Hi Product Hunt! I’m Qi, the maker of NavGCC.

Working across China and the Middle East, I’ve often faced three questions: What does the Gulf’s business landscape look like? Where do I fit in? And how can I build the right relationships?

I built NavGCC around three ideas:

• Understand the landscape — explore people, companies, institutions, and their connections across the GCC.
• Find your place — bring your own contacts into the map.
• Discover your path — explore possible routes to the people and organizations you want to reach.

My first priority is to make this genuinely useful: something people enjoy using, return to, and want to share with others. I want to help more people turn their networks into meaningful business connections.

I’m also looking for a partner to help drive user growth and shape the commercial model. A few directions I’m exploring—not features available today—include:

• Community memberships: tools for alumni and professional community organizers to build and manage networks, with paid access for eligible members.
• Professional intermediaries: a space where business connectors and advisory firms can offer introduction and matching services.
• Introduction requests and bounties: users could post whom they want to reach and offer a reward for a successful, mutually agreed introduction.

These are starting points, and I’m open to better ideas. I’d especially love to meet someone with experience growing a product, building communities, or developing marketplaces who wants to help take NavGCC forward.

What would make you use NavGCC—and invite someone else to join? If you see an opportunity to build this together, let’s talk.

Explore navgcc.com, leave a comment, or reach me at qizhan@umich.edu.

Thanks for helping shape what comes next!