iTechSIM

Overview

A travel-eSIM platform I co-founded with an Australian team and built myself — web, iOS and Android, payments, and automated eSIM delivery. So far: $4.5K+ in sales and 350+ eSIMs for trips to 22+ countries.

iTechSIM sells prepaid travel data for 50+ destinations. A traveller picks a country, pays, and gets a QR code within seconds — online the moment they land. I co-founded it with an Australian team and build the entire product myself: the web storefront, the iOS and Android apps, checkout, fulfilment, and the operations tooling behind it. So far it has delivered 350+ eSIMs for trips to 22+ countries, with $4.5K+ in sales.

The heart of it is a commerce pipeline. A nightly sync pulls the wholesale eSIM feed into Supabase with rule-based retail pricing. Stripe Checkout — Payment Element, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, promo codes — and an independent PayPal rail handle the money. A webhook-driven fulfilment flow provisions each eSIM with the supplier and delivers the QR, with operator alerts on failure and refunds wired to both payment providers.

Around the money path: magic-link auth with a usage dashboard, verified-buyer reviews with pre-publish moderation, an admin panel for pricing rules, orders and refunds, transactional email for delivery, usage alerts and review invites, consent-gated analytics via Google Consent Mode v2, Sentry error tracking, and a full staging environment mirroring production.

The way it gets built is half the story: an AI-native workflow where I design in Claude and implement in Claude Code, shipping one feature at a time. A working MVP went live in a week; a marketing-ready feature set followed within three. Beyond the code, I shape the roadmap, the marketing, and the plan to grow it together with the founding team.

Key contributions

1. 01Co-founded the venture and shaped product direction, marketing, and launch with the founding team
2. 02Reached $4.5K+ in sales and 350+ eSIMs delivered for trips to 22+ countries
3. 03Built the whole product solo: Next.js App Router storefront, Supabase data layer, staging + production environments on Vercel
4. 04Shipped companion iOS and Android apps in Flutter, live on the App Store and Google Play
5. 05Payments on two rails: Stripe Checkout (Payment Element, Apple Pay / Google Pay, Link, promo codes) and PayPal Orders v2 — signature-verified webhooks and automated refunds on both
6. 06Automated the supply chain: nightly wholesale catalogue sync, margin-based pricing rules, post-payment provisioning with webhook reconciliation
7. 07Transactional email pipeline: instant QR delivery, install nudges, usage alerts, review invites
8. 08Verified-buyer reviews with moderation queue and aggregate-rating JSON-LD for SEO
9. 09Admin panel: order search, refunds, pricing rules, catalogue sync, review moderation
10. 10Privacy by default: analytics stay off until consent, via Google Consent Mode v2

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