Context. Aquariumin is an aquascape e-commerce brand my friend and I started in 2021 across Shopee, Tokopedia, and TikTok Shop. No external funding, no operations hire, just a developer and a designer who wanted to understand commerce from the inside.
Approach. Treat the storefront as a system, not a hustle. Every recurring action gets a script, a sheet, or a tool. Every complaint gets traced back to a process, not a person.
Outcome. Over 200,000 sales at a 4.9 average rating across platforms, sub-3% damaged-goods rate, 3× ROI on an affiliate launch, and internal tooling that now runs at Trilogi too.
What I built. A custom inventory and order-routing layer across all four marketplaces, an internal substrate calculator, and a small dashboard that surfaces top SKUs, returns, and ad-spend efficiency in one view.
What I learned. The same instincts apply at a manufacturing company: data hygiene is a team sport, the dashboard is only useful if someone reads it, and the cleanest funnel is the one with the fewest manual steps.