Hi Product Hunt 👋 I’m Satheeshkumar, founder of ATOFON. My co-founder and I come from the construction-material trading business, and we built ATOFON around a problem we experienced ourselves. Construction-material buying is still highly fragmented. Buyers often have to contact multiple sellers individually, ask for prices, compare delivery terms and negotiate separately. At the same time, many capable local sellers have limited digital reach. We initially asked ourselves whether another conventional e-commerce marketplace was really the answer. We concluded that it wasn’t. Construction materials are different. Prices can change, delivery distance matters, quantities vary, and buyers often need quotations rather than a fixed catalogue price. So we built ATOFON around an RFQ-first model: Request → multiple quotations → compare → choose → pay → delivery → inspect & accept. We also made some deliberate product choices. Buyers and sellers remain anonymous during the quotation stage, sellers compete on their actual offer, and ATOFON does not need to become the construction-material trader itself. Our aim is to help existing offline sellers participate digitally rather than replace them. We’re still learning and improving the marketplace, and I’d particularly value feedback from the Product Hunt community on the RFQ experience, marketplace design and how we can make this model simpler for both buyers and sellers. Thanks for checking out ATOFON.

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Get competitive quotes for construction materials

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