Aditya Kothadiya's Blog

I’m very excited to share a new journey with you – Shopialize.com. It’s my journey towards building an innovative, valuable, and fun solution for shopping enthusiasts on the web. To start with, it’s a part-time project. Many of you must have already raised your eye-brows saying can we start something successfully in the part-time? Frankly speaking, I don’t know the answer. And that’s exactly my motive behind sharing this journey with you – to see if we can start a project in the part-time or not? And if yes, how? It’s going to be a long journey and I hope the end is fruitful.

What I’ll be doing?

I plan to share the experiences that I learn, challenges I face, and accomplishments I achieve while building a part-time project with you. Since it’s going to be a part-time project, the challenges that I’ll be facing will be different than working on a full-time project. But I don’t think they will be less in any manner. In fact they could be more as well.

My goal is to write a weekly or bi-weekly update about my progress on different activities involved in running this project. I’ll mainly write about -

• progress on product development front
• progress on business and marketing front
• lessons learned in both technical and business world
• processes I follow to achieve my goals
• and more…

At this moment, I can’t really dive into the details of the idea, but all I can say is it’s going to be in the social shopping space.

For many of you, Shopialize.com is not new. Yes, I had started a social shopping application before with the same name, but unfortunately that idea didn’t quite work well. I had to shut it down before I launched it to the masses. There were some flaws, so I needed to rethink the idea and the business model as well. As they say – the best entrepreneurs know how to fail fast. I hope that was the same reason for me

After brainstorming on idea and business model for quite some time now, I came up with a very innovative and fun idea into social shopping space. I’m continuing with the same brand – Shopialize for “shop and socialize”, but I’ll be developing a completely new product from the scratch – with the new focus and the new energy.

Why I’ll be doing it?

The main reason behind sharing my journey with you instead of working on it in the stealth mode is – my believe that this information will be useful to potential wanna-be part-time entrepreneurs.

I also wanted to be answerable to someone while I work on this project. Since it’s a part-time activity and there is no boss who will monitor my progress, it’s very likely that I may fall short of my promises and may skip the deadlines. So I thought it’ll be great if I become answerable to my readers. This will help me to stay focused and get things done as promised.

I also hope if I share my day-to-day activities and thought process with you guys and if there is something wrong with it, then you can correct me by discussing it in the comments section or emailing me.

Another reason is that I want to sit down every week, retrospect about the things that I achieved and things I couldn’t, and think about the next action plan based on my progress in last week. Writing things down will help me to streamline my thought process and be more effective.

As of today, I’ve just created a invite sign-up page at Shopialize.com – enter your details for beta invites. I’m just getting started, but I’ll finish soon.

Few things that I’ll be working on in immediate future are – formalizing the idea and product plan, getting legal things on the paper, evaluating and studying necessary technologies and forming a team. So I’ll get back to work and will update you the progress in the next week. Wish me your best luck