From 0 to 3500 products in 27 countries. The momentum is getting real.

Hey IH,

I have a huge update on my ExperiaHub journey, and I'm still trying to process it.

For those new to the story, I'm a 49-year-old non-coder who built my AI travel SaaS platform in 5 weeks. The last time I posted, we had just onboarded our very first suppliers. The big question was: can this scale? Can we actually build a real marketplace?

This week, I think I got the answer.

After a focused outreach sprint, we have now onboarded 45 new suppliers, adding 3500 new products and experiences to our platform from 27 countries, including Morocco, Croatia, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Mexico, and the US!

The most encouraging part is the data behind it. I sent around 200 highly personalized DMs to potential suppliers, and we're seeing a 20% sign-up rate. This is the first real validation of our supplier-side value proposition. It proves that there's a real hunger from high-quality operators to find new, tech-enabled sales channels.

This is a massive step. We're moving from a "cool tech project" to a real, functioning, global marketplace with a growing inventory. It's the moment it starts to feel like a real business.

My current outreach is still very manual and personal, which I think is why it's working. But it's not scalable long-term. My next big challenge is figuring out how to maintain that quality and personalization as we grow.

For other marketplace founders here: How did you handle the transition from manual, founder-led supplier/creator onboarding to a more scalable process?

Thanks for following the journey. This week was a huge win.

You can read the full back-story of how I built the platform in my Medium series here: https://medium.com/@yasu.saito/the-art-of-the-prompt-how-to-talk-to-your-ai-engineer-38e272ae5ac2