How did you launch your first product without any proprietary code?
Replied bySaahil Goel
Co-founder & CEO at Shiprocket
Niche: eCommerce
Revenue: Approx. $16 Million/month
Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
Started: 2012
We launched using Magento, which is an open-source e-commerce platform. We called it Cart Rocket, sold it to enterprises, and acted as an agency. I pretended we had a big team and did all the coding myself. That agency revenue funded our first two engineers before we raised venture capital.
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