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Case study · 2026

Scientific: Bilingual Pharma Platform

A Saudi pharmaceuticals and medical-devices firm needed a credible bilingual web presence: Arabic-first, compliant, and fast. I built and shipped it solo, spec to production, in three days.

3 days
spec → production
71
commits
~48
Vitest + Playwright tests
$21/mo
infra footprint

The brief.

Scientific is a Saudi pharmaceuticals and medical-devices firm operating in a regulated market. They needed a production website that read natively in Arabic (right-to-left first) and English, met KSA regulatory expectations, and could be maintained by non-technical staff.

I owned the whole thing (spec, architecture, build, security, SEO, compliance, and deploy) with no technical management, working solo across US and Saudi time zones.

The architecture.

I built a fully static site on Next.js 15, React 19, and TypeScript, with on-demand ISR revalidation so content changes go live with zero-downtime deploys. The whole thing runs on a lean $21/month footprint.

Content lives in an embedded Sanity CMS, so non-technical staff publish updates with no redeploy and no developer in the loop.

Security and compliance.

The public path can never mutate data. I split read and write API tokens and put a durable CMS-write-before-email guarantee in front of the contact flow.

  • Serverless contact pipeline hardened with Upstash Redis rate limiting and Cloudflare Turnstile.
  • Roughly 48 Vitest and Playwright tests covering the critical paths.
  • SFDA and PDPL compliance built into the product: product-specific disclaimers, registration-number governance, and a bilingual privacy policy.
  • A four-workflow CI/CD pipeline with release-gated production deploys.

Search and go-to-market.

I built a multilingual SEO system (hreflang and canonical alternates, Organization/Product/FAQ JSON-LD, and IndexNow plus Bing submission) and tuned KSA mobile Core Web Vitals, taking a previously unindexed domain to full search visibility.

I also delivered the parts that aren't code: a bilingual brand and letterhead system, a low-budget KSA marketing playbook, and custom-domain email with Resend (SPF/DKIM).

The outcome.

Live in 3 days, feature-complete in 10, across 71 commits. A real production platform, shipped solo in a regulated industry, in two languages.

Stack.

Next.js 15React 19TypeScriptSanity CMSUpstash RedisCloudflare TurnstileVitestPlaywrightVercel

FAQ.

What is scientific.sa and who built it?
scientific.sa is a production bilingual (Arabic-first, right-to-left, and English) website for a Saudi pharmaceuticals and medical-devices firm. Omar Abdalla built and shipped it solo, owning spec, architecture, build, security, SEO, KSA compliance, and deploy with no technical management.
How fast was the Scientific platform shipped?
It went from spec to production in 3 days and was feature-complete in 10, across 71 commits. The work was done solo across US and Saudi time zones, with roughly 48 Vitest and Playwright tests covering the critical paths.
What stack and infrastructure does Scientific run on, and what does it cost?
Scientific is a static Next.js 15 / React 19 / TypeScript site with on-demand ISR, running on a lean $21/month footprint. Content lives in an embedded Sanity CMS, and the contact pipeline is hardened with Upstash Redis rate limiting and Cloudflare Turnstile; SFDA and PDPL compliance is built into the product.

Let's talk.

Happy to walk through the architecture and the decisions behind it.