... Today I recorded a full Okiela product tour. Nothing fancy: just me, a demo skincare store, and the exact path a new user takes - from signup to seeing real profit numbers on the dashboard. I built Okiela

... routine looked very familiar: Print Shopify revenue Open 2 3 Excel files Manually subtract COGS, ad spend, shipping, random fees Stay up late, end up with a profit number he doesn t really trust I asked him to try Okiela the way it is today: Upload the Shopify Orders CSV Import his COGS sheet Add a few big cost buckets (ads, payroll, apps) Maybe 30 seconds later, the dashboard showed: The SKUs that are actually paying the bills Two best ... ... regions is way more expensive than the rest His reply was: I don t need another shiny dashboard. I just need something that tells me what s feeding me and what s bleeding me. That s pretty much what Okiela

... this is a very fair question: If I can just use free ChatGPT/Grok/Gemini to upload my CSV and analyze sales, why do I need Okiela? *The short answer: ChatGPT is a brilliant general-purpose tool. Okiela

... Over the past few days I ve been shipping critical improvements to Okiela s payment flow via Polar (built on Stripe), so that early users can upgrade from Free Pro ($29/mo) smoothly and I can finally see real, healthy cashflow. The backend and Polar integration are stable, but since Feb 27 (VN time) several frontend deploys to Vercel have failed. That means a lot of UX and billing fixes are merged in code, but not yet live ... ... technical founder, this is a humbling reminder: infrastructure and deployment health are just as important as unit economics and LTV:CAC. For everyone trying Okiela

... Over the past few days I ve been shipping critical improvements to Okiela s payment flow via Polar (built on Stripe), so that early users can upgrade from Free Pro ($29/mo) smoothly and I can finally see real, healthy cashflow. The backend and Polar integration are stable, but since Feb 27 (VN time) several frontend deploys to Vercel have failed. That means a lot of UX and billing fixes are merged in code, but not yet live ... ... technical founder, this is a humbling reminder: infrastructure and deployment health are just as important as unit economics and LTV:CAC. For everyone trying Okiela

... Quick honest recap from Okiela s solo founder after going live: Infra held up well: Supabase + Vercel handled close to 20K requests with zero 5xx or DB issues. Launch week saw 192 visitors (mainly Vietnam + US), exploring homepage dashboard login/signup about/contact. Testimonial videos were loaded 5K+ times people actually watched them. At least two real users tried multiple times to upgrade to a paid plan. Every checkout failed because I misconfigured the billing integration. Revenue for day one was exactly ... ... paper, Okiela