Why We Built Hisaab

Right after finishing my degree, I was a young graduate pounding the pavement, searching for a job. I knew programming — not perfectly, not yet — but it was the only thing I had.

One ordinary day, I walked into a car parts shop to get something repaired. What I found inside was a scene I'll never forget: a massive setup, shelves packed floor to ceiling with inventory, three sales counters running, and every single bill still being written by hand.

I asked the obvious question: "Why don't you get software for this?"

"We're planning to," they told me.

"I can build it," I said.

The owner wasn't there that day. So I came back the next one.

What followed was a long, difficult conversation. I was young. I had no track record. And they had no reason to trust me.

They told me they already had software once — on an old computer, gathering dust. It didn't work. It had been shut down.

"The software I build for you won't shut down like that," I told them.

Still, they hesitated. No experience, no reputation, no proof. I kept trying to convince them, and it kept going nowhere.

He gave me the job. No upfront money. Just a chance.

I needed the money badly. But I couldn't let that opportunity walk away either. So I took the chance.

I didn't start writing code right away. First, I sat and understood what was actually breaking in that shop, every single day:

• 15 customers waiting, only 2–3 salesmen to serve them all.
• A massive inventory where remembering the price of every part was nearly impossible.
• No one could remember where anything was placed. If a customer wanted an old or rare part and the salesman couldn't find it fast enough, the customer walked out — and the sale walked out with them.
• No visibility into stock levels. No one knew when something was running low, or when to reorder.
• The owner couldn't leave. If he stepped away, the shop had no one else who really knew what was going on. Everything ran on trust in employees, and if something went wrong in his absence, it was simply gone — no way to know, no way to trace it.

These weren't small annoyances. These were the things quietly costing them money and customers every single day.

So I built them something real: software that tracked inventory by rack and location, held every price, and put the entire shop at their fingertips.

The change was immediate and visible.

A customer would call about a part. One click, and the price was right there. The customer was happy. Fifteen people in the shop, three sales counters, and suddenly they were moving faster than ever before. They knew exactly what they owed their suppliers, their ledgers stayed maintained, everything had a record.

Within a week, they paid me my first 25% — a number they set themselves, because they could already see what it was worth.

What started as a job turned into something else. I became part of that shop, part of that family, genuinely enjoying every problem I got to solve for them.

That project's success opened doors — other shop owners started reaching out, one after another. But right around that time, I also landed a job through Upwork with a UK company, one that paid well and pulled me in a different direction.

If that hadn't happened, I probably would have kept building and selling this same software to shop after shop, for years.

But the story doesn't end there. Years later, I went back to that same idea — and rebuilt it from scratch. New technology, new features, everything the modern shop owner actually needs today. That software is Hisaab.

If your shop isn't managed the way it should be — if you're still doing what that shop was doing all those years ago — reach out. Let me help you.

It's simple enough that if you know how to use a phone, you already know how to use Hisaab.

Take control of your shop from day one. Don't wait 35 years to realize things are in disarray — build good habits early, free up your time for family, and grow your business the right way.

Run your shop smarter. Sell more. Get your time back.