Hey friends, Elias here ex-Alibaba product guy turned caffeinated founder.

I ve spent the last 11 months turning the same AI stack we used to move billions at Alibaba into a pocket-sized growth engine for the rest of us.

Hi everyone,

Elias Sun here thrilled to jump into this amazing community!

Brand new here, trying to figure out how product hunt works. I ve read some threads, browsed some launches, and scheduled a launch myself. I am not tech savvy at all, and everyone in here is so smart! So bear with me :) I come from a very small town in the Western US. I am a mom of 4 and a bartender/entrepreneur. I have a terrible habit of chasing business opportunities. Not proud of it, but I am a free spirit who wants all the freedom and I LOVE leading a team in whatever I do. You would think I m a A type personality but I m the furthest from it. So heres to hoping my new adventure provides all the freedom

My journey in startups began 10 years ago, and I've launched 18 startups, most of which failed. Briefly on why they failed:
1. Contract Online my first startup in 2015, which was supposed to be an online service for remote signing of contracts for any transactions between individuals. A kind of analogue of a secure transaction. For this startup, I even managed to attract a business angel who invested $16,500.

Reason for failure: I had two lawyers on my team who discovered in the process that the legal framework at the time could not provide reliable grounds for protecting our users in remote transactions. The contracts would not have been considered legally signed.
2. Natural Products In 2015-2018, I became very passionate about healthy eating, but in the process, I discovered that products in all chain stores are full of chemicals, and stores with truly natural products are inaccessible to the majority. Hence, the idea emerged to create my own online platform where you could order natural products directly from farmers at affordable prices.

Reason for failure: For several years, I tried to launch this project, even trained as a baker of natural bread and tried to create my own farm, but in the process, I found that few people are willing to pay for truly natural products, even if these products were only 20-30% more expensive than market prices, and not 2-3 times more, as in premium stores. Hence, the market was so small that all my attempts were doomed.