2023
Our First SaaS Goes Live
We spent months building and testing before we finally pushed our first SaaS product live. Then came the harder part, which was getting people to actually use it. We put real money behind marketing, watched how early users moved through the app, and read every piece of feedback that came in. Some of it stung. Most of it made the product better. The same year we opened a small R&D team so we would always have something new in the pipeline.
2022
Bigger Workstation, Bigger Plan
In 2022 we moved into a new workstation and finally had room to grow. We hired developers who were better than us at the things we kept struggling with, and we gave them time to research instead of only shipping. Fintech took up most of that year. We built a wallet, an escrow system, a micro banking platform, and a mobile financing system, and we learned a lot the hard way while doing it.
2021
Planning Our Own Marketplace
People kept asking us where they could buy solid software without going through three middlemen first. That question turned into a plan. We studied the market, worked out who we were really building for, and wrote everything down. Which features to launch with, how the pricing would work, and how we would get those first few hundred customers through the door.
2020
Saying Goodbye to Envato
Envato gave us some very good years and we will not pretend otherwise. But things changed. Our items were getting nulled almost as fast as we released them, and chargebacks kept piling up month after month. We had been talking about running our own marketplace for a long time. We knew building one would be hard and keeping it alive would be harder. We decided to try anyway.
2019
Three Elite Badges
Three of our Envato accounts hit Level 7 in the first quarter of 2019, which made us Elite Authors. You can still see the badge on all three profiles. The part we still laugh about is the timing. Once the first badge landed, the other two showed up within twenty days.
2018
Level 6, Three Times Over
Three of our accounts crossed Level 6 in 2018, with more than 250 items live between them. We also stopped boxing ourselves into one type of work. Laravel applications, HTML templates, WordPress themes, mobile apps, plugins and extensions all became part of what we do. By the end of the year we were working with people, companies and marketplaces spread across the globe.
2017
Our First ThemeForest Template
With almost 200 items approved on Envato, we started wondering if we could design as well as we could code. ThemeForest was the test. Our first HTML template took three months of work and a few rejections before it finally got approved in 2017.
2016
Past the Hardest Part
Getting that first item approved was the wall. Once we were over it, everything moved faster. We submitted more than 40 items to CodeCanyon in a year, and for the first time buyers from outside Bangladesh started writing to us.
2015
First Item on CodeCanyon
We joined Envato and started submitting our work to CodeCanyon. The first item was approved in 2015. We had been talking about selling our own products for years, so that approval email felt a little unreal when it showed up.
2014
Stepping Away - Local Market
The math stopped working. Selling domains and hosting locally brought in a handful of clients, but the margins were thin and payments were always late. So we walked away from that market and put everything into building products instead. It was a nervous decision to make with no backup plan behind it.
2013
Changing Direction
By then the Bangladeshi market was crowded with domain and hosting providers, and we were just one more name on a long list. Competing on price was a race nobody wins. So we turned our attention to software and app development, where we could build something people could not get from the shop next door.
2012
Just Another New Name
We were the new company nobody had heard of. The bigger providers already had the clients, the trust and the pricing power. We signed a few customers for domain and hosting, mostly through friends and word of mouth, and spent the rest of the year learning how this industry works.
2011
Where It All Started
We started in 2011 with a name and not much else. The plan was simple. Sell domains and hosting to people around us, and figure out the rest as we went. No office, no team, no funding. Just a registered domain and a lot of nerve.