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Anonymous Founder F
Gurgaon, India • Founded 2024
Logistics Tracking System
D2C brands were drowning in shipment tracking chaos. He built an aggregator and makes ₹5.2L/month
The Problem
D2C brands waste 10 hours/week tracking shipments across 5 different courier portals
The Journey
Discovery
I was helping a friend run his D2C skincare brand. He'd spend entire mornings logging into Delhivery, Bluedart, Xpressbees, Ecom Express-checking where orders were. Absolutely soul-crushing work. I saw similar complaints on Twitter from other D2C founders. Everyone had this problem but nobody had built a simple solution.
Validation
Posted on Twitter: 'D2C founders, would you pay ₹5000/month to track all your shipments in one dashboard?' Got 40+ replies saying yes. Built a waitlist landing page, got 78 signups in a week. That convinced me this was real pain worth solving.
Building
I didn't overcomplicate it. Built a dashboard that pulls data from all major courier APIs and shows everything in one place. Added email/WhatsApp alerts for delays. Took me 3 months to build because I had to integrate with 8 different courier companies. Each one had terrible documentation. Pure pain.
Launch
Launched in D2C Facebook groups and WhatsApp communities. First 10 customers were people I cold-DMed on Twitter. Offered them first month free. Once they saw it worked, they paid. Then they told their D2C friends. That's how B2B grows-slowly but sticky.
Growth
Hit product-market fit when customers started demanding more features-NDR management, RTO reduction, analytics. I built those. Now at 95 brands using it, paying ₹5,499/month average. Some bigger brands pay up to ₹15K. ₹5.2L MRR and I haven't spent a rupee on ads.
Results
Key Lessons
- •API integrations are painful but once built, they're your moat. Nobody wants to redo that work.
- •D2C founders talk to each other constantly. Make one happy, get 5 referrals.
- •WhatsApp alerts are more valuable than fancy dashboards. Founders are always on WhatsApp.
- •Solve for mid-size brands (100-500 orders/day). Giants have in-house solutions, tiny guys can't pay.
- •Don't compete with Shiprocket. Complement them. They do fulfillment, you do tracking.
Tech Stack
Anonymous Founder F's Advice
Find industries where people juggle 5-10 different tools. Build one tool that combines them. Nobody wants to log into 8 dashboards daily. This pattern works for logistics, marketing, finance-basically any ops-heavy business. Just make sure the APIs are available before you start building.
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