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Darbدرب

One platform. Many businesses. Many paths.

A multi-tenant business platform for the Israeli market, built for Arabic, Hebrew and English. A business registers, sets up its workspace and publishes a customer-facing product on a Darb subdomain or its own verified domain.

Nour’s role
Founder · Product engineering · Experience architecture
Status
darb.co.il is public. Restaurants are the first product engine; other engines are not built yet.
Visit darb.co.ilRepository
darb.co.il in English: the headline “Many worlds. One Platform.” beside the lit doorway artwork, with Arabic, Hebrew and English switches.
darb.co.il, English, desktop — captured 2026-09-27.

What is real today

Live

  • Public company site at darb.co.il in Arabic, Hebrew and English
  • Tenant admin and platform console
  • Restaurant engine with public menus, and Darb REST in production

Not claimed

  • Bookings, websites and commerce engines — listed as "coming soon"; no customer runtime exists
  • Billing — plans and entitlements carry no payment logic yet

The problem

Local businesses are usually handed one generic tool, whatever their trade. A café, a clinic and a shop end up bending their work to the same forms.

In Israel the same customer base reads Arabic, Hebrew and English. Most software treats right-to-left as an afterthought: mirrored layouts, one font for every script, strings hard-coded in English.

How it works

  1. 01

    One shared foundation — businesses, locations, locales, media, domains and audit — with each product engine behind its own schema and package boundary. Engine-to-engine imports are not allowed, so a new product can be added without reshaping the platform.

  2. 02

    Tenant isolation lives in Postgres: row-level security, explicit grants and narrow RPCs that commit each change together with its redacted audit event.

  3. 03

    Typography is chosen by script, not by page locale: Cairo for Arabic, Heebo for Hebrew, Ubuntu for Latin. The tenant always comes first; Darb appears as an understated "Powered by Darb".

Try it

Beyond the gateway the platform branches. Choose a route to see what is built and what is not.

One foundation: businesses, locations, languages, media, domains and audit — shared by every engine.

Restaurants · Darb REST · Available

The first engine in production: multilingual menus and storefronts for restaurants and cafés.

Selected capabilities

  • Tenant admin

    Self-service sign-up, resumable onboarding backed by an atomic database bootstrap, locations, languages, media library, custom domains and appearance under one workspace.

  • Restaurant engine

    Menus, categories, items, variants, modifier groups, per-location availability, hours, branding media, publication and launch-readiness checks.

  • Verified custom domains

    DNS TXT ownership proof plus hosting-provider attestation before a hostname goes live; verified hosts render through the same restaurant renderer.

  • Closed theme contract

    A fixed token set mapped to CSS variables with contrast checks, script-aware typography, direction and reduced-motion handling. Tenants cannot inject arbitrary CSS.

  • Platform console

    Cross-tenant views of businesses, users, domains, modules and the audit log, with audited lifecycle changes and reasoned entitlement overrides.

  • Capabilities vs. entitlements

    A module is usable only when it is available, entitled by plan or override, enabled by the tenant and the business is active. Provider-neutral, with no billing logic yet.

Architecture

Three Next.js applications on one Supabase project; engines sit behind their own schema and package.

  1. apps/main · darb.co.il

    Static /ar, /he, /en company site with per-locale metadata and hreflang. No database dependency.

  2. apps/admin · admin.darb.co.il

    Registration, onboarding, tenant workspaces, restaurant management and the /platform console.

  3. apps/rest · rest.darb.co.il

    Server-rendered public menus for platform slugs and verified custom hostnames.

  4. packages

    ui · icons · i18n · theme · database · restaurant · config · types

  5. Supabase

    core and restaurant schemas, private authorization helpers, storage, RLS and RPCs; tested with pgTAP.

  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • TypeScript (strict)
  • Supabase · Postgres · RLS
  • Turborepo · pnpm
  • Vitest · Playwright · pgTAP

The live product

Captures of the public production pages, and of the app running locally from its own repository with fictional demo data. No real customer or staff data appears.

The Darb tenant admin workspace overview for Demo Café: identity, counts of locations, languages, media and domains, and a readiness list.
Tenant admin: workspace overview. Local build of the Darb repository with fictional demo data (Demo Café).
The restaurant workspace in Arabic, right to left, with the sidebar on the right and menu, category and item counts.
The same admin in Arabic, fully right to left.
Plan and access capability cards: Restaurant enabled; Booking, Pages and Commerce not included.
Capabilities vs. entitlements: only Restaurant is enabled.
A claimed custom domain awaiting ownership verification, with the DNS TXT proof record to publish.
Custom domain: DNS TXT ownership proof before routing.
Onboarding step to create a business: name, slug on darb.co.il and default language.
Onboarding: create the first business.
Appearance: Signature, Editorial and Counter compositions, semantic colour settings and an Arabic live preview.
Closed theme contract: compositions and tokens, not CSS.
The restaurant items list with search, filters, shekel prices and variant and modifier chips.
Restaurant engine: items with variants and modifiers.
The public restaurant menu rendered by apps/rest in Arabic with category tabs and item cards.
Public menu renderer (apps/rest), Arabic.
The Darb products section: Restaurants marked available; Bookings, Websites and Commerce marked coming soon.
Darb products on darb.co.il: one engine available, three coming soon — captured 2026-09-27.
The Darb tenant admin sign-in page: “A clear path from your business to every customer.”
admin.darb.co.il sign-in — captured 2026-09-27.
The public menu in Arabic on a phone, right to left.
Public menu on a phone, Arabic.
An item detail sheet on a phone: shakshuka with a family-pan size and an optional feta extra.
Item detail with sizes and extras.
darb.co.il in Arabic on a phone, laid out right to left.
darb.co.il/ar on a phone, right to left — captured 2026-09-27.

From the repository

Darb brand artwork: a tall forest-green doorway lit gold from within, a figure walking through toward a sunlit terrace.
Darb brand artwork from the Darb repository (apps/main/public/brand/hero). Illustration, not a product screen.
The Darb symbol: a forest-green doorway form with an ivory band and a gold inner face.
The approved Darb symbol, a deterministic resize of apps/main/public/brand/logo/darb-symbol.png.