A few years ago I came up with this orders portal idea at work,which nothing special on its own,but was unique to the industry. My manager blocks it on the basi

A few years ago I came up with this orders portal idea at work,which nothing special on its own,but was unique to the industry. My manager blocks it on the basis that it isn't easy enough to use and our clients would definitely need a,b,c features. Eventually we drop it all together. After some time, my manager quits and I took over his position. After a few months I have a meeting with sales,who are asking how long would it take to create an orders portal. I explain a bit about my previous attempt in a vague manner and they tell me that anything woul be better than nothing and should work on it. We launch after few weeks.I tell the rest of the management about my new ingenious solution. Clients love it. It's basic but it's zillion times better than anything they had before. The thing is now part of the offering to large corporates and it did help to win some nice contracts. The portal is still buggy,a bit hard to use, have very few features and so on.