Comments on: Qaym Redesigns

By: MoHeM

MoHeM — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:41:32 +0000

I did visit the website and sound promising. I remember back when I was A student in KFUPM (King Fahd University), I had a vision of such a website and discussed it with several people but I found it really hard to gather info from the public especially business owner in that time where internet was still a new thing to get around and mostly the elite know how to use it properly no only for chat. I doped the idea for later and I’m glad to see some one had some similar vision.

In regard with the idea about the restaurant review and collection of data i invite you to at least visit one of the most successful website about a similar yet more mature and organized one called GrubHub.com. In GrubHub not only you can find a nearby restaurant and review them, but it goes further by providing a scan of their menu (with a dynamic one) along with the ability to order online from the restaurant. Personally, I’m one of many thousands that uses this website around the city (currently live in Chicago area) and it uses a very flexible model for generating income by asking the restaurant to pay them back (few bucks) if they like the customer and no surprise that many did. It started off as small project to gather restaurant info around universities campuses here in Chicago and expanded to other major cities.

I guess that Qayem could use helps from major review website like Yelp and other which has some good idea and how to organize it. Further they can contact some business owners to help the website by advertising it in their locations and encouraging people to review the restaurant in their own way (non invasive of course)

By: Jerry M

Jerry M — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:47:45 +0000

Hello Jihad,

I looked at the site today and it is working. I hope I didn’t sound too critical. Javascript can be funky with all the different browsers out there and I am hardly an expert. I often see small javascript errors in my own stuff, but if they don’t crash the page, I will ignore it.

By: lirun

lirun — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:03:22 +0000

for a long time i have wanted to do something similar at home.. my parents used to own a very sizable food factory – restaurants and a catering company and i feel qualified.. the one thing that stops me is that i dont want to offend anyone..

im weak hehe

By: Jihad

Jihad — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:55:37 +0000

Yeah man, it’s really tough getting coverage around here. There isn’t a support system in place to help an emerging technology.

Jerry: Yeah, we’re still ironing out bugs on different browsers and operating systems. You shouldn’t have this particular problem any more though.

Thanks Ahmad, I really appreciate your support.

By: HishMaj

HishMaj — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:52:32 +0000

The iPhone app sounds really exciting. I like Jeddah food as well. Look more professional and msot important thing to me, its in English :)

By: A Global Citizen

A Global Citizen — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:52:06 +0000

Personally, I’ve never heard of Qaym before reading your post. When looking for reviews on restaurants, I simply go to Jeddah Food (since I live in Jeddah). But I guess what’s unique about Qaym is that it offers reviews of restaurants both inside and outside Saudi Arabia.

Best of luck to Jihad and his team.

By: Jerry M

Jerry M — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:17:07 +0000

The site still needs testing. I clicked on the link you include in your post and I get a javascript error (it is in the google maps code). I don’t read Arabic but I do web development for a living.