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We ran an e-commerce mobile app. There were no real tools for this; things like Shopify were designed for web.

So we built a whole shopping cart and inventory management system from scratch. It was good enough that people were willing to pay for it. But we were only 98% confident in it so we kept it internal.

We also didn't have the funds to develop or keep testing it. If we shut down the company, I might open source it.

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> It was good enough that people were willing to pay for it

> We also didn't have the funds to develop or keep testing it

I have to wonder, why did these not cancel each other out?

They mentioned that they weren't confident enough in the system to sell it, which is a shame because it sounds like an awesome service/opportunity.

It takes a while to go from 98% confident to 99.9%. And a lot of refactoring. Internal tools can be really sloppy, especially when we were selling like 3 items a day.

Something that's paid for and trusted to manage several million dollars worth of inventory has to be a lot more robust.

Investors didn't like the idea. I guess we didn't sell it well as one of them invested in someone else doing the same thing but with less experience.

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