First Cotton
A Startup Attempt to digitize B2B cotton trade
A Startup Attempt to digitize B2B cotton trade
A Startup Attempt to digitize B2B cotton trade
First cotton aimed to examine the cotton supply chain, identify the challenges faced by stakeholders, and propose solutions to improve efficiency, sustainability, and ethical practices.
First cotton aimed to examine the cotton supply chain, identify the challenges faced by stakeholders, and propose solutions to improve efficiency, sustainability, and ethical practices.
First cotton aimed to examine the cotton supply chain, identify the challenges faced by stakeholders, and propose solutions to improve efficiency, sustainability, and ethical practices.
Our efforts included market research, user study, building poc and pitching to the investors. I participated in this journey for about one and half years.
Contributed by doing market study, designing and architecting the platform, forming tech team and building the digital platform, bootstrapped and did some operational work too. Below is the Deck we pitched to multiple investors
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Our efforts included market research, user study, building poc and pitching to the investors. I participated in this journey for about one and half years.
Contributed by doing market study, designing and architecting the platform, forming tech team and building the digital platform, bootstrapped and did some operational work too. Below is the Deck we pitched to multiple investors
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Our efforts included market research, user study, building poc and pitching to the investors. I participated in this journey for about one and half years.
Contributed by doing market study, designing and architecting the platform, forming tech team and building the digital platform, bootstrapped and did some operational work too. Below is the Deck we pitched to multiple investors
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Below are some of the the screens from the POC. All of the below was done in about 4 months.
Below are some of the the screens from the POC. All of the below was done in about 4 months.
Below are some of the the screens from the POC. All of the below was done in about 4 months.
Login & Home Page
Mobile OTP auth for easy access.
The home page featured Inventory details, prices of cotton in the market, and futures.
Lots are the collection of bales (100-140).
The first image is the lots page, which shows available inventory and details. Each card bears the average quality metrics of the lot, which is ubiquitous to the trade.
The overlay in the second screen pops up on clicking the card, revealing more detailed metrics. It has interaction to view certificates and messages.
The bottom buttons are to toggle between different lots.
The third item in the image is a cotton test certificate. We operated labs to test the cotton and provided the certificates ourselves.
Messages was the UX we wanted to provide as the whole of the lot trade business is running by sharing information on Whatsapp. We gave a intuitive feel to the platform.
Test data is easily accessible through the chat page as seen in the overlay(third image).
Parties could initiate contract from from the app. The Buyer can the initiate the contract (Image 1) and the seller can view and accept (Image 2)
Post some feebacks from users we ideated and added a feature where buyers could could post demand and suppliers could bid. Building on the similar UX we had.
Honestly, the is capital heavy and it could not be scalable. We learn this the hard way after doing our pilot. The main blocker was that the testing of cotton could give ambiguous results as the labs we had and used in the industry don't actually maintaining the standards those machine require and the highly standard machines will cost a fortune even if we had the money.
Altough it didn't take it provided ground to build my product skills to transition into product management roles.
