Writing

Projects

The products and companies Ali Adnan Haider Darwish has built, one by one.

• Building arabian.ceo: a sourced record of Arab business leaders

  What arabian.ceo is: a bilingual platform of executive profiles, companies, leadership moves and lists across the Arab world, part of BHD Group.

• Building Cardify: business cards for a whole team in Oman

  Why BHD Group built Cardify in Muscat, and what it does: bilingual digital and printed cards, QR codes, wallet passes and scan analytics.

• Building Dardasha, a shared WhatsApp inbox from Muscat

  Why BHD Group built Dardasha, its WhatsApp business platform run from Muscat, what it does, and the trade-off we accepted.

• Building Jamiya: an app for the family savings circle

  Why we built Jamiya at jamiya.om, and what it does: a turn schedule, payment records and a private link for every member of a savings circle.

• Building Mithaq, board software in Arabic and English

  Why BHD Group built Mithaq, a bilingual board governance product that keeps board papers, decisions and actions in one place.

• Building Splitty, a group expense app in 52 languages

  How BHD Group built Splitty, a trip and group expense app with a shared kitty, 52 languages, any currency, and apps on iPhone and Android.

• Co-founding Hosn, AI that stays inside the institution

  Why I co-founded Hosn with Mohammed Al-Adawi, and how Hosn deploys AI at the customer's own site in Oman.

• Cups made in Oman: CupsByAA and Cups Factory

  How CupsByAA and Cups Factory sell custom printed paper cups made in Muscat, on the BHD Printing & Designing machines in Al Seeb.

• Paper & Pen and Q+: two products from one ERP engine

  How Paper & Pen, a free cloud ERP, and Q+, a business system for service shops, grew from the ERP that runs BHD Group.