One person builds this.

Zack

I built Velantia myself: the site, the checks it runs, the report you get back.

A month into my first business, I was sitting in my room looking at a dashboard with six sales on it. I'd put somewhere between a few hundred and a thousand dollars into a clothing brand selling graphic tees, and the problem was never the shirts. Almost nobody had seen them.

I wasn't trying to fix it yet. I was trying to work out what everyone else was doing right. So I started asking ChatGPT and Perplexity about clothing brands selling graphic tees, and what surprised me was that it wasn't always the biggest names that came back. That stuck with me. If getting recommended wasn't simply a matter of being the biggest, then it was something you could influence, and I had no idea how.

That's what started it. I tried tool after tool, and every one of them was built for a marketing team rather than for someone running a store on their own. I tried doing the SEO myself, guessing at keywords, changing things and hoping. It was a drop in a bucket with a hole in it. I had no direction, and no way to tell whether anything I did made any difference.

What made me build something was realising it wasn't only my problem. A lot of my friends run their own businesses, and every one of us was stuck in the same place: we knew we were invisible, we didn't know why, and every tool that promised to explain it was too complicated or too expensive to be worth the time. In the end I shut the clothing brand down rather than keep spending money on a store nobody could find, and started building this instead.

So Velantia is built for us: people who know they don't know everything, can't afford an SEO firm, and don't have a week to spend learning a dashboard. It tells you where you stand and what to do about it, in words you don't need a marketing degree to read.

I'm 16, which you'd probably rather hear from me than find out later. I don't think it counts for much either way: if a product works and it's built for the person using it, the age of whoever made it is beside the point.

What I'd rather be judged on is this. Right now I answer the emails, and I answer the phone. That's deliberate. It's how I find out what's actually wrong with the product. The phone probably won't last forever. The emails will.