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Re: Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?

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Post by arjunvpaul »

doubleplusgood wrote: post #6
arjunvpaul wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the links. Yes, I would happily give away equity to a cofounder who can manage the tech side of things. I can scale this thing up a few 100K dollars a year the way I am doing this now. But it is excel sheets and 3 computers side by side so I can see product info, customer info etc side by side. Its just ugly. lol. I need some elegance in my life now. I have settled the "should I really bring-on a technical…

My wife has a small business similar to yours, and I ended up building a micro CRM for her, complete with scraping (some of our vendors don't offer an Api), reports, invoicing etc.

My story is similar. My friends wife was selling Indian women clothes and I took a stab at re-jigging her business for the "messaging-first" world. worked like a charm. she is now selling a very non-differentiated product at the rate of 1 every 20 working minutes. :-)

so now we have good problems to solve like actually needing a CRM, invoicing etc that I hoping to do via a web app.

Once that is done, it could be sold to other similar businesses. I have already done some presales using my mockups and there is interest.

Re: Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?

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Post by arjunvpaul »

viach wrote: post #7

I'm currently writing CRM for Whatsapp and Messendger. Clients list, calendar, products list, messages history. Is it what you are interested in?

Yeah I would say so. Here are a couple of animations that I made in Keynote to show how the web app could be structured

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcEoVlmiok

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guA6trEPNls

I just want to "reduce stupidity" now. for example when I get a message saying "haven't got my product yet!!" . I have no clue who this person is or what they ordered without doing a forensic audit of the chat history.

Re: Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?

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Post by arjunvpaul »

ajinvw wrote: post #3

currently we @Nexart solving similar kind of problem. They were selling through Whatsapp. In there case the solution we suggested was better. May be i can suggest you some solution and act on it. you can mail me at ajinvwilson@gmail.com

Hi there, are you part of a development house? will send you an email to discuss but I am not looking to outsource work at this point. Just a cofounder who believes in business model enough to work for equity.

Re: Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?

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Post by viach »

arjunvpaul wrote: post #13
viach wrote: post #7

I'm currently writing CRM for Whatsapp and Messendger. Clients list, calendar, products list, messages history. Is it what you are interested in?

Yeah I would say so. Here are a couple of animations that I made in Keynote to show how the web app could be structured - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcEoVlmiok - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guA6trEPNls I just want to "reduce stupidity" now. for example when I get a message saying "haven't got my product yet!!" . I have no clue who this person is or what they ordered without doing a forensic audit of the cha…

Great mockups. Hm, I'm actually quite impressed by the fact my idea finds sort of real business validation here. If you want you can always drop a message to me (email in contacts)

Re: Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?

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Post by mandeepj »

Hi Arjun! There are lot of open source, pay-as-you-go (very cheap) crm products that might fit your need. Have you explored any?

Having a tech cofounder gives its own advantages But why you are not Hiring a tech person to quickly build your mvp to simplify your life? It will not cost you much. Once this takes off then you can take the call whether u still need a tech cofounder.

Re: Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?

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Post by arjunvpaul »

mandeepj wrote: post #18

Hi Arjun! There are lot of open source, pay-as-you-go (very cheap) crm products that might fit your need. Have you explored any? Having a tech cofounder gives its own advantages But why you are not Hiring a tech person to quickly build your mvp to simplify your life? It will not cost you much. Once this takes off then you can take the call whether u still need a tech cofounder.

Thanks for the tip. Would you know of any CRM products that would work with WhatsApp?
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