Launched Fluxalyo: stock & supplier order software for small businesses. Still looking for my first users
I just launched Fluxalyo, a stock and supplier order management tool for small businesses: restaurants, nonprofits, multi-site shops.
The problem I kept running into (and hearing about from people around me): most small structures still track stock on a spreadsheet or a notebook. It works fine until it doesn't. Then there's a stockout discovered too late, a forgotten supplier order, a missed expiry date. And the "real" inventory software out there is usually built for much bigger companies. Too complex, too expensive, too much to set up for a team of 3 to 5 people.
So I built Fluxalyo to sit in between: real-time stock tracking (scan or click), supplier orders tracked from draft to receipt with automatic reminders, and alerts before a stockout or an expiry date. All without the enterprise price tag. Pricing is based only on the number of managers, not on warehouses or feature tiers.
I'm the sole founder, based in Bordeaux, France, and this is part of a small suite of tools I've been building (Adaptalyo Tech). Fluxalyo is live and working, but I have zero paying customers yet. Still very early.
If you've ever dealt with stock/inventory chaos in a small team, I'd love to hear how you handled it, or what would make a tool like this actually worth switching to. Happy to answer any questions about the product or the build.
The zero-paying-customer stage makes the switching question especially interesting.
People can tolerate surprisingly messy inventory workflows when they’re familiar. I’d be curious what actually gets someone to decide “this is worth changing” rather than just living with the spreadsheet.
Good question — and yeah, tolerance for messy workflows is real, I see it a lot with small restaurants and shops. From what I've seen, it's rarely a gradual realization — it's usually one specific moment: a stockout that hits at the worst time, a forgotten supplier order noticed too late, or the spreadsheet finally breaking down once more than 2-3 people start editing it at once. Curious if that matches what you've seen, or if there's a different trigger.