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Makanak مكانك

The operating system for a coworking business in Egypt: rooms and desks discovered on a map, booked in real time, paid for the way Egyptians actually pay, and run across branches from one dashboard.

The Makanak homepage
The hard part

Booking looks trivial until two people reserve the same meeting room in the same second. Availability has to be answered fast enough to feel instant, and answered exactly once — a double booking is not a glitch to a space operator, it is two angry customers standing in the same doorway.

What it does
  1. 01 Map-based discovery, then real-time availability with double-booking prevention
  2. 02 Egyptian payments as first-class: InstaPay, mobile wallets, cards and cash
  3. 03 Multi-branch operations with role-based permissions for the team on the floor
  4. 04 Check-in and check-out tracking, so billed time matches time actually used
  5. 05 Revenue, expenses and reports the operator can export to CSV, Excel or PDF
  6. 06 English and Arabic on their own routes, with full RTL, not a translated afterthought
How it is sold
14
days free, no card
1,500
EGP / month, Basic: 2 branches
3,500
EGP / month, Professional: 10 branches
9,000
EGP / month, Enterprise: unlimited

Plans as published on app.makanakeg.com.

Under the hood
  1. 01 Laravel on the server, rendering pages rather than a client app the operator waits on
  2. 02 Language is a route: /en and /ar each serve their own document, lang and direction
  3. 03 Cloudflare in front of the origin, encrypted session and CSRF cookies on every request
  4. 04 Installable on a phone, so the front desk uses it without an app store round trip
My part in it

Founder and architect. The booking model, the payment paths and the multi-branch structure are mine, and so is the decision of what stays out — a workspace product earns its keep by being boring and correct at the moment of booking.