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by captk 4278 days ago
Hey all - I'm the founder and have been working on this for months, solo (all bootstrapped). Would love to chat with anyone from the community and hear what you think!
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Congratulations on launching! This looks swell. Love the explainer video. I find the background cover photo distracting and doesn't seem to communicate benefits. Consider a solid color or a different photo.

Show benefits before features. Less text. Bigger font. More contrast.

Or increase the opacity of the background gradient to make the text more distinct...
Really interesting idea. By day I'm an engineer at a YC company - but I've got a few eCommerce projects under my belt and wholesale has always interested me as well. If you have a second drop me an email (in my profile) I'd be interested to meet you.
Congrats as well -- looks fantastic. A non-technical question: How did the idea for this come about? Are/were you in the wholesale business? Did you work for folks who were? Just curious how ideas become seeds become launches...

Good luck and have a blast with it.

The idea came about since I also own several manufacturing businesses. We couldn't find ANYTHING that addressed this market - all the solutions were either old school (desktop software), or very focused on the fashion market (nuOrder, Joor).

So being that I have a startup/tech background, we started to build our own solution. I made the decision early on to put in the extra effort to built it multi-tenant as a SaaS app so others could use it too.

So yes, it's built directly to scratch our own itch - and it's an itch I know others have as well from chatting with other business owners over the last few years. There was nothing out there for it, so we built it :)

Been working on a similar concept for the past 18 months! Shoot me an email if you want to chat (see profile)
Your email isn't in your profile as far as I can see :)
Not him, but I don't think it's in your profile (yet)