou el we7ed ken y7eb yarja3 nhar e5or , tkounlou mawled rez9 , ou 7aja t5alli ello chabeb ta3mel el pas mta3 el mo7wel

Demande spéciale chwaya , mais nlawaj 3ala 9ahwa , Walla salon de thé, fiha Internet kes7a , chicha behya ( menthe ou love ) ou wal3a tji kol 15 mins , mouch bech ykasserli kraymi 3al wal3a;

N7eb zeda fiha twawel behin adapter le 5edma bel PC , meaning famma prise ou wraya SaS ( un Mur ) pour la confidentialité

Feha 7ess mais mouch barcha , mouch musica mnayka , atmosphère mta3 5edma quoi

Famma 7keya ki hakka fi Sfax ?

fama tor7 loup garou fi sfax ? chahwa :p dispo période el 3id