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Looks like you might need to farm out specific problems (e.g. I need a website, built on technology X, that has THESE capabilities). You could just put those specific tasks out to tender on a programmers-for-hire site. Unless you are happy to part with some equity in your company. Here are some links on this topic to help.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tech-co-founder-myth-vijay-ga...

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-good-technical-co-founde...

http://web.archive.org/web/20120229131356/http://lederhosenl...

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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 co-founder" question in my head and hence the post.

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.

Curious: what impact did that have on her sales numbers?

It streamlined the process significantly, lowering the total "handling time" from a couple of hours to ~10-15m in total, which freed up time to tend to custom commissions from clients.

I don't have serious hard numbers before that, as the CRM saw its first commit around sale #6.

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.

you should just blog about whatsapp selling and sell your services; other than selling to Chinese on wechat I have no idea what this even is or how/why it works.

below you said you are running whatsapp sales for b&m shops, but how do customers find you? afaik whatsapp has no discovery features.

If are really curious, I would be glad to explain on a call on how a customer finds us, how a sale happens and money is collected.

don't wanna post exactly how that is done publicly (yet)

you could have multiple monitors instead of multiple monitors and machines

Thanks for pointing that out. I actually do have only multiple monitors. (not machines)

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