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1. We are working with phonegap at the moment, hope this doesn't change anytime soon.

2. Perhaps I shouldn't be too hung up on the idea of having to be revolutionary. We always produce polished mockups and test ideas often. That's in fact one of the edge that we have.

3. As for customer lists, unfortunately we do not own those, our clients(business) own them. They are very interested to work with us because our new mobile app would give them an edge over other competitors and of course trying to stop us from competing with them on the e-commerce web application.

4. We do not have a repeatable sales process hence it's very tedious as we have to win them from scratch again. It's definitely not scalable at this stage. You raised some good points, will need to re-look this.

5. We have not try any early-payment discount as what we are earning from each sales are rather minimal as we are doing constant testing of ideas. Guess we have to look into raising our price and also the implementation of early-payment discount.

Thank you for the good questions asked.

That is actually our main problem, we are stuck due to that and are unable to expand accordingly thanks to all the late payment.

Definitely agree with going home first. Will re-evaluate the option of getting in bed with the bigs carefully.

Thank you.

Yes, that's the consolation and driving force for us to continue what we are doing.

Of course, the big question remains "What's next after this?" and how do we go about building a business instead of being stuck at the startup stage.

We are pretty focus on customer development. However, we are also worried that our customers are not sure of what they really want, that's why we have been thinking what other innovations can be done for the industry.

Guess I am really burned out. Have stopped attending tech events quite a while now to avoid distractions. It's time to go back.

Thanks for the advice.

For item 5, just the 2 of us, we need less than $8k per month.

Edit: we didn't go native because we need to cater to other platforms. Also, my co-founder is not confident with going native

Thank you for the feedback!

Possible option of course. Will consider this after I exhaust all other options.

You are right to touch on personal goals. Personally i feel that what we are doing is rather superficial and it doesn't really impact the world.

I did went through this exercise before and was on the edge of leaving the company after realizing the company will not be aligned with what I want to do in life. Unfortunately, I ended up staying as the company was just about to pick up and I am too invested to just leave.

Time to rethink I guess.