I made a recipe app. I hated ads, and we figured they were really inefficient too. People in a health recipe app want food stuff, and they'd get ads for chocola

I made a recipe app. I hated ads, and we figured they were really inefficient too. People in a health recipe app want food stuff, and they'd get ads for chocolate or blow up dolls. So I released the app with a "store" button that went to a coming soon page, but let people enter their postcode if they were interested. We also released with a really janky chat system that just flooded later with people asking for where to get some ingredients. We found a partner who sold diet ingredients. They offered to do distribution and delivery, and we'd just tell them who to send it to, then pay 2 weeks later. I added a janky cart system. Users would click add to cart with their personal details and it adds the whole thing to the db. We'd then link the items into a cart based on phone number && delivery status (I did not take database classes at this point and did not know about normalization and JOIN TABLE). So we released expecting someone to accidentally click add to card on maybe 3 items. But nope, it was 300 items within the first hour. What's worse was we didn't have an order management system. I expected most of it to be pranks and fake numbers, but they were real. So I did probably the most heroic bit of coding since college and built a whole order management system in a day. It bundled orders into a "cart", had templates for WhatsApp telling people where to bank in cash, notified an admin if payment or delivery was pending past N days, and let us track who received the orders. Day 1 features. Customers loved the really hands on service, especially us asking if they received the package. We spent 3 full days, day and night, trying to clear the backlog. Orders kept coming in. I asked an accelerator mentor what to do in such a situation, and he said they'd just take the latest orders because the ones from days ago would already be pissed and cancel by now.