Wadini: Why We're Building an Entertainment Guide for Egypt's North Coast

Anyone who has spent a summer on the North Coast knows the routine. Someone asks "where do we go tonight?", the group chat produces five answers, the plan changes three times, and nobody knows what the night will actually cost until the bill shows up. Wadini (وديني, roughly "take me there") is the app we're building to fix that. It's our own product, not a client project, and it's coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.

The Wadini website, ahead of launch.

What Wadini does

Wadini is an Arabic-first entertainment guide for Sahel and Alexandria. Beach clubs, restaurants, getaways and events, organized by area, so you can see what's near you instead of scrolling through a dozen Instagram pages.

When the group can't decide, there's a dice that plans the whole day for you. There are group chats inside the app, so the plan and the people are in the same place instead of split across WhatsApp and a list of links.

The group discount

This is the part we're most interested in. With Wadini's group discount, the price per head drops as more friends join, and the final price settles at check-in. It turns "who else is coming?" from a question into a reason to bring more people, and it means everyone knows the real cost before they leave the house.

Arabic first, not Arabic later

Plenty of apps in Egypt are built in English and translated afterwards, and it shows: cramped right-to-left layouts, awkward wording, menus that clearly weren't designed for Arabic. Wadini is designed in Arabic from the start, with English alongside it, because the people planning a night out in Sahel mostly talk about it in Arabic.

What we're building it with

Expo and React Native with TypeScript, so one codebase runs on iOS, Android and the web. Supabase for the backend, Postgres with row-level security and server functions. three.js for the 3D touches, and Paymob for payments.

Where it stands

Wadini is built and in pre-launch. The listings you see right now are sample data while we get ready, so we're not going to tell you which venues are on it yet. When it's live in the stores, we'll say so here.

We build our own products for the same reason we built 3qar.co: so when someone asks what we can build, we can show them something real.