From the outside,
it all works.
From the inside, the founder is the engine — manually running something that should run itself. That gap is the market.
Active Members
12,842
+18%Engagement Rate
68%
+11%Messages/Day
3,426
+24%01
Every serious Arabic-speaking community builder is stuck doing the same thing: manually operating a system that should operate on its own.
Reminders
sent by hand.
Every detail
followed up in person.
Content that
lives in a chat thread instead of a home.
Not because they lack tools — because nothing was built to run for them, in their language, on their terms.
MDAAR is that system.
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We started with one type of builder: someone who founded a community around a purpose, is proud of what it's become, and is quietly exhausted keeping it alive by hand.
They don't need another tool to manage. They need the engine to finally run itself, so they can spend their time on growth instead of maintenance.
We can name this person.
We know exactly where to find the next fifty.
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7 signups in 4 minutes
One WhatsApp group.
30++ people reached out directly
Not link clicks, but builders who heard about MDAAR from someone they trust, and came looking for it themselves.
0 paid acquisition
Zero paid acquisition.
That's not a marketing win — it's proof that the exhaustion is real, and widely shared, before we spent a single riyal on ads.
We're now onboarding early communities ahead of our closed beta.
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Three layers, building in sequence:
Switching cost, from day one.
Once the engine is running inside MDAAR — the archive, the founding identity, the accumulated activity — leaving means going back to running everything by hand, in front of hundreds of members.
Peer network effect, from month three.
Saudi community builders are a dense, connected circle. Our first fifty communities arrive by referral, not ad spend — each one becomes proof for the next.
Category authority, from month twelve.
Past 100 live communities, we hold the first behavioral dataset on how Arabic communities actually grow, engage, and fade — the foundation for the automation layer that comes next.
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$200K
for 10% equity
to take MDAAR from 7 organic signups to 100+ active communities within 18 months.
KAUST's accelerator program
We've been accepted into TAQADAM, KAUST's accelerator program — our first outside validation that this problem is worth solving.
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Founded by operators, not tourists.
Industrial engineering and venture-building experience, paired with a technical co-founder leading the build from day one.
Co-Founder & CEO
Operator with entrepreneurial experience in building and scaling ventures.
Co-Founder & CTO
Technical leader with deep experience in building scalable digital products.