SERVICE
Your real value is the marketplace and the data. We help you spend engineering time on product onboarding, payments and building the market itself.
Most ecommerce products don't need a custom platform. Some genuinely do.
The platform is the vehicle, not the product. Here's what's actually worth your engineering time.
Tech & templates
Launch
A theme or platform, same as everyone else's
Year 1
Competitors clone the same template
Year 2
Still generic — anyone can copy it
Year 3
Still replaceable, still not a moat
Compounds over time
Launch
First products and buyers onboarded
Year 1
Buyer relationships and trust forming
Year 2
Purchase data sharpens recommendations
Year 3
A market position competitors can't copy
Tech & templates
Launch
A theme or platform, same as everyone else's
Year 1
Competitors clone the same template
Year 2
Still generic — anyone can copy it
Year 3
Still replaceable, still not a moat
Compounds over time
Launch
First products and buyers onboarded
Year 1
Buyer relationships and trust forming
Year 2
Purchase data sharpens recommendations
Year 3
A market position competitors can't copy
The biggest ecommerce players don't win on design or tech. They win because they're where people go to buy.
Whether you're launching on a proven platform or building custom, we use tools matched to what the project actually needs.
Pre-built engines get you selling in weeks, not quarters.
Custom builds ready for the volume templates can't handle.
Card, PayPal and crypto, so customers can pay their way.
Engineering time focused on onboarding and growth.
Finance
BFlow represents a transformative journey in the automation of the accounting process. Our partnership with this Swedish digital accounting agency evolved from initial technical support to a comprehensive system overhaul, culminating in our role as the main technology partner and investor. This project showcases our ability to modernize legacy systems, scale applications, and support businesses through various growth stages - from startup to market expansion.
For most startups, don't build what you can buy — a pre-built shop engine gets you selling faster. Custom makes sense once scalability and customization genuinely become the priority.
It depends on your buyers, but payment options matter either way. Supporting card, PayPal and crypto payments means payment method is never the reason someone abandons a purchase.
Your real value is your data and marketplace presence. Time spent reinventing things you could buy off the shelf rarely builds long-term value.
Onboard as many products as possible and build genuine buyer interest. The platform gets people to a purchase; the marketplace is what makes them come back.
They win because they're where people already go to buy: a defensible market position built over time.
Picked for founders deciding where to actually invest in their ecommerce product
Development
Choosing an MVP development company determines whether your first version teaches you anything useful. Pick well, and you get a product that tests your actual hypothesis with real users. Pick badly, and you get code you cannot extend, data you cannot trust, and a few months you cannot get back. I have run Milo Solutions for sixteen years and watched founders make the same avoidable mistakes here. This guide covers how to evaluate partners and where the real risk sits.
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Development
Every founder who asks me what an MVP costs has read three articles saying the answer sits between $10,000 and $500,000. That range is true and useless for building a budget.Most MVPs land between $45,000 and $91,000, the standard row in the cost table below: 700 to 1,200 hours at senior Central and Eastern European rates. A thin slice starts at $19,000 and marketplace work reaches $190,000. Where you fall comes down to five things: how much you build, who builds it, what you connect to, how much design you buy, and what you commit to after launch. The number follows the scope.
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Development
The expensive way to find out that nobody wants your product is to build it all and launch. The projects that reach me in the worst shape are the ones where a founder spent nine months on engineering questions before answering the demand question, and then watched the signups flatten within weeks.MVP testing means checking that people want and will pay for your product before you build it. Name the assumption that sinks the idea if it turns out to be wrong, pick the cheapest test that measures what people actually do, set your pass threshold in advance, then decide whether to build, pivot, or stop.CB Insights examined 431 venture-backed companies that shut down since 2023 and identified the reason for failure in 385 of them. Of those 385, 43% had poor product-market fit and 70% ran out of capital, which the report treats as the final cause of death rather than the root problem; and because the analysis assigns several reasons to each company, the percentages total more than 100. Companies rarely run out of money doing something customers were desperate to pay for.
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