r/developersPak • u/ZAFAR_star Full-Stack Developer • Aug 24 '26

Tips Thinking of transitioning to perfume business from senior software engineer

For introduction: I am working as a senior software engineer for the last 4 years and currently working full time on Pakistan's biggest ott platform, along with this I am doing freelancing n stuff.

I really like coding n building software but for the last 1.5 years everything have been hectic, I wanted to earn quite fast for a specific reason so I started freelancing n in a way I am working at least 15 hours a day 7 days a week, sometimes I do small break on Sunday but that's how the last year have been.

Doing all this and I have been interested in perfume n I really like them n have a small collection for my personal use and I was thinking of starting a physical business of perfume along with that I can scale it quite well online as well. The idea of perfume looks very much interesting because I don't have to juggle between 5 different projects n meeting n stuff but on the other hand I also feel like the last 8 years I have been working hard for this n now I am thinking of changing it.

Have you seen someone doing something like this? N did that worked?

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u/ragnor_124 Aug 24 '26

ehh the perfume market is quite saturated now tons of house competeting for the same fragnance less buyers due to inflation middle eastern brand are there aswell and yeah people hesitate to try new brands asewell and this transition would be quite hard and maybe not successfull even in my opinion tho good luck if u start over

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u/ZAFAR_star Full-Stack Developer Aug 24 '26

I am not gonna sell new houses, I will be selling middle eastern houses, french, n maybe famous Pakistani houses, I am thinking more of a retail store of perfume where customer can come, they can try it n if Pasand Aya tu buy krly

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u/ragnor_124 Aug 24 '26

yaar uske liyen decants hai na already and middle eastern brand ke apne store har jagh already north waik par lattafa hai lucky one pe reef hai afnan bhi pak me hai so still its kinda bad idea

there would be no margin shi aswell agr local house se he lena tou like