r/StartupsInDubai

I’m a fashion designer in the uae and the job market is disheartening. I understand due to the current state of the world and economy, many companies are suffering but being paid peanuts is something I have faced for a long time.

I’ve always wanted to start a clothing business, nothing big at first, home business for now. I understand uae is over saturated with clothing businesses but my vision is on the niche side. What advice would you give a person in their 20’s taking the risk.

As well as, some advice on how to go about the licensing would be greatly appreciated!

Hey all,

I am currently in the process of setting up an e-commerce business selling beauty tools and face oils and serums. It’s a very humble attempt at trying to build something that can work for me while I get to spend a lot more time with my child as compared to what I get as an ESL teacher.
Work is currently on the lower side and I want to take this time to focus on my business set up. That is unfortunately not possible for me to do at home with school summer holidays coming up. I am looking for B-Hive style free co-working spaces recos, if any. Have been to B-Hive but it gets filled up fast and it will be good to have a back up plan. I can also consider working at cafes that offer free wi-fi- I know these exist but have unfortunately never been to one, so I don’t know of any except French Bakery. Sadly, I don’t like the menu at FB enough to spend hours being there🥴
So any recommendations would be appreciated. Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I'm the founder of Neighbr platform, a UAE marketplace where people can rent items instead of buying them.

We're live, with users and listing, and we got picked up by some pretty awesome publications (super grateful for it all)! But I'm also focusing on the hard part: getting more people to actually know we exist.

I'd love some honest advice from founders who have grown products in the UAE.

If you were in my shoes, where would you spend your time over the next few months?

A few ideas I'm already exploring:

• Partnerships
• Collabs
• Local creators maybe?

I'm also curious if there are collaboration opportunities I haven't considered. If you've built something in the UAE, what channels ended up working far better than you expected?

Appreciate any feedback. Thanks!

If you run a restaurant, you’re probably using 4–6 different systems to manage your business, POS, delivery apps, inventory, accounting, staff, etc.

Quickbuy.io was built to replace all of that with one platform.

https://preview.redd.it/aqa85mxufrah1.jpg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54e05b8795c523d8461b4c328315d8d16747f9b0

It’s a full restaurant operating system that covers:

• Dine-in, takeaway and integrated QR ordering
• Kitchen and waiter workflows (real-time order flow)
• Inventory and ingredient-level stock tracking - Automated daily requisition slips.
• Advanced Menu and variant management
• Employee management and automated shift tracking
• Built-in accounting, invoicing, and financial reports - Automated PO generation.
• Analytics across sales, operations, and performance
• Multi-location management from a single dashboard.

The focus is not just taking orders, it’s giving restaurant owners complete control over operations, finances, and staff in one place.

No switching between tools. No manual reconciliation. No blind spots in your data.

We’re currently working with restaurants in the UAE & India and onboarding new partners.

If you’re in F&B and want a more structured, scalable setup, feel free sign up, we're currently offering a 30 day free trial --> Quickbuy.io

I am Akash, and my team of 4 building an Fintech startup to help business owners with their financial bookkeeping and other issues.

We are working remotely from different places of the world.

Our software is ready, but we are facing a problem.

Problem of “lack of market information”.

So we are in need of some people to work with us, who wants to build maybe a career?
Who wants to work, put in the effort, and be in a team from the start to the end of it.

A road of learning.

We are looking for people from four countries:
India, Singapore, Turkey, and UAE.
To do market research and icp with us.

As we are just starting out,
and pre-seed, we are not able to pay an base salary (all money goes into the R&D).

But after the market research, you will work on the sales with us, and together on every sale of our product, we both will earn the commission.

I know it’s not the best income source,
but we are trying the best to have a name out there with the big players, and without a good team who don’t chase after money and likes to be in work, will can make it.
And I don’t want to sound like I am selling some get rich or dream rich bs.

But one thing I can promise you:

Trust in us, and we won’t disappoint you.

Thanks.

If anyone is interested, you can dm me.
I am open to you all.

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I will give a brief introduction on myself. I am currently working as an entry level manager at a consultancy. We do not deal with digital products, but just consult on a highly specialised area of cost management. But, I want to start a company here to launch my digital products. I have close to AED 5000 and the MVP is ready (but buggy). Managed to get here with my own capital and I am close to exhausting my cash reserves. I need to test the product too, but need some credibility to approach companies. This is a product related to legal and contract automation, so will need some time to clear the bugs too.

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I just need some advice from any experienced person on what I need to focus on the future or what needs to be done to kick off the business. I will have operation in my own country but sales here.

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P.S: I want to start the business now to get experience in the process, because even if the product fails I can start on the next idea with the existing framework.

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Thanks on advance

Sorry if this post is a bit off topic or against group rules, feel free to remove if not allowed

I was recently laid off and honestly trying my best to get back on track,

I have 16+ years of experience in Business Development and Operations across fintech/payments, logistics (logisTECH), and investment-related sectors, My education background is BSc Engineering + Master’s degree

If anyone here happens to know of an opportunity or is in a position to refer/push a CV internally, I’d be truly grateful.

I’ve been actively applying on LinkedIn for a while now, but unfortunately no luck yet

I speak fluent English, intermediate French (still improving), and Arabic as my native language. I’m currently based in France, have legal EU work authorization, and I’m open to opportunities across Europe or worldwide (maybe remotely in that case, but also open to travel when needed)

Happy to share my LinkedIn / CV via DM.

Thank you