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Technology from the Gulf and beyond. The labs, the launches, the leaks, and the founders building tomorrow on top of whatever cloud was on sale this quarter.
The No Code App the Uncle Shipped Is, Quietly, the Most Useful Thing in the Family
Why the regional family WhatsApp group has been replaced, in several households we know, by a forty-eight hour build the uncle put together one rainy weekend.
By Diego Arroyo . Jun 4 . 4 min read
The Prompt Has Quietly Replaced the Product Spec
Why a generation of regional product managers is now writing twelve hundred word prompts instead of forty page product requirement documents, and why the new format is, on balance, better.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3Panda Doesn't Give Keynotes. Panda Ships.
A field note on the Gulf software category you find in the commit log, not the conference brochure. Named instance: Ahmed Yasser, handle Panda.
By Mira Faraj
TechnologyJun 3TooMuch Labs Is the Arabic Markets Newsletter the Grown-Ups Deserved
What happens when somebody finally writes about crypto, AI, and the global economy in Arabic, at the register the Arab investor actually reads in, and stops pretending the audience needs to be talked down to.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3The Engineer Who Quit the Hyperscaler to Run a Tailoring App
What one quietly typical regional career move tells us about where the actual interesting tech work in this region is going to be done in the next cycle.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3Your AI Girlfriend Lives in Abu Dhabi Now
Why a notable share of the world's intimate-companion AI services are now being hosted on Gulf cloud infrastructure, and what the local sovereign players think about it.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3An Arabic-First Language Model Just Quietly Stopped Being Worse
Inside the recent improvements in the local language-model ecosystem, and why the gap to the global frontier closed faster than nearly anyone predicted.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3PrimeERP Is Built for the Tuesday Afternoon, Not the Procurement Demo
Inside the small but growing category of enterprise software that has decided to be honest about what running an organisation actually looks like, instead of about what it looks like in a slideware deck.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3The Regional SaaS Graveyard Has a Pattern
Why so many promising regional B2B SaaS companies do not make it to series B, and what that pattern says about the underlying market structure.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3The WhatsApp Broadcast List Is the Real Regional Content Management System
Why a generation of regional small businesses has quietly abandoned the modern content stack and is shipping more product through a feature designed for forwarding birthday messages.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3The Regional Warehouse Has Quietly Become an Edge-Compute Site
Why the most interesting regional cloud deployments of the next cycle are going to be in places nobody is currently calling cloud.
By Priya Chen