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What we have learned building AI agents, smart-city platforms, data systems, desktop apps and privacy tools, written for the people who run businesses, not just developers.

Oxid Live home page: every message, comment and call answered, in Bangla

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20 Oct 2026 3 min read

AI Customer Service in Bangla: Answering Every Message, Comment and Call

Most Bangladeshi businesses sell through Facebook, WhatsApp and the phone, not a website. Here is what it takes for an AI agent to answer customers there, in the language they actually write in.

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Pditor: every PDF tool, with the AI doing the work

14 Oct 2026 3 min read

Beyond the Chatbot: Where AI Actually Saves Time in Document Work

Most "AI features" in office software are a chat box bolted onto the side. Building Pditor taught us where AI genuinely removes work from PDFs, and where it only adds noise.

DSCC Intelligent Waste Management System: waste collection across all 75 wards

8 Oct 2026 3 min read

Running Waste Collection Across 75 Wards: Building the DSCC Waste Management System

How Dhaka South City Corporation records every household collection, bills every holding monthly and watches all 75 wards on one live map, and what we learned building it.

Hawker Sheba: a digital identity for every hawker

1 Oct 2026 3 min read

A Map-Based Digital ID for Street Hawkers: Designing Hawker Sheba

Registration in four minutes with a phone and an NID, a trading spot picked on a map of approved zones, and a QR-coded ID card anyone can verify. How we designed Hawker Sheba for DSCC.

Live Diagrams editor with shape libraries for ER, UML and network diagrams

24 Sept 2026 3 min read

Get Your Data Ready Before You Buy AI: A Practical Data Engineering Guide

Most AI projects that disappoint were data projects in disguise. A plain-language guide to getting scattered spreadsheets, databases and apps into shape, so AI and dashboards actually work.

LawTime: talk to a trusted lawyer, on your schedule

17 Sept 2026 3 min read

Building Trust Into a Legal-Tech Platform: Lessons From LawTime

People only book a lawyer online if they trust the platform. How verification, transparent booking, secure consultations and a real emergency path shaped LawTime.

Oxid Apps: beautiful native Mac apps, built right

10 Sept 2026 3 min read

Native, Tauri or Electron? Choosing How to Build a Desktop App in 2026

Desktop software is back: for privacy, offline work and speed. A practical comparison of native, Tauri and Electron from a team that ships its own Mac apps.

Syslok: remote access that can't be weaponized

3 Sept 2026 3 min read

Privacy by Design: What Building Syslok and OxidVPN Taught Us

Policies can be broken; architecture is harder to argue with. Lessons from building a remote-access tool that leaves nothing behind and a VPN on an open-source protocol.

Rajbari Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry website in Bangla and English

27 Aug 2026 3 min read

Bangla and English, Done Properly: Building Bilingual Websites

A language switch in the menu is not a bilingual website. Practical lessons on Bangla typography, numerals, forms, search and SEO from the chamber, education, news and shop sites we have built.