Tradly Platform

I’m a big fan of ship fast to customers. It helped us to self sustain so far and identify hindsight earlier. Every day, we try to push whatever we have done to production. (Indeed it goes to from the flow of dev env > sandbox > production) but we make sure we don’t delay. We don’t procrastinate, or we don’t have insecure feeling. We just want to get what we have done to end customers. That’s the only goal for me and the team.

If we keep building and waiting for the perfect solutions to ship, We will do never do it. That’s like the long pending backlogs of my travel stories or book to write. I will never make it if I wait for 100% to be finished.

That’s why we launched landing pages before 2.5 years ago, received leads, have sales call and try to sale what we have. We used to sell only an android app because we can’t afford to hire a iOS developer. Similarly, we didn’t have a web app. All we had is every functionality as API. Because my partner is the one who does that. And there was a android guy. That’s how we started. And we really had support of interns on the last year.

So until a few days back, we never had a free version or self subscribing solution. Because if we go for free version, then we need a lot of human resource to support deployment of apps, feature configuration, etc. As a bootstrapped startup, we need to make money to self sustain us.

Early days we started doing everything manually. Those initial experience created a clear checklist for launching customer's project. Then the checklist become automated through admin panel. Then we released a self signup portal with still not giving free solution but a sandbox environment offering.

By consistently improving the manual process to automated, we have released this year with free version on production account which allows people to launch marketplace and commerce starting with ZERO $. And it’s live now. Apart from the challenges, our focus of the package is to CREATORS. They want to start with minimal cost.

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I don’t think we are still perfect. But we focused on selling with what we have, organic marketing and other feature developments for customers with resources what we have.

We have still weakness on no-code segment

• don’t have a great no-code builder
• don’t have a good design team to support building multiple themes
• I think we still have a lot of room on packaging and communicating the product as well.

It’s going to take some time, may be months or years :) until then, keep building and shipping.