r/PakStartups

Does anyone in Islamabad (girls only) want to start an eastern clothing brand with me?

I want someone who can invest around 20-30k (i’ll be doing the same). We can share ideas, I have few ideas in mind. I have around 50k in savings likin I don’t want to spend them all, issliyae I am looking for a brand partner.

We’ll each get 35% separately and 30% in joint account which we can use for new articles aur account promote krnae kae liyae

I am looking to create a tool/software for Pakistani freelancers that would act as their second brain essentially.

So the concept is that freelancers forget info from their old projects/clients that they could learn from, like metrics, what they did that worked and what didn't worked etc..

My software would act as a saving, tracking and learning tool or freelancers. Where they could save their client's info and when they get a similar client, they got use the learning metrics from the software to provide the best results for their client and themselves.

If you can make this idea better I would really appreciate some suggestions. Thanks.

Assalamalaikum,

I am looking for some ideas, I am making a Software for Pakistani audience - Freelancers Primarily - and would want to get some ideas on what to create. I need a PROBLEM that freelancers face that could be solved with a tool/software, but there are no good options for pakistani freelancers.

I would really appreciate if anyone who is a Pakistani freelancer or has been a freelancer to give me some problems they have faced. So I can make a Software around that and hopefully solve that problem for other freelancers.

Thanks

I am investing around 6 crore to open a premium restaurant in a renowned mall in Lahore. I want to understand the best ways/platforms to find excellent chefs for my restaurant. The idea is to turn this restaurant into a brand and for that to happen I will need excellent quality food.

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

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. 🤝

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)

I incorporated a private limited company in Pakistan for my startup. My is in the following format "A123456-7"

I tried to apply on payment gateway sites but they require a fully numeric NTN. What do I do now?

I’m exploring solo-owned passive income opportunities that I can build and operate independently.

Interested in models like:

• Micro SaaS

• AI automation tools

• Digital products

• Subscription-based platforms

• Content monetization systems

• Niche web apps

• Automated lead generation systems

• Small online businesses with recurring revenue

My goal is to build long-term, scalable income streams without partnerships or large teams.

Would love to hear what passive or semi-passive business models are actually working for solo entrepreneurs in 2026.

Hey guys,

If you work in an office in Karachi (Shahrah-e-Faisal, Clifton, DHA, I.I. Chundrigar, etc.), you know the daily struggle. Come 1:30 PM, the entire office is scrolling through Foodpanda or calling local dhabas. Half the team wants Biryani, someone wants a roll, someone is trying to eat "healthy," and by the time you coordinate and order, you’ve wasted 30 minutes, paid separate delivery fees for every individual order, and the food shows up cold because the rider got stuck in traffic.

My friends and I are launching a corporate meal management service right here in Karachi.

The idea is simple: We partner directly with Cloud Kitchens to bring curated weekly lunch and dinner plans straight to your office. One consolidated delivery, fresh food, zero individual delivery fee headaches, and the company gets billed monthly (or employees can pool in).

Why am I posting here? > We are about to pitch to our first batch of HR managers and business owners, but we want to make sure we are actually solving your biggest workplace food frustrations.

• What is the biggest issue you face with office lunches right now? (Hygiene? Limited options? Price? Timing?)
• Would your office HR be open to a free trial to see how much productivity/money it saves?

If you think your office needs this, drop a comment or DM me. We'd love to chat and maybe bring some free tasting samples to your team!

So I have decided to sell pixi beauty products in Pakistan. But I am a bit confused about the pricing cause I am taking a loss selling at it at such a low price. One of the main reasons I am doing that is to build an audience at first and then increase the price at which I will become profitable. And before other haters say that my products are fake no they aren't. I have found a wholesaler that provides these products for my store and for other stores as well. Second option that I am considering is to increase the price however I am concerned that I won't be able gather enough customers. What do you guys think?

I would prefer if females give their insights as well since my target audience are you guys : ]

Also should when do you guys think I should register my business here cause Firstly I know for a fact as soon as my business starts generating more than 10 lakhs per month I will get taxed heavily. Are there any other options available?

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

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 😭

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.

Hey guys, i developed an app recently. Was more of a weekend project but I ran with my community and everyone thought i should go live with it.

I wonder what's the best platform to post about it and get some feedback. I am getting 100s of users organically via google search but asking people for a feedback is like begging in Pakistan unfortunately.

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)