Bihance

July 16, 2024

Week1

One day a message appeared in whatsapp "Also bro, I rlly think we should start a fintech biz/startup tgt". What an intresting opportunity. Edus is a friend I met in NYP, EC club and he frequently post investment videos on youtube. We started brainstorming for ideas.

Week2

We wanted to do something with automation, ai and collaboration, maybe something like an automation tool. I build a automation tool and showed him. Together we discussed if this is a viable product. After trying to find value, we decided to scratch this idea. However we decided to call our project Bihance, shorted for business enhanced

Week3

Maybe a HR tool would be of some use. Edus shared with me that in a previous event job, they had an unconvient way to take attendance and he felt something can be done for it. During the sememster break, we found a logo that we liked and stuck to it. We started to investgate the feasability of it.

Week4

We crafted a plan to progress forward and we started cold calling to get feedback on our idea. I created a prototype MVP. We research more on what it takes to create a startup. Should we get a domain name? Maybe register for ACRA?

Week5

We registered for ARCA and got our first uen, WOHOO! We signed up for a networking event at SMU and printed shirts for it.

Week6

We went for our first networking session and I was intresting to get to know the experience from other startup founders

Week7

We think that our management is starting to get out of hand, as such we created a shared notion to organize things in a more orderly mannner as well as did new research into which bank account we should go for.

Week8

As part of our marketing strategy we looked into having a better seo, social media marketing as well as creating a feature request page to allow others to post what they want

Week9

After much consideration we bought our first service, a domain name with SAV at bihance.app, and proxied it over cloudflare, we created a email account at zoho for professional emailing. We made sure it worked over the school network

Week10

We bought our first business number to make a whatsapp business account as well as creating a pivot in strategy in our target audience. We created a drag and drop trello clone for a basic project management system

Week12

Joined Jumpstart workshop for the school and met with a group of likeminded people going for the award. Also went for the launch of the nyea competition where we met our mentor who will guide us for the competition.

Week13

Went for NYP solve as conducted by the technoprenuership club and had an intresting workshop as condusted by the club as well as Mr Dale, the CTO of connexion. I migrated the kanban board to a realtime collaborative tool as well as we aquired our first intrest into our solutions to help them create a custom shuttle bus management system

Week14

Migrated the checkin system from postgres to convex, met up with said client, went to Stagmond for Army related interview. Got our approval for CIMB bank account and will be futher refining our pitch for Jumpstart.

Week15

Just finished the Jumpstart mock pitch and met up with some target users. Many of them say that they do not need to use our service and would prefer to stick to whatsapp as their main way of managing events. Its time to pivot. Took part in nyp solve as well a lot of divation from the original plan, but will still get the most of what I have. Good thing we have not launch yet will be meeting with Ms Sun on how we can pivot. Really hoping to use really fun stuff like convex or even the ai sdk by vercel.

New Goals for this startup:

Year 1?

Eh I forgot to update this as well in awhile, basically heres the beef. Pronto said they hire us to do their work and dropped us slightly later. We joined virage as well, got good progress from there. No one was buying the idea of an end to end event management platform. Pivoted to a job finding platform and hired 2 guys for mobile dev, and we lost the second round of jumpstart.

Goals rn:

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