I'm a developer from Iran. because of US sanctions there are multiple cloning startups for every major global app and websites like amazon, uber, airbnb, waze, google/apple app stores, itunes, netflix etc. some of them are very popular like digikala, snapp, bazaar, etc. community is very young, although there has been a lot of new conferences and events in last few years, there is no huge international event that I know of.

I'm developer and CTO in Iran companies these days software industry grow fast in Iran, maybe because of dollar rate or progress of removing sanctions

Many investor and global companies try to come to Iran and i think every day software industry going bigger

True, but careful.

US sanctions still apply, which essentially blocks a major business and money pipe. Includes EU firms, as they need to be able to trade with US.

Also means you can’t partner or sell to US software cos, so no exit strategy.

One of a few countries affected: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and the region of Crimea.

Rule of thumb: if Salesforce.com is not available, something is not right.

This, and the fact that many companies are watching US closely to avoid collateral damage. European banks are an example: they are theorically independent, yet they fear an American slash back on their US operations in case they would go to Iran on their own. Nobody wants to be the new Societe Generale.

thats correct but because of these sanction level, the market of Iran still named as blue ocean I think with little risk every body can get more benefit specially Investors

US companies cannot buy, sell, or work on open source with Iranians due to sanctions, which probably hurts a lot.

Worked for Oracle. They block all downloads, even of the free stuff, from computers in Iran.

I am an Iranian software developer which I live in Ankara/Turkey. The IT Industry in Iran and turkey is a little different. Because of sanctions using cloud infrastructure is not popular in Iran and most of the companies are using their own private infrastructure which causes high cost and less reliable services.

Meetups in Ankara is so popular too. In Ankara, we have at least a meeting every 2 days but in Iran, it may be a meeting per 2 weeks. The most of meeting in Ankara is technical and they talk about technologies and tools, in Iran, most of the meeting is about business and startups.

check out recommender.io and contact the founders. there is a very active software industry and i met a few of them in germany last year