Is there any option of signing up with a local payment gateway that allows accepting payments from International customers primarily in US, Canada, UK and Australia. What is the pre-requisite and what are the costs involved.
The transaction amount will range between USD 200 to USD 2000.
Since 2022 I've run www.dubaivisa.pk, an online platform that helps Pakistanis apply for UAE visit visas. It has brought in roughly AED 640K in revenue (about AED 370K from visas and AED 270K from Dubai tours). Here's what four years taught me:
Your biggest risk can be a government decision. When the UAE paused visas for Pakistanis, our revenue crashed overnight. However the situation has returned to normal now for several months.
Selling extra services adds up. About 1 in 5 visa customers also booked tours. That second sale ended up worth almost as much as the visas themselves.
An exact-match domain is worth more than it looks. We barely spent on ads. For years, Google sent us people already searching for exactly what we sold.
Owning your platform matters. We moved from WordPress to our own portal, where customers apply, upload documents and download their visa. It made the business easier to run, and easier to sell.
I'm now selling dubaivisa.pk. I'm focusing on my education ventures, and with visas for Pakistanis reopening, this is the right time to hand it over. The sale includes the domain, the portal and the social pages. It's best suited to a travel agency or a founder in the travel space.
If you're interested, or know someone who might be, DM me and I'll share the full numbers. Happy to answer questions about the business in the comments too.
Thank you to everyone here who helped with closed testing
A little while ago I posted here asking for people to help test PakBill during closed testing.
A lot of you actually installed it, tested it and gave useful feedback.
That helped me fix issues, improve the UI and get the app ready for release.
PakBill is now officially live on Google Play. 🇵🇰
For anyone seeing it for the first time, PakBill helps you understand your electricity bill instead of just showing the final amount.
It breaks the bill into things like:
• Energy charges
• Taxes and duties
• Fuel price adjustments
• Fixed charges
• Other adjustments
It also has bill history, due date tracking and support for multiple connections.
The biggest thing I wanted to solve was simple:
Most of us pay our electricity bill every month without really knowing what makes up that amount.
PakBill tries to make that transparent.
Thanks again to everyone here who helped during testing. You genuinely contributed to getting it released.
If you try the public version now, I’d still love to hear what should be improved next.
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I’m looking for someone who is visionary, creative, and genuinely interested in building a startup from the ground up.
I’m currently offering 49% equity in a startup project I’ve been working on for quite some time. I’ve already done the market research, business research, execution planning, and initial groundwork, and the project is now moving toward the MVP development stage.
The reason I’m offering such a large equity share is simple: I need to clear some personal dues and arrange enough initial capital so I can properly focus on executing the project instead of constantly worrying about finances.
A little about my background: I’m a Software Engineering graduate, and my FYP was selected for the Ignite program. Through that, I’ve had experience pitching in front of investors and interacting with startup founders and people in the ecosystem. That experience also helped me understand the difference between a project that is simply technically good and one that actually has business potential.
I’ve identified what I believe is a large problem through deep market research, and the project has some interesting modules that I believe could give it significant potential if executed properly. I’m not looking to simply sell an idea — the research and execution plan are already there, and I want to move toward building the MVP.
I’m looking for someone who can bring some combination of:
Business/entrepreneurial mindset
Creativity and vision
Networking or industry connections
Willingness to actually work on building the company
I’m not looking for someone who just wants to invest and disappear. I want to find someone who genuinely wants to be part of the journey and build something potentially huge.
I’ll share the actual business idea, research, financials, and execution plan privately with serious and interested people.
If you’re interested, DM me with a little about yourself, what you bring to the table, and why you’re interested in startups.
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Does anyone use this and can recommend it? The fees seem to be lower than with Shopify, so I'd appreciate any feedback, including pros and cons.
It's going to be long so please bare with me. I am looking for a female to partner up with my existing e-commerce venture, it's an old e-commerce business and has been quite popular as well approx 7 years old now. I shut it down last year and discontinued the operations because of some persistent family health and medical issues. But since then I have realized that social media has changed a lot. People need a face to resonate with, they need someone who they can relate to and trust( previously the things were different), so just the online ads and paid marketing does not work at all. For context its a women fashion apparel brand , entirely hardcore western, so I would like to partner up with someone who is quite comfortable with the same kind of outlook herself, i have other similar brands that i have created to which i can partner up as well. I would like to share profits rather than giving up a salary, where the partner has an equal say and all the roles and responsibilities are divided, i am not asking the partner to invest a single penny, i will be taking. the financial risk where as i want the other person to be involved and actively help and manage the day to day activities such as, content idea, when to post, what to post, and is upto date with the trends and has the capability to set trends as well. i have all the necessary resources and relevant teams such as designers, marketing professionals who can carry out the job, just need a figure head and face for the brand. So if someone who is serious about this and sees a future as an entrepreneur i would love to discuss with the right person, once again i am clarifying that this is not a paid salary job, it's a partnership. So please keep that in mind when you contact me. There is no specific degree or work experience that is required at all. The only thing that matters is how creative and enthusiastic you are with the work itself. This is an ongoing thing so ut requires frequent meetings, discussions and constant communication, with me plus with the others as well. So if you have any issues with going out of house or want this whole thing to work just online over zoom meetings and calls, i do think that is going to work at all. Because your participation will be required to check the stock, the fits , any photography related work etc. I would appreciate if people commenting on the post be civil about this, as this is not a rant and i am hoping people understand and just bash for fun. Thank you for your time.
So if you have read this so far. then comment and i will message you (if you're out of karma) , or HMU.