Comebck Pakistan — Cohort 1 · Product Challenge
- Marriyam Andeel
- Mustafa Zafar Khan
- Ahmed humayun
- Vara Ali
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Our squad picked Idea 1 — The Small-Business Brain (WhatsApp-first) from the Cohort 1 Product Challenge. Below are our ideation-stage validation answers, reproduced exactly as we submitted them.
The owner/manager of a grooming and beauty salon in I-8 Markaz, Islamabad FABS Salon, getting at least 100 DMs on every social media platform everyday, with two staff members hired solely for this purpose and are currently overwhelmed with WhatsApp and Instagram messages. They lose leads everyday due to huge number of unanswered DMs
The person from FABS Salon in I-8 Markaz, Islamabad, told us he loses bookings every day because he can't reply to customer WhatsApp and Instagram messages within the 20–30 minute window that matters. His exact words: "Zaroori hai ke aap usay 20–30 minutes ke andar reply kar dein, verna customer lose hojata hay" Today their staff juggles in-person customers with messages, so DMs sit unanswered. Customers ask in Urdu and English, often sending photos of their hair or skin, and expect instant replies. He tried AI before but it failed on image analysis.
A WhatsApp-first AI receptionist for solo salon owners like FABS Salon in I-8 Markaz that auto-replies to customer FAQs (timing, price, booking) within seconds in Urdu and English, analyzes customer photos of hair and skin, captures bookings, and escalates medical or skin-condition questions to a human stylist.
2-3 salon owners actively using the product daily for 30 consecutive days, including the FABS Salon owner we interviewed with at least 1 saying "I haven't missed a customer inquiry since I installed it"
We picked this over the other ideas because we have direct, validated evidence — not assumptions. Yesterday we interviewed the owner of FABS Salon in I-8 Markaz, Islamabad, who confirmed four things in one 10-minute conversation: (1) the pain is daily and measurable (bookings lost to slow replies, with 20–30 min being the threshold his customers expect), (2) he would refer other salon owners if it worked, and (3) he tried AI before and it failed specifically on image analysis a clear feature gap we can fill since his customers send hair and skin photos daily. We can reach 10+ salon owners in Islamabad and Lahore via Instagram DMs in a single day, and Pakistan has 200,000+ salons, mostly small and independent.
Follow these steps to get this repo on your machine and start contributing code.
- Install Git
- A GitHub account added to the Comebck-Pakistan organization
- (Recommended) VS Code and/or the GitHub CLI
git clone https://github.com/Comebck-Pakistan/cohort-1-squad-siachen.git
cd cohort-1-squad-siachenNever commit straight to main. Create a branch for each feature or fix:
git checkout -b your-name/short-descriptiongit add .
git commit -m "Briefly describe what you changed"git push -u origin your-name/short-description- Open the repo on GitHub and click "Compare & pull request".
- Describe your change, request a review from a squadmate, and merge once approved.
Before starting new work, pull the latest main:
git checkout main
git pull origin mainEvery squad member must contribute commits. The challenge grades a real, honest commit history that shows everyone built. Build in the open, ship the proof. 🚀