Rosie Langley Biography

No CAP. There COULD BE No Better Way for ME to Put it. I Had Never Been More Optimistic in My Life ABOUT ANY YEAR I WAS WIS and For A Few Good Reasons, One of Which Was that I Had Seen a Glimpse to Which My Life Life COULD GROW IF I STEPED OUT OF THE SIDE Lines. And I DID STEP OUT OF THE SIDE LINES LAST YEAR. I have Previously Documented a Few of My Endeavours on Launching and Scaling Ecomm Stores, But Not So Much ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED BEYOND that.

In, I set out on a similar journey as well - Found some unique products from an Exclusive Supplier, Whipped Up a Clean Store on Shopify and Went to Market in 5 Days ... Got ... Got ... GOT Spat out of the Market Rather too Quickly. What this Meant Was that Business Owners Woup Now have to Pay Extra in Terms of Logistics Cost to Serve Their Customers Right. Logistics Is Expensive, Especially in this Region Where the PRICES ALMOST Solely DETERMINED BY THE MOOD of the Dispatch Company Or Independent Riders.

So I DID A Thing, STEPED OUT OF THE SIDE Lines Into Wound now Be Called Cora Delivery. Enter Cora 1. Not Food Vendors. Not Large Corporations. Not fintechs. Think that Instagram Vendor Selling Thrifts, Or that Student Who Runs a Telegram Group for Turkey Bags Pre-Ororder. SOMEONE HAD to Be Catering for this Group Too, Right? This Theme Set the Direction in Which We Were to Build, and Model.

BUT What If We COLD SLOWS Down A BIT FORYONE with NEXT-DAY DELIVERY, HOW Feasible Was That Going To Be? I HAD A POLL PUT UP on Instagram, WOULD You Rather PAY PER KM for Same Day Delivery or It Delved Day for A Fixed Price. BUT Talk IS Cheap, WOULD THE PROSPECTIVE CUSTOMERS PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS? That was the ultimate liteMus for me. The ThumbHt Process Behind this Again Was Simple; there are a Handful of Existing Players in the Logistics Space and Hundreds of Independent Alternatives Out There, Wood Customers Still Give a Shot to Handle Their Deliveries?

I Whipped Up a WordPress Site in A Few Days to Serve AS A Landing Page But Rather Creating A Boring Waitlist Site, I took It Furthally Measure User Intent and Commitment. I Added a Dummy Sign Up Page Complete with A Welcome Email to Test IF PEOPLE WULD Be Willing ENUGH To Give Their Personal Details for This Unknown Service. It worked. Cora Delivery Sign-Up Page Complete with A Welcome Email Themail There Was no Faking this, Business Owners Had Pain and Found Solution Worth Exploring.

From 0 to 1. Again, this proproud Had to be stud Simple to use. Function Over aesthetics. And Flutter Is Different from Kotlin? How then Do I Know Which Is Suitable to Build in? Needless to Say, the Were Some Expensive Mistakes Made, Literally. Like Building Out The First Version On -android Nating Using Java and Having the Entire Backend Database on a Server I Had No Access to - Rookie Mistake, I Know Right!.

GOT RippeD Off on that First Version For Sure. But, it was all a good albeit expensive learning phase. AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS of Tweaking Things Out with The Devs and Multiple Qa Tests, We EventUly Pushed to Production and Deployed Onroid Only. This happeneed to be the first of many Things to go with la Launch. Back End Functionalites Surpringly Just Stopped Working.

And so Next Few Week Read as Months Really Saw MEWDRAWING All Publicity Efforts and Being Back in A Place of Uncertain ABOUT WHAT NEXT - Especially SINE SUNK A LOT of Personal Savings Into this Project and Cold Barely Affford to Hire Another Dev to Fix Thugs! I Brushed It OFF AS Impossible Almost Immediatly Without Giving It Much Though. FAST Forward to A Few Restless Weeks Again, Read as Months Later, I Finally Deceded to Take A Deeper Dive Potential Solution.

Indeed, What I Searched for in Sokoto Was Actually Right in the Sokoto. BUT AS BASIC as it Sounds, IT DID Work SOME MAGIC and RekindLED WHATEVER WANING MOTIVATION I HAD LEFT.

The Charts Speak for Itself. Moving Forward! Considering the Projections and Milestones I Had Planned Towards When Launching this Project, Compared to All The Numbers Which Are Pretty Much Flatline, This Project Comes Off AS a Failed Attempt at Launching Someting Out There. SOME DAYS I ASK MySELF, WHY LOGISTICS? Who not saas, or infrastructure Which is Buzzy by the Way? The Simple Truth is; Logistics Is Hard, But Even Hard Things Need to Be Done By Someone.

Save Youurself the Stress! Blitzscaling is not your Mate! Tech Heavy VS Asset Heavy Are Two Very Different Games and Each Require a Special Set of Skills. Simple is Smart! Find Discipline from Within. Do the Things You Say You Woup Do. Surround Yourself with The Right Support System. Moving Forward, The Goal Is Pretty Simple; Stay Alive! Optimize for Wau Retention. Getting Feedback from Early Customers Each Time an Order Is Fulfilled Is Simply Beautiful to Seee.

Cheers to Day 1. Cora Delivery App.