Startup
Cafekado
Handicraft & Gift Online Platform
Year
2015–2022
Role
Founder, Project Manager, UI Developer, .NET Developer
Cafekado.ir was launched in 2015 as a simple handicraft online shop. Due to my passion to create a professional shop for selling handicrafts made by young people, my wife Sephora who is an artisan motivated me to step in this field. After a while thanks to heartwarming messages and feedbacks from artisans especially women who lived in far locations of Iran, we changed it to a 2-side platform where every artisan could establish their page — free of charge — list products and use safe online bank port.
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Building the Community
To build a successful platform you should firstly focus on building a vendors' community. I had a brilliant benchmark Etsy which was like a polar star for me in those years. I connected to artisans and asked them to join our community. Attending exhibitions and events related to handicrafts was one of my main activities.
Educating Artisans
As a platform we were in charge of any problems like bad packaging, late delivery, broken delivered products. We tried to make many videos and podcasts about creating content, photography, packaging, being ready for some occasions and holidays that received many heartwarming feedbacks from artisans.
Achievement
We won many awards and were nominated in many events. In one of those competitions, we got a prize from Minister of ICT of Iran in 2017. Cafekado for me is the abstract of everything that I've achieved in terms of designing and developing a product which many people should communicate with daily.