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This is Mehrdad, the Co-Founder of Selldone (Selldone = Sell + Done!) In 1900 starting a business was easy and affordable. But today, thanks to digital transfo

This is Mehrdad, the Co-Founder of Selldone (Selldone = Sell + Done!) In 1900 starting a business was easy and affordable. But today, thanks to digital transformation, it's costly and time-consuming. It shouldn't be! That's why we have built Selldone. In short, Selldone is a Business OS where entrepreneurs can create ecommerce stores for selling online and offline. Whether you build hand-made products or provide pet care services, sell coaching courses or gift cards, Selldone suits all your needs to visually set up, manage, and scale your business! Story behind our startup: My colleague Alireza and I have been friends for 16 years + 12 years of partnership in our startups. The most tedious work in all of them was setting up and managing an ecommerce (Login, install a bunch of plugins, templates that were always broken after a while, waking up at 2 AM site were down and ...)! In 2018, we started building a dedicated ecommerce for our previous company, something that is impossible to ruin! ...2019...2020... We met guys who had the same problem! We demoed our shopping management panel to them, and they loved it. They needed "An online shop that always works like a Swiss watch! Simple to work, fast, and scalable!" That was the seed of our next startup. Is Selldone another ecommerce platform? No. We follow a fresh approach; no plugins and no template install are needed. All you require are pre-integrated in Selldone, such as Stripe for Payment, Shippo for Shipping, and many more features exclusively by Selldone. We have provided a wide range of tools to help you set up, sell and manage your business, from Selldone POS for in-store selling to page designer for building catchy pages.

vector_spaces 4y ago
Sorry I don't have more helpful feedback than this, but I wanted to call out that Spanish in Spanish is español, not española. Good luck with this!
- abusaidm 4y ago
  another thing to point out when visiting the site from UK I am met with option of languages, welsh (UK flag) and English (US Flag). :| Wales has its own flag and and english you can use the UK or England flag if you wanted to distinguish regions
  - 4lejandrito 4y ago
    Using flags for languages is not recommended. I made the same mistake in the past: http://expectedly.org/inclusivetech/avoid-using-flags-to-designate-languages/ http://expectedly.org/inclusivetech/avoid-using-flags-to-des...
  - yorwba 4y ago
    > welsh (UK flag) Presumably to distinguish UK Welsh from Patagonian Welsh (Argentine flag): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonian_Welsh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonian_Welsh
elric 4y ago
This looks like a pretty cool product (I say that, having built something similar back in 2007 or so). I would strongly suggest getting a professional copywriter to fine tune the site content. Or at least a native English speaker. It would be a shame to lose out on business simply because the content looks a bit unprofessional.
- sputr 4y ago
  I would second this – looks interesting, but the copy is a bit clunky and unclear.
- sdoering 4y ago
  I can only second this. I was asked if I want to do business in German or English and clicked on German. The automated translation was so bad it was out of anything I would consider business worthy. If I were to recommend such a thing to my clients they would laugh at me. And with every right to do so. It might be a cool product. I didn't pass the language hurdle to evaluate, though. Instant bounce for me. Edit: Typo
  - pajuhaan 4y ago
    Yes, I agree with you. I put a notice to inform which languages have been translated by machine. Human translation is a time-consuming task and is being done over time. Also, Our community is helping us with some language translation. +Text on the home page has a context, so its machine translation is horrible :-/ The translation problem will be fixed in the next few weeks.
- cutler 4y ago
  Yes, it's all about brand trust at this stage so best to just get hold of a native English speaker.
SeanLuke 4y ago
> No. We follow a fresh approach; no plugins and no template install are needed. All you require are pre-integrated in Selldone, such as Stripe for Payment, Shippo for Shipping, and many more features exclusively by Selldone. We have provided a wide range of tools to help you set up, sell and manage your business, from Selldone POS for in-store selling to page designer for building catchy pages. You can't just say something like that on Hacker News of all places. Wasn't this exactly the description of ViaWeb?
- pajuhaan 4y ago
  Hi, Can you explain more about it? I tried to find thing related to it and just found a blog post by Paul Graham about ViaWeb 1995. All ecommerce platforms and website builders offer templates and plugins as a feature of their services, we totally remove the needs of those, so it's the difference between selldone and others that I highlighted.
  - SeanLuke 4y ago
    Hint: when Graham and Morris developed Viaweb, there were no such things as templates and plugins. This isn't to say your site isn't cool; and an all-in-one approach is maybe a good idea in 2022. But claiming it's a "fresh approach" with "no plugins and no template install" on Hacker News is a bit ironic given its founders.

vector_spaces 4y ago

Sorry I don't have more helpful feedback than this, but I wanted to call out that Spanish in Spanish is español, not española. Good luck with this!

abusaidm 4y ago
another thing to point out when visiting the site from UK I am met with option of languages, welsh (UK flag) and English (US Flag). :| Wales has its own flag and and english you can use the UK or England flag if you wanted to distinguish regions
- 4lejandrito 4y ago
  Using flags for languages is not recommended. I made the same mistake in the past: http://expectedly.org/inclusivetech/avoid-using-flags-to-designate-languages/ http://expectedly.org/inclusivetech/avoid-using-flags-to-des...
- yorwba 4y ago
  > welsh (UK flag) Presumably to distinguish UK Welsh from Patagonian Welsh (Argentine flag): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonian_Welsh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonian_Welsh

elric 4y ago

This looks like a pretty cool product (I say that, having built something similar back in 2007 or so). I would strongly suggest getting a professional copywriter to fine tune the site content. Or at least a native English speaker. It would be a shame to lose out on business simply because the content looks a bit unprofessional.

sputr 4y ago
I would second this – looks interesting, but the copy is a bit clunky and unclear.
sdoering 4y ago
I can only second this. I was asked if I want to do business in German or English and clicked on German. The automated translation was so bad it was out of anything I would consider business worthy. If I were to recommend such a thing to my clients they would laugh at me. And with every right to do so. It might be a cool product. I didn't pass the language hurdle to evaluate, though. Instant bounce for me. Edit: Typo
- pajuhaan 4y ago
  Yes, I agree with you. I put a notice to inform which languages have been translated by machine. Human translation is a time-consuming task and is being done over time. Also, Our community is helping us with some language translation. +Text on the home page has a context, so its machine translation is horrible :-/ The translation problem will be fixed in the next few weeks.
cutler 4y ago
Yes, it's all about brand trust at this stage so best to just get hold of a native English speaker.

SeanLuke 4y ago

> No. We follow a fresh approach; no plugins and no template install are needed. All you require are pre-integrated in Selldone, such as Stripe for Payment, Shippo for Shipping, and many more features exclusively by Selldone. We have provided a wide range of tools to help you set up, sell and manage your business, from Selldone POS for in-store selling to page designer for building catchy pages. You can't just say something like that on Hacker News of all places. Wasn't this exactly the description of ViaWeb?

pajuhaan 4y ago
Hi, Can you explain more about it? I tried to find thing related to it and just found a blog post by Paul Graham about ViaWeb 1995. All ecommerce platforms and website builders offer templates and plugins as a feature of their services, we totally remove the needs of those, so it's the difference between selldone and others that I highlighted.
- SeanLuke 4y ago
  Hint: when Graham and Morris developed Viaweb, there were no such things as templates and plugins. This isn't to say your site isn't cool; and an all-in-one approach is maybe a good idea in 2022. But claiming it's a "fresh approach" with "no plugins and no template install" on Hacker News is a bit ironic given its founders.