Get a technical co‑founder
You know the market and the customer. We join early and own the technical side: architecture, build and scale.
- You bring
- Market insight · Customers
- We bring
- Architecture · Build · Scale
- Together
- Shared risk and upside
UAE and GCC software engineering for founders and agencies
Build your product. Fix what blocks it.
Bilingual web and mobile development, Arabic/RTL delivery, and scoped repairs for existing apps. Choose a product build, a specific fix, or an engineering partner for your agency.
Your engineering kitchen
You own the client, the strategy and the design. We build the product behind the scenes, under your brand, to a fixed scope and price.
Fix & Finish
Have a website or app that needs fixing?
Get help with broken checkout, API errors, unreliable imports, deployment issues, or unfinished features.
- 13products designed, built and shipped end to end
- EN · ARArabic and English, with right-to-left done properly
- 48hfrom an agency brief to a written scope and quote
- 20 minfirst call, with a senior engineer, not a salesperson
How the work splits
Clear lines of ownership, from the first call.
Whichever door you came through, the split is the same, and it is written into the scope before anyone writes code.
You own
We own
The vision and the market
Architecture and data model
Your customers, or your client
Build, QA and security
Product priorities
Delivery, with weekly demos
Brand and go-to-market
Documentation and clean handover
The final call on scope
Production readiness and support
Selected work
Real products, built and running.
Products we designed and built end to end, from marketplaces to AI. White-label client work stays confidential.
Katib
Fintech · Web & mobile
Private loan records with gold, silver and currency references, installment schedules and two-party approval. Web and mobile, in English and Arabic.
- Challenge
- Loans between people are usually informal: amounts, asset values, and repayments live in chats and memory, and disputes follow.
- Our role
- Designed and built the product end to end: gold, silver, and currency-backed loan records, automatic installment schedules, two-party approval, and payment proof uploads.
- Outcome
- Live at katib.app on web and mobile, in English and Arabic, with overdue detection, counterparty confirmation, and a free-forever plan.
Agents247
AI customer support · SaaS
An embeddable AI chat widget that answers from a knowledge base, captures leads and hands off to humans. One script tag, Arabic and English.
- Challenge
- Small businesses lose website visitors who leave without asking, especially outside working hours and when they prefer Arabic.
- Our role
- Designed and built the SaaS: an embeddable AI chat widget answering from a knowledge base, lead capture, human handoff, analytics, and tiered billing.
- Outcome
- Live at agents247.app: installs with one script tag, supports Arabic and English with RTL, and runs on free, starter, and pro plans.
PkgTrace
Developer security
Grades the maintenance health of open-source dependencies from A to F, with team portfolios, bulk scans, webhooks and API tokens for CI.
- Challenge
- Teams depend on hundreds of open-source packages without knowing which are poorly maintained or caught up in supply-chain incidents.
- Our role
- Designed and built the platform: repository and dependency-file scanning, maintainer responsiveness and issue-resolution scoring, supply-chain incident checks, and team portfolios.
- Outcome
- Live at pkgtrace.com: a risk dashboard with project portfolios, bulk scans, webhooks and API tokens for CI, subscriptions, and English and Arabic interfaces.
PropHunt
PropTech · AI · Mobile
Renters describe the home once, in English or Arabic. New matches arrive by WhatsApp and email, each with a plain-language reason.
- Challenge
- Dubai renters repeat the same search across listing sites every day and still miss the right home.
- Our role
- Designed and built the service: natural-language search briefs in English and Arabic, listing matching with plain-language reasons, WhatsApp and email alerts, and Android and iOS apps.
- Outcome
- A renter describes the home once and receives new matches automatically. Listing sources are only ingested with recorded permission.
Shantaa
Logistics marketplace · Mobile
A marketplace for trips, shipments and bids with escrow payments, plus an agency operating system. iOS, Android, web and dashboards on one backend.
- Challenge
- Sending packages across the Gulf–Africa–Asia corridor is slow and costly, while travellers and travel agencies have unused luggage capacity.
- Our role
- Designed and built the platform: a marketplace for trips, shipments, and bids with escrow payments, plus an agency operating system with CRM, invoicing, visa processing, and bookings.
- Outcome
- Live at shantaa.app with iOS and Android apps, a public website, and admin and agency dashboards on one backend.
Arbab Fashion
Fashion retail · Arabic-first
An editorial, Arabic-first storefront where customers browse complete looks and send a ready-made order through WhatsApp.
- Challenge
- A Sudanese fashion brand needed a premium Arabic storefront where customers can browse complete looks and order the way they already buy: through WhatsApp.
- Our role
- Designed and built the storefront: an editorial Arabic-first design, look catalogue with search, colour and size selection, image zoom, and a checkout that prepares a complete WhatsApp order.
- Outcome
- A fast, dependency-free storefront with the brand film, occasion looks, and a guided order flow, deployed automatically on every change.
Trendpfy
E-commerce marketplace · formerly Nashtari
A bilingual multi-vendor electronics marketplace with vendor storefronts, per-vendor commissions, and AED and SDG pricing for the UAE and Sudan.
- Challenge
- Electronics sellers in the region needed one bilingual marketplace that handles many vendors, two currencies, and cash on delivery.
- Our role
- Designed and built the full platform: vendor onboarding and storefronts, per-vendor commissions, catalog, cart and coupons, order lifecycle, and admin analytics.
- Outcome
- Live as Trendpfy (formerly Nashtari) in English and Arabic, selling in the UAE and Sudan with AED and SDG pricing, top vendors, open-box deals, and per-item tracking for multi-vendor orders.
ScanPure
Everyday tools · Android
QR and barcode scanning with link safety checks, a QR generator, and local scan history. No account required.
- Our role
- Built by CodeFounders: scanning, QR generation, scan history, and English and Arabic interfaces.
Athar
Place-based memories · Social
A social memory app connecting notes, photos, and circles to real places, with private and selective sharing in English and Arabic.
- Our role
- Built by CodeFounders: place-based memories, OpenStreetMap maps, and sharing controls.
Mutabaa
Family care · Android
Family medication reminders, taken and skipped dose logs, refill alerts, and vitals tracking, in Arabic and English.
- Our role
- Built by CodeFounders: family profiles, medication schedules, dose history, and on-device health records.
CyclePure
Personal wellness · Android
Period and cycle tracking with symptoms, moods, reminders, and encrypted local storage. No account required.
- Our role
- Built by CodeFounders: cycle logs, wellness estimates, PDF reports, and local backup and restore.
Vieta Store
Fashion · E-commerce
An online store for clothing, shoes, bags, watches, and beauty products, with cash on delivery across the UAE.
Visit Vieta Store (opens in a new tab)Who you'll work with
The people who'll own your product.
You talk to the engineers who build it, not a sales team. The same people stay on your product after launch.
Adam Ahmed
Founder & Technical Lead
Backend engineer and technical lead focused on Java/Spring Boot, .NET and applied AI for fintech and insurance.
Adam Ahmed on LinkedInUnder the hood · Shantaa
One backend. Five front doors.
Shantaa's iOS and Android apps, public website, and admin and agency dashboards all run on one backend, so trips, shipments, bids and escrow payments follow the same rules everywhere.
We draw this before we build. Every project starts with a written architecture: data model, integrations and scaling risks, and you keep the document.
Visit shantaa.app
Front doors
iOS app
Android app
Public website
Admin dashboard
Agency dashboard
Core
One backend APIShared by every app and dashboard. English and Arabic.
single source of truth
Domains
Marketplacetrips · shipments · bids
Escrow paymentsbetween senders and travellers
Agency OSCRM · invoicing · visa · bookings
House standards
The same standard, whoever is on the invoice.
Founders and agencies get the same engineers and the same rules. Every build follows these commitments, and you can hold us to them.
Read the full standards
Our build checklist
6 delivery commitments
- Architecture first before code Data model, integrations and scaling risks designed and written down before feature work starts.
- Every change reviewed every merge No code reaches the main branch without a second engineer reviewing it.
- Automated tests and CI every push Critical paths covered by automated tests that run on every change.
- Secure by default always Least-privilege access, secrets out of code, encrypted transport, routine dependency updates.
- Weekly demos weekly Working software every week, plus a status page with milestones and blockers.
- Clean handover at launch Repositories, credentials, runbooks and architecture notes transferred, so nobody is locked in.
Applies to every founder and agency buildno exceptions
Free · 20 minutes
Start with a 20‑minute call.
Talk to a senior engineer, not a salesperson. You leave knowing whether it's buildable, roughly what it takes, and the biggest risk to watch.
- A straight answer on feasibility
- A rough scope and next step
- The biggest technical risk, named early
No sales pitch. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so on the call.