How is Darb Tech different from a typical dev agency?
Two things: (1) we're a media and design company that also builds tech, so the platforms we ship look like they were designed, not stapled together; (2) we ship our own products (Rouad, Darbprint) — every technical decision we recommend has been tested against our own production reality first. Most agencies pitch a portfolio. We show you products you can log into today.
Do you build with our team, or take everything in-house?
Both models. If you have an internal engineering team, we can work as a project team alongside them — spec, design, sprint, handover — and train your team as we go. If you don't have one, we take the whole build in-house from brief to launch. The workshop stage picks the model.
What tech stack do you build in?
Default stack: Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind on the frontend, Node.js + Supabase / Postgres on the backend, React Native for mobile. This is what Rouad and Darbprint run on, so we know it holds up in production. We can adapt (Laravel, Django, .NET) when your team's stack demands it — but we don't recommend a stack we haven't shipped ourselves.
Do you handle hosting, or do we?
Both. If you have preferences (AWS Saudi Arabia, Oracle Cloud, on-premise), we deploy there. If you don't, we host on our own managed VPS infrastructure in Frankfurt or Saudi — same setup Rouad runs on — with monitoring, backups, and uptime SLAs. Either way, you own the DNS and the codebase; hosting is separable.
Bilingual (AR/EN) — is that fully supported?
Yes, and it's designed AR-first. Not "we translated the buttons" — proper RTL layout, Arabic-native typography, mixed-direction text handling, culturally correct copy (not machine-translated), Hijri calendar support where the domain needs it. Every product we ship is bilingual by default, not as an add-on.
How much does a typical project cost?
Depends heavily on scope. A conversion-focused landing page is a few thousand SAR; a corporate marketing website with CMS is 30–80k SAR; a working MVP of a SaaS platform typically runs 150–400k SAR; a full production platform with mobile app can be 500k+. Fixed quote at the end of the discovery workshop — no open-ended time-and-materials surprises.
Can you build only a landing page, or do you require a full platform?
Anything from a one-page landing site to a full multi-year platform build. Small pieces are welcome — we routinely ship campaign microsites in under a week. The pricing scales with scope; there's no minimum ceremony.
What happens after the first year — are we locked in?
No. You own the source code, the domain, the hosting account, the accounts on every third-party tool. Year-two options: extend the support contract, hand it to your internal team (we brief them), or move it to another shop. Our code is documented, standard-stack, and portable — nothing hidden or exotic that binds you to us.