Hi everyone, I am a lady currently residing in Ajman,

Am looking for a business partner, capital can be only 5000 AED, I already have the idea, but I need someone serious of any gender, that is ready and serious to cooperate with me.

Thanks

Hi everyone,
I’m planning to bid on some electronics (phones/gadgets) on Ayshei, but I wanted to check with people who have actually used it first.
If you’ve won and received any electronic items from them:
Are the products genuine and working fine?
How is the quality/condition when delivered?
Any issues with warranty or hidden charges?
Please share your honest reviews and experience. Thanks!

My husband and I are thinking of moving to JVC. Does anyone have any recommendations on which buildings are good to live in, or any buildings we should avoid? We appreciate any advice or first-hand experiences. Many thanks! 😊

Any couple meetups or groups here for socializing? Or anyone interested to join if i create? DM if yes.

We're in the mid 30s

Hi looking for Dubai south connections.
Feel free to Dm.

so I have been building this thing called Layla

The original idea was pretty simple:

even dry cleaning/cafeteria businesses in UAE operate on WhatsApp

And then someone on the payroll sits there all day wasting his own time on:

“Price?”

“Are you open?”

“Do you have this?”

“Can I book tomorrow?”

“Do you accept insurance?”

“Send location”

“Hello???”

Then the lead get lost because nobody replied in that 2 min usual bracket

So I thought:

let me try to build this basic chatbot .... 6 months later

Layla.

Its NOT one of those ""hello 👋 I am🤖 your 🤖 AI 🤖 assistant 🤖"" bots the kind that gives you a cookie recipe when you ask if they're open after Friday prayer

i know you think it is but genuinely Layla can actually hold a conversation, understand what the person wants and his intentions from the chat pattern, pull information from the business knowledge base, handle voice notes, collect customer details, send short/long term reminders, follow up with people who ghosted or stopped replying and flag hot leads for the owner so he can contact them later by phone or give them a nudge to take action and it also quietly ranks who's worth calling back so he is not just spamming calls or guessing

NOTE: (BTW IT WORKS IN 5 LANGUAGES AS WELL, Arabic, English, Russian, Hindi, Urdu)

I originally built it for a dental clinic in jumeirah my friend knew a dude who worked there, where it can handle stuff like treatment questions, prices, insurance, appointment requests, reminders, and lead recovery

But I Knew the same concept works for basically any UAE business that makes its money on WhatsApp

Clinics, salons, real estate(i have HOT systems for this if anyone is interested), car dealerships, gyms, agencies, home services, whatever

The idea is basically:

A WhatsApp stops being an inbox and starts being a 24/7 5-lingual employee

And YES, I am currently in the slightly unhinged phase where I am trying to get actual businesses to let me try around with this in production without them paying for the service anything during the 1st week

So I am posting this here instead of doing the usual LinkedIn corporate NPC BS

If you run a business in the UAE where WhatsApp is a major part of sales/customer service, I’m genuinely interested in seeing whether Layla can handle your use case

Worst case: it breaks and I fix it instantly with nothing for you to lose

Best case: we accidentally replace half your front desk repetitive work and capture/score any lead in matter of seconds

thanks for reading and i am looking out for your thoughts here, anything can help 🙏

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Hey guys,

I finished my 1-year contract with GymNation and actually managed to cancel my Plus membership without any headaches. The 30-day notice went through and they confirmed I won't get billed again.

My access runs out on Sept 24, so I need to find a new spot before then. I don't care about group classes, yoga, or any of that. I just need a place with enough free weights, squat racks, and solid machines so I'm not waiting around forever during peak hours(maybe a sauna room and pool too)

My budget is around 250-300 AED a month, and I'm looking around Downtown, Bur Dubai, Karama, or Maritime City.

I was looking at AB Fitness since the warehouse space and pool look sick, but wanted to see if anyone has other recommendations.

Anyone know of any good bodybuilding gyms or hidden gems around these areas that fit the budget?

Thanks in advance :))))

Friendship

Hi all. I own a small Airbnb management and cleaning company. Eight apartments in the portfolio so far, five with individual owners who live abroad, three with a newly formed company. I handle everything end to end, and all of them have stayed with me.
Looking to grow now.
If you own a property and are considering short-term rental, or know someone who is, I'd appreciate an introduction. Same if you're with a holiday home company open to working together.
Happy to answer anything in the comments or by DM.

I’m genuinely curious about something I’ve noticed in Dubai. A lot of men say they prefer women who look natural, but at the same time, it often seems like the women who get the most male attention are the ones with lip fillers, nose jobs, cosmetic procedures etc.

So I’m wondering if there’s a disconnect between what men say they prefer and who they’re actually attracted to.

For men in Dubai, if a woman has had lip fillers, a nose job or other cosmetic work, does that genuinely make her less attractive to you, or do you actually prefer the more “done” look?

And if you were considering a woman for a serious, long-term relationship or marriage, would knowing she had cosmetic work done change your opinion of her?

Hi M48 from the UK 🇬🇧 coming on holiday to Dubai soon. Solo traveller. Would like to connect with females from the south East Asia region. Spend nice time together during the day and at night. Comment if you are interested.

Hey everyone!

I’m 31M, based in Dubai, and I’ve actually never been on a blind date before. Thought it might be fun to step out of my comfort zone and give it a try.

I enjoy exploring new cafés around Dubai, grabbing a good coffee, and having interesting conversations. I’m pretty easygoing and would prefer something simple and relaxed — coffee, a nice café, good conversation, and seeing if we vibe.

If anyone here is also open to trying a blind date, feel free to DM me. 😊

Worst case, we discover a new coffee spot. Best case… who knows? ☕😄

Guys, I moved to dubai last week for work, spent last weekend doing apartment hunting and everything, i ll have nothing to do this weekend knows no one here, any suggestions what should i do, i dont wanna live at home alone and do nothing, is there something fun ( maybe not expensive ), or people to meet and what not.

I’m writing this because I wish someone had written something like this before I entered my arranged marriage setup.
This isn’t a post to destroy anyone’s reputation or identify the family. It is an awareness post because I genuinely believe that families like this still exist, and sometimes they are very good at hiding behind a polished, modern image.
I met this family through an arranged marriage setup. I’m Jain, and they were also a Jain family living in Dubai. When the biodatas were exchanged, everything looked great. Educated family, successful business, Dubai, nice pictures, modern lifestyle. Nothing immediately screamed “toxic.”
In fact, quite the opposite.
They were extremely welcoming in the beginning.
And that is exactly what made it difficult to recognize what was happening.
From the outside, you would probably look at their family pictures and think, “What a modern, happy, progressive family.”
The reality behind closed doors was very different.
It slowly started feeling like one of those Ekta Kapoor serials where everything looks perfect in the first few episodes and then suddenly you realize everyone is controlling everyone. 😭
I come from a Digambar Jain family, but religion was never imposed on me. My parents gave me the freedom to understand Jainism at my own pace and practice it according to my own spiritual beliefs. We eat onion, garlic and potatoes at home. There was never this constant policing of what I could or couldn’t eat.
The family I was marrying into was also Digambar Jain and Gujarati-speaking. At home, they followed a strict Jain diet. Outside the house, they were more flexible.
The interesting part was that the mother was extremely religious, while the rest of the family wasn’t nearly as religious in the same way.
But religion became one of the ways in which control was gradually introduced.
Looking back, there were red flags from the very beginning that I ignored because I genuinely wanted to give the relationship a fair chance.
Here are some of them.
🚩 1. “I only want to meet you. No one else.”
The guy’s mother came from Dubai to India to meet me.
She specifically insisted that she wanted to meet only me and nobody else from my family.
I agreed and met her alone.
At the time, I thought maybe she just wanted some one-on-one time with me.
Looking back, I wonder if it was actually about establishing the dynamic from the beginning: she was going to assess me, not get to know me.
🚩 2. She asked me to remove my sandals to check my height.
During that meeting, she asked me to remove my sandals because she wanted to confirm my actual height.
I remember feeling extremely uncomfortable.
But I did it.
At the time, I told myself, “Maybe this is just an awkward arranged-marriage thing.”
It wasn’t the incident itself that mattered as much as the mindset behind it.
I was already being evaluated like a candidate.
🚩 3. We were invited to Dubai, but again, only under their terms.
They invited my parents and me to Dubai.
But they specifically said they only wanted to meet us and didn’t want other relatives to come.
At that point, I still hadn’t met the guy in person.
We had barely spoken and had only had one video call.
Yet somehow we were already travelling internationally to meet his family.
Again, I ignored the discomfort.
I thought maybe this was just how their family operated.
The guy himself was also extremely inconsistent in communication.
He would deliberately take a long time to reply, and I kept giving him the benefit of the doubt.
“Maybe he’s busy.”
“Maybe he’s awkward.”
“Maybe this is just how arranged marriages work.”
Looking back, I realize I was constantly making excuses for behavior that made me uncomfortable.
🚩 4. Conditions started appearing once the relationship became serious.
This is where things really started changing.
His mother began giving me conditions.
Some of them, on the surface, sounded reasonable.
I had to learn Gujarati.
Okay. I’m not Gujarati-speaking, but I thought, “Why not? I can learn.”
I had to learn certain Jain prayers and rituals.
Again, I didn’t see an issue with learning more about my own religion.
But then came something called PIYAS.
This was my “something is seriously wrong here” moment.
I was expected to go to a naturopathy centre that his mother strongly believed in.
I was uncomfortable with it, but I still went.
I even went with my father.
I didn’t personally experience any benefit from the treatment, and I ended up getting rashes from the oil therapy because it didn’t suit my skin.
But the bigger issue wasn’t the centre itself.
It was the expectation that I should comply with things that I wasn’t comfortable with simply because his family believed they were right for me.
And that pattern kept repeating.
What I initially thought were small compromises slowly became a system.
A system where I was expected to adjust.
To learn.
To change.
To prove myself.
To fit into their definition of what a “good wife” should be.
And whenever I felt uncomfortable, somehow I became the problem.
The family dynamic was extremely hierarchical.
His mother controlled a lot.
His father was very good at keeping score — remembering what they had done for you, what you hadn’t done, what you should be grateful for, what you supposedly owed them.
And the guy?
He was caught in the middle but ultimately always chose his parents.
He would sometimes understand my perspective privately, but when it came to actually standing up for me, he couldn’t.
Because challenging his parents came with consequences for him too.
And that taught me something very important:
You cannot marry someone’s potential.
You cannot marry the version of someone that you hope will emerge once you’re married.
You have to look at who they are TODAY and, more importantly, how they behave when their family disagrees with you.
Because if someone cannot protect your dignity before marriage, marriage is unlikely to magically give them a backbone.
The most dangerous part of this entire experience was that nobody behaved horribly on day one.
It happened gradually.
A comment here.
A condition there.
A judgment.
A demand.
A guilt trip.
A “we are only saying this because we want to make you a better person.”
A “this is how our family does things.”
A “you need to adjust.”
And slowly, you start shrinking.
You start questioning yourself.
You start wondering whether you’re being unreasonable.
You start thinking maybe you’re the difficult one.
That’s how control works.
It doesn’t always arrive screaming.
Sometimes it arrives wearing a smile and saying, “We are only doing this because we love you.”
Eventually, the relationship became so unhealthy that I had to walk away.
And honestly?
I am incredibly grateful that I did.
I am grateful that we didn’t get married.
Because looking back, I can see that I would probably have spent years trying to earn approval from people who had already decided that I needed to change.
This experience taught me something I really wish more people understood about arranged marriages:
DON’T JUST ASSESS THE PERSON YOU ARE MARRYING.
ASSESS THE FAMILY DYNAMIC.
Ask yourself:
• How does the person behave when their parents disagree with them?
• Can they say no to their parents?
• Do they protect their partner when their family crosses a boundary?
• Are you being welcomed, or are you being evaluated?
• Are compromises mutual, or are you the only one expected to adjust?
• Are their “family values” actually values, or are they tools for control?
• Are you allowed to remain yourself after marriage?
• Do they respect your boundaries even when they don’t agree with them?
And most importantly:
🚩 Don’t ignore how your body feels around someone.
There were several moments when I felt an internal “NO” but convinced myself to continue because everything looked so good on paper.
The biodata looked good.
The family looked good.
The lifestyle looked good.
Dubai looked good.
The pictures looked good.
But a marriage isn’t a biodata.
And a family isn’t their Instagram pictures.
Sometimes the most important red flags are the ones you desperately want to explain away because you want the relationship to work.
I’m sharing this because I got out before it was too late.
There is more to this story — MANY more red flags and things that happened later — but this post is already long enough, so I’ll probably write a Part 2.
If you’re currently in an arranged marriage process and something feels wrong, please don’t silence that feeling just because everyone around you is saying, “But the family is so good.”
You are not marrying a family photograph.
You are marrying into a family system.
And make sure that system has room for YOU.

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m a guy currently living in DIP, Dubai, and working as a Quality Executive. I’ve recently started this new chapter of life here and, honestly, living alone can get a little boring sometimes 😅

So I thought, why not try Reddit and meet some new people?

I’m looking to make genuine friends — people who are easy-going, positive and up for random conversations, food trips, exploring Dubai or just chilling after work.

I’m into things like 🏏 cricket, 🏋️ gym/fitness, 🎬 movies & series, 🍔 trying different food, 🚗 exploring new places, and just having good conversations.

Would be great to connect with people around DIP, Jebel Ali, Dubai South, or anywhere in Dubai. Doesn’t matter where you’re from — I’m happy to meet people from different backgrounds.

If you’re also new here, living alone, or simply looking to expand your circle, drop a comment or DM me. Maybe a random Reddit post can turn into a good friendship. 😄

No expectations, just looking to meet some good humans. ✌️