Fabogo

UAE's Top Beauty & Wellness Portal

Cofounded what would become one of the top most salons, spas and wellness aggregators in the Middle East and India. Single handedly developed the initial production prototype.

As Co founder, I developed the initial iteration of the site, set up Amazon Server assets and developed mobile apis as part of the bespoke lean startup. Currently run/manage as part of an extensive remote team having migrated the application to a leaner stack for greater scalability and converting it to a Single Page Application.

Funded by Dunamis Ventures and run by a passionate team - this is the largest beauty and spa portal in the region as of now.

IndiaWide

Holiday home booking - before AirBnB.

Think AirBnB before AirBnb was even a thing - atleast not in India at the time. A simple yet highly comprehensive vacation home booking application where home owners could put up their homes for booking by vacationers . Homes would be inspected and on approval go live on the site for booking - booking w ere made in realtime with the option for home bookers to pre-pay and make payments in two installments. At the same time Home owners could block out days and even monitorin realtime the status of their home bookings. Both home owner and home bookers could review each other i.e the property and the tenant. Payments would be made online and commission earned over each booking. Built on the powerful Zend Framework the site was immaculately developed and the initial response was highly promising.

The site had a huge successful stint during the first year of operations - however the influx of other similar sites and airBnB saw the site shut down after around 5 years of business.

BigReach

Easy Social Media Management for Businesses.

Project description Co Founded a simpler approach to social media marketing for businesses. Intended to be a SAAS based application where businesses could monitor social media activity on their facebook, google and twitter accounts. The application was built up using AngularJS as well as on a Django Stack - as a concept it functioned as an effective reporting tool to social media services provided to the client.

Whilst as a concept it was revolutionary and very well accepted at the start, the project's SAAS feature had to be disbanded within the second year of release and is currently assimilated into an internal reporting tool.

Eat Repeat

Custom Food Ordering Apps for everyone.

Restaurants had had enough of cutting out a percentage to food ordering sites that would simply send orders their way - we so came up with a simple solution. Tailored apps for restaurants on a subscription basis - worked with our team who set up a powerful generator to quickly bootstrap apps for android and ios. Built a corresponding merchants web panel to supplement the merchant apps. Menus can be tailored at will with a a wide scope of modifications possible. Accept cash on delivery or online payments.

Realtime analytics on orders and much more at a fraction of the cost to building a custom app.

The Car Lovers

Car Enthusiaists social community of the UAE.

Before facebook became the status quo for setting up an online community, this was an exciting venture into building our own GCC based cars enthusiasts community. Simply done and coded sans framework, visitors could access posts and reviews on new vehicles and upgrades as well as flaunt their own vehicles and post on an integrated message board.

Coded in a bespoke membership system as well as an admin panel to control every level of the site. Was literally coded as a bit of a gag to see how fast we could put up a community website and in less than 100 hours we were online and within 30 days of going online had acquired more than 200 active accounts on merely word of mouth. By the time the site was disbanded we had almost 120'000 listed user accounts.

Slurrp

Food rating like never before.

We had enough restaurant review sites and discover engines for the best restaurant around. But what if you wanted to know where to get the best Chicken Pasta in town? Or how about finding the best Philli Cheese Steak served in gluten free bread with organic chicken. Thats what drove us to build Sluurp - the app where its the food you rate and not the restaurant.

Check into a restaurant and rate that shawrema you've just had - so everyone can know how awesome/not so awesome it was. The proof is now in the pudding.

Women in Aviation - Middle East

Wordpress Website + Social media for Women in Aviation - Middle East Chapter

The first ever regional chapter for Women in Aviation for the middle east. Required a customized CMS backed website plus social media startup package. Customized a wordpress theme and set up a corporate/membership based website using wordpress. In addition to launching the site I also set up social media assets and commenced a simple social media promotions campaign.

Canadian 2 for 1 Pizza

Canada's best loved Pizza in Dubai.

Dubai's first Canadian 2 for 1 Pizza franchise needed a new website and some heavy duty social media promotion. In addition to churning out a simple but practical website, I conducted their social media activities for well over a year increasing brand awareness ultimately leading to increased footfall.

As an incentive I also handled all graphic design requirements which included banner design, menus design / printing as well as compiling display videos and digital menus.

Sigdi Restaurant

Indian dining establishment gets an online presence.

Sigdi boasts as being one of Dubai's best kept secrets when it comes to Indian food. The restaurant needed a website upgrade so a wordpress website was in order. Built off a theme - the site was quickly deployed and SEO ready.

I introduced food blogging as a means to market the restaurant, thus founding Mirs Musing the official food blog for sigdi. Based upon the character of Mir Baqawal i.e the minister of the kitchen in the times of the Mughals, I was responsible for managing social media activity as well as content marketing plus graphic design.

Ramjet Aviation

Corporate website for regional aviation support company

Wordpress based corporate website for one of the regions most respected aviation support companies.

Site was built on the X-theme and consists of a blog that I maintained during my time at the company. In addition to the corporate website, I also managed the company's social media accounts as well as worked on a myriad of niche CRMs and portals for the company.

Gulf Times

Wordpress based CMS for newly launched local English language daily

A popular news daily required an online web presence for a newly launched English language daily.

I customized and set up a wordpress theme complete with additional features such as:

• News Categorization - to segregate news
• Bespoke Real Estate Listings module for real estate inquiries.
• Set up WPClassifieds for a dedicated classified section for the website - customized to match the websites look and feel.
• Bespoke Job board based off Wp-Classifieds, completely integrated into the main websites backend
• Ad rotation system for banner ads

The site design went through a number of iterations during development and was heavily optimized to withstand heavu traffic.

Elgreco Dubai

Contemporary Greek cuisine gets a website and ordering system

Key contemporary Greek cuisine needed a better website and an effective ordering system that was completely inhouse.

I put up a wordpress based website and in addition, built an Angular based online food ordering system to cater to the clients requirements. Complete with a consolidated backend to recieve and dispatch orders as they come in. Completely api driven and hosted on Amazon Servers.

Lingohouse DMCC

Customized wordpress site for local language institute.

Newly established language institute required a customized website as well as a social media promotion package.

I built up a site based off a base theme and modified it to showcase the language classes and training sessions the institute had on offer as well as provided social media promotion services during the company's launch.

Social media promotiins included designing custom educational content geared towards language training. Successfully built up a growing community of users for the lingohouse institute.

Millionaires Business Club

Custom CMC/Membership site for Elite Business Club

An elite business club in Dubai needed to set up an innovative membership system. Built originally on a Zend Framework base - this was a membership system that included mentor based roles.

Was actively involved in the initial branding and brainstorming sessions for the business process as well as development of the initial prototype for the site. The original site included along with a tier based membership system, plus special accounts for users to provide mentorship roles for guiding users on their path to making a fortune.

One1Info

Ras Al Khaimah based business news/community website

This is a local news site that covers business news from a regional perspective. Complete with a business classifieds as well as exclusive reporting.

The site is based off Php and includes multi-role users that include business experts and bloggers. In addition it also includes a listing section with banner ads plus direct inquiry widgets.

RAK Gas

Custom Corporate website for regional gas company

RAK Gas required a compelling corporate website. This was an initial attempt and building a quick to update website complete with a simple backend that was quick to load.

I also built in a simple flash banner complete with animated sequences and background audio. The site also had a complete admin panel to modify pages and set press releases.

Kulcha King - Online Ordering

Angular based ordering engine for local Indian restaurant chain

One of Dubais much loved Indian eateries needed an online ordering system. Based upon Angular with a Laravel backend - I put together a simple yet compelling online ordering system that integrated with an existing orders dispatch and handling system that I had built for the client.

The front end took into consideration complex menu combinations and works seamlessly on all major browsers and is mobile responsive. The site also includes integration with Mastercards payment gateway api. Orders come in and update the order panel in real time with pusher integration plus users recieve email alerts on the status of their orders.

Saadias Studio and Salon

Social media services for top beauty salon in Lahore

Popular salon in Lahore wanted social media promotions ervices. This included preparing and executinga social media strategy that highlighted the salons services as well as increase local awareness and capture potential leads for the client. Alot of focus was on the salons many beauty treatment deals and promos which rotated on a weekly basis.

This involved setting up compelling social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and required compiling beautiful video presentations, graphics as well as corresponding with inquiries for the client. Along with the social media content I ran a number of successful ad campaigns to increase user count as well as promote seasonal promotions. Campaigns resulted in 300% increase in inquiries for the client as well as increased walkins by 12%.