Let s be brutally honest for a second: Everyone hates forms.

As product builders, we spend countless hours obsessing over UI/UX, tweaking dropdowns, optimizing multi-step wizards, and adding helpful tooltips. But the reality in the B2B world especially for sales reps and field workers is that data entry is universally despised. No matter how "beautiful" your CRM interface is, your users will still take notes in their native notes app or send themselves a Slack message, only to begrudgingly do batch data entry at the end of the month (often faking half of it just to get management off their backs).

For a long time, the industry's answer to this was just better UI. Recently, the trend is slapping an LLM chatbot wrapper on top of a legacy system. But the underlying architecture is still strictly form-driven. The AI is just a polite receptionist for a rigid database.

While building our next-gen platform, we realized that to truly fix this, we had to stop fighting human nature. We decided to kill the form entirely.

I ve been posting less lately.
Not because I lost momentum, but because I wanted to give more of my time and attention to Okiela.
Over the past few weeks, I ve been going back into the product, re-checking small details, re-running tests, and repeating the experience from the perspective of a real user. I kept asking myself a simple question: if I were a Shopify merchant seeing this for the first time, what would still feel unclear, frustrating, or not valuable enough yet?
I want Okiela to be more polished, more useful, and more grounded in real business decisions before I submit and list it on the Shopify App Store. My goal is to bring it closer to Shopify store owners and agency teams who are trying to understand what their business is actually making, not just what the dashboard says.
Okiela is still early. It s still young. And I m building it as a solo non-code founder from Vietnam with an FP&A / finance background, so I know it won t be perfect on day one. But I care deeply about making it genuinely useful for people who are not finance experts and still need a fast, simple way to see true profit by SKU, order, and channel.
I ve also recorded a short screen demo of the flow: uploading Shopify order data and getting to real true profit much faster, assuming the relevant cost inputs are there. (Youtube link: https://youtu.be/UZr91L8TPq4)
If you work with Shopify brands, agencies, or e-commerce teams, I d truly appreciate your honest feedback. Sharp feedback is welcome. That s how Okiela gets better.
And if you know someone dealing with this exact pain, I d be grateful if you shared Okiela with them.
Thanks for being here <3
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