Amaro Than
Stories · Think Different
Amaro Than Stories Think Different. Tell Yours.
Amaro Than. Build like us.

Amaro Than Thinks Different.

From security breakthroughs to small product details that change everything — this is where we share how Amaro Than is built differently.

Designed with care. Written with honesty.
Security, product, and people — all in one place.
Security
Live safeguards
Safer by design.
We don’t bolt on safety. We architect it — from encrypted media to abuse-resistant infrastructure.
Product
Built for real life
Small details. Big feeling.
Every animation, every layout, tuned for clarity — so the story you share is always the hero.
Community
Made with you
Stories that belong.
Behind every update, there are people. Roma youth, creators, families — shaping what Amaro Than becomes.
‹ Back to all stories
From Vision to Reality: The Story of Amaro Than

From Vision to Reality: The Story of Amaro Than

Amaro Than Team · Nov 20, 2025
Not a product deck. Not a trend. Not a borrowed vision dressed up in startup language. A real dream: to create a safe digital place where Roma could celebrate their culture and identity, organize and mobilize, build confidence, create meaningful connections with their neighbors, feel truly understood, and shine as a community radiating the beauty of diversity.

That was the beginning.

The name itself says everything: Amaro Than — Our Place.

And that was always the point. Not just to launch another app. Not just to occupy space online. But to build something Roma people could enter and immediately feel: this belongs to us. This was made with us in mind. This is a place where our voices are not filtered, reduced, or pushed to the margins. This is the center.

For too long, Roma have been left out of the digital revolutions shaping the modern world.

Platforms were built without them in mind. Communities were spoken about more often than they were spoken with. Digital spaces promised connection, but too rarely delivered dignity, understanding, or cultural belonging. The result was familiar: participation without representation, visibility without safety, presence without power.

Amaro Than set out to change that story.

Not symbolically. Practically.

Not with slogans, but with products.

Not with permission, but with creation.

What started as a dream became a mission: to build a safe, modern, and empowering digital ecosystem where Roma people are not an afterthought, but the foundation. A place where identity is not something to explain away, but something to carry proudly. A place where technology does not flatten culture, but helps it move, breathe, connect, and grow.

Today, that dream has become reality.

Through Netvorko, our Roma social network, voices and stories connect across borders. What once felt scattered now feels closer. Conversations travel. Experiences echo. People who may never have met in person can still recognize something essential in one another: a shared culture, a shared memory, a shared future.

Through Amalipe+, our dating and friendship platform, Roma build love and meaningful bonds. Not in a space that asks them to translate who they are, soften who they are, or hide where they come from. But in a space that understands that connection becomes stronger when it begins from recognition, trust, and cultural familiarity.

And through Ainara, the world’s first Roma AI, daily support and innovation move directly into the hands of our people. Not as a distant experiment. Not as a luxury. But as a practical, living tool shaped by the belief that Roma communities deserve to stand at the front edge of innovation, too.

This is what makes Amaro Than more than a platform.

It is an ecosystem.

A digital home built with purpose.

A structure where community, technology, identity, and opportunity meet each other in the same place.

Every part of it carries the same conviction: Roma deserve excellence online. Roma deserve tools that are safe, modern, and empowering. Roma deserve digital environments that reflect their values, their beauty, their intelligence, and their potential. And Roma deserve the chance not only to join the digital revolution, but to help lead it.

That is what makes this moment different.

Amaro Than is not about catching up to a world that moved on without us. It is about building a world where Roma move forward on their own terms. It is about transforming exclusion into creation. Silence into voice. Fragmentation into connection. Doubt into confidence. It is about proving, through action, that a community long pushed to the edges can build something bold, refined, and transformative at the center.

There is power in being seen.

There is power in being understood.

But there is a different kind of power in building the place where that understanding happens.

That is the work of Amaro Than.

With every step forward, we are creating the first-ever digital ecosystem that celebrates Roma voices, cultures, and values. With every connection made through Netvorko, every bond formed through Amalipe+, and every moment of support offered by Ainara, the vision becomes more real, more useful, and more alive.

What began in 2022 as a dream is now something people can enter, use, and feel.

A place for pride.

A place for unity.

A place for progress.

A place that does not ask Roma to fit into someone else’s digital future, but helps build a new one.

Our place.

Amaro Than.
Latest stories
17 stories

Amaro Than Adaptive Bar

Designed by Ardit Berisha, the Amaro Than Adaptive Bar was created to solve fragmentation. Instead of static navigation, it adapts to user intent, context, and behavior in real time. The bar reshapes itself across feed, messaging, profiles, and community tools, creating one continuous identity-driven experience. Integrated across the entire Amaro Than ecosystem, it reduces friction, increases clarity, and redefines how a community-first app should feel.

Amaro Than’s Adaptive Bar Redefining In-App Interaction

It starts with a thumb. In every app, your thumb stretches, swipes, and taps—yet menus and pop-ups always pull you away. At Amaro Than, we asked: why should interaction feel heavy? So we created the Adaptive Bar. A single, living interface at the bottom of the screen. At rest, it’s a sleek, unobtrusive pill. Tap it, and it morphs fluidly into a dashboard, guiding you through messages, voice recordings, reactions, or settings—all inside the same space. No pop-ups. No interruptions. Every motion is Hyper-Fluid, every animation Luxury-Fluid, designed to feel effortless under your thumb. The bar stretches, flows, and adapts—anticipating intent, keeping you in rhythm. It’s more than UI. It’s interaction reimagined. And it lives where you do—at the bottom of your screen, right under your thumb. This is the Adaptive Bar. Only from Amaro Than.

Amaro Cloud

Amaro Cloud

Today we introduced Amaro Cloud inside Netvorko. It’s our own storage layer—built for speed, security and full privacy. Every photo, video and file now travels through our encrypted Amaro Than cloud, making sharing faster, smoother and more reliable. This is a big step toward a unified ecosystem where everything simply works.

Rand Engel as Senior Advisor

Rand Engel as Senior Advisor

Rand brings decades of international experience in leadership, humanitarian work, and cross-cultural engagement. He first came to Kosovo in 1999, where he founded Balkan Sunflowers Kosova, an NGO supporting Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities in education, inclusion, and community development. As an advisor to Amaro Than, Rand provides strategic guidance rooted in sustainability, transparency, and global best practices, while helping the project stay true to its Roma-led vision and values.

Faton Mustafa as Content Production Manager to Amaro Than

Faton Mustafa as Content Production Manager to Amaro Than

Faton Mustafa is a Kosovo Roma filmmaker, journalist, and activist dedicated to empowering Roma youth. Through documentaries and community initiatives across Kosovo, Serbia, Croatia, and Montenegro, he highlights Roma challenges, advocates for their rights, and creates platforms for young people to share their stories. His commitment drives meaningful social change. At Amaro Than, he brings 20 years of experience in media, visual storytelling, and digital communication. As Content Production Manager, he will apply a sharp creative eye and a storyteller’s instinct to shape content that captures real voices and real emotion. He will help build our platform’s identity—authentic, bold, and community-driven—while ensuring every story we share reflects dignity, pride, and truth. His extensive experience across media landscapes will strengthen our message, grow our visibility, and amplify the Roma narrative on a global digital stage.

Almedina Skenderi as Communications & Engagement Lead at Amaro Than

Almedina Skenderi as Communications & Engagement Lead at Amaro Than

Almedina focuses on connecting stories that inspire change and strengthen community. A student at RIT Kosovo and alumna of the YES Program, she has raised awareness about Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities through storytelling, advocacy, and youth leadership. As Communications & Engagement Lead at Amaro Than, she crafts strategy, leads campaigns, and builds bridges so every voice feels seen, heard, and valued.

Ardit Berisha as CTO

Ardit Berisha as CTO

Ardit Berisha is the CTO of Amaro Than and the architect behind its entire stack. A full-stack engineer, cybersecurity specialist, network engineer, and cloud architect, he designs distributed systems that scale from the first thousand to millions of users. With auto-scaling, CDNs, tuned databases, and deep monitoring, he builds infrastructure that stays fast, resilient, and secure—even under real-world attacks.

Elvis Avdiu as COO

Elvis Avdiu as COO

Elvis Avdiu leads marketing at Amaro Than with more than a decade of experience in community growth and engagement. He designs bold campaigns, stories, and video moments that make people feel seen, not targeted. From outreach strategy to daily communication, he keeps our message simple, human, and consistent, perfectly syncing content, product, and community so every touchpoint feels like one clear voice.

Engineered to Scale for Millions

Engineered to Scale for Millions

The system designed by our CTO is built to scale from day one. Our architecture is cloud-ready, horizontally scalable, and optimized for high concurrency, so it can handle millions of users under good infrastructure conditions. With smart caching, tuned databases, and efficient APIs, Amaro Than stays fast, stable, and responsive even as the community grows.

Driton Berisha as CEO

Driton Berisha as CEO

Driton Berisha, CEO of Amaro Than, brings over 20 years of work with Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in education, youth organising and culture. He led national efforts to defend Roma rights in the census, expanded access to preschool, and used music to share pride and hope. At Amaro Than, he builds a warm, open space where mixed youth groups create, learn and lead together, partnering with schools and institutions to break stereotypes and connect communities.

Ardit Berisha: Building Amaro Than Like a Fortress, One Line of Code at a Time

Ardit Berisha: Building Amaro Than Like a Fortress, One Line of Code at a Time

Ardit Berisha designed Amaro Than like a fortress first, platform second. As a cyber securist with a hacker’s mindset, he begins every diagram by asking: “where would I attack this?”. From backbone to APIs, traffic flows through layered firewalls, live alerts and learning algorithms watching network behaviour, honeypots, Nginx, Apache and sharded DBs, all wrapped in AES-256-CBC with weekly key rotation to resist DDoS, CSRF and SQLi.

The First Beta That Broke Us (So We Could Scale)

The First Beta That Broke Us (So We Could Scale)

The first beta felt like launch day. Ardit, Elvis, and Driton put Amaro Than on a simple XAMPP box, 20 people, 20 Mbps upload, closed circle. With just five users online the server choked—timelines froze, uploads died. Metrics pointed at one villain: raw videos. That night Ardit designed the optimizing algorithm and NARA-1r. Compressed streaming, smarter caching, WebSockets, and suddenly the same idea could breathe at scale instead of crashing the room.

Amaro Than on 18th November

Amaro Than on 18th November

The Night When Cloudflare Went Quiet” is about the evening a Cloudflare outage froze Amaro Than uploads stalled, feeds stopped, everything felt fragile. Instead of blaming the provider, you redesigned the stack: extra DNS, backup routes, smarter fallbacks, better health checks. That night turned into a promise: even when the internet breaks, Amaro Than fights to stay online for its people.

From Vision to Reality: The Story of Amaro Than

From Vision to Reality: The Story of Amaro Than

Amaro Than began as a conversation between three people: Driton, Elvis, and Ardit. No stage lights. No keynote. Just a simple idea that refused to go away. Driton was the first to say it out loud: “Why don’t we build a place that actually feels like us?” Not a generic social app. Not another platform where Roma people are a statistic, a “target audience,” or a checkbox in a report. A place where they were the center, not the footnote. That was the seed.