It’s becoming real! The dev team and I have been chatting and this upcoming week will be putting quite a bit of “skin on the bones” of our creation.

It is coming ALIVE!

The structural foundation has been constructed for the majority of 2024, and now entering September we will have a functional marketplace with live transactions to buy products, with a system of adding and streamlining the purchase and logistics workflow.

It is a massive milestone.

The marketing and business development team is working on stepping up. There has been discussions with marketing agency Mike has previous history with that is very excited and has sent a proposal we are reviewing. It will include re-engaging the previous users, all those who have been opting in on the various lists of Loadpipe and Hamza, and preparing a campaign leading up to our public beta scheduled for end of September / early October.

On top of the marketing agency and re-engagement campaign, a road show is being prepared for late September / Early October with Global From Asia community (with Flippa) and Hamza will use this as a way to get early adopters in various key cities in SE Asia. More on this coming soon.

The BD team and product team will also discuss about the “flywheel” effect that needs to also be built into the product. This will be affiliate, coupon, and other effects to make the site more sticky and improve retention and repeat orders.

Also a support system and help desk is being fleshed out with key questions from focus groups we have collected.

The finance department is being brought up to speed on the workflow and logistics, to help us prepare more cashflow statements and financial reports for our fundraising efforts.

Yet our strategy remains the same, we are building a functional marketplace with our current funds, getting data and measuring. What some may call a lean startup methodology model – we want to slowly come into the market with a beta, listen to the users, modify, and then scale up with investors and marketing.

This last week of August will be a massive product development sprint. It will define  the marketplace even more and help us define the rest of this year.

We are making history, a decentralized ecommerce marketplace as a foundation of all our massive goals and ambitions here.