The chat is the shop.
Sellers keep being told to send people to a website. Their customers do not want a website — they want to ask a question and get an answer. We build for where the sale actually happens.
Since 2023, we've been trying to build something that people would genuinely use.
Most of our ideas started the same way: over a chai break.
We would sit together, throw around a hundred ideas, get excited about a few of them, and then go back to work. We were good at brainstorming. Actually building was a different story.
One day, Chirang came up with an idea. What if people could earn money from things they already own but barely use? A badminton racket sitting in the corner. A guitar that hasn't been played in months. A watch that rarely gets worn. Useful things, just sitting there, that someone else needs right now.
It was an interesting idea. It was also still just an idea.
Around the same time, Aezaz had started a baby clothing business and was learning what running a small shop actually takes.
Then came another chai break. Aezaz said something that sounded ordinary, but landed like a problem worth solving:
“Managing everything is getting really difficult.”
Customer messages were arriving through Instagram and WhatsApp. Enquiries were getting missed. Keeping track of who wanted what, answering the same questions, and turning those conversations into actual orders had become a job in itself.
That is when it clicked. The problem was never that small businesses lacked customers. The problem was that the business depended too much on the owner being online.
That became Zippsite: somewhere a shop can put its products, let customers find them and buy them, and keep selling even when nobody is sitting there replying to messages.
Because a business shouldn't stop just because its founder goes to sleep.
That's what we're building: a way for people to sell while they sleep.