So what New With 17track.net?
We’re interviewingSophie Wu, the founder and owner of the 17TRACK website. The website, a leader in its field serving millions of sellers and buyers around the world daily, is about to be remade and have a new version released.
1.Please tell us about yourself, Sophie.?
Hi, Everyone, this is Sophie, I'm Chinese, I was majoring in foreign affair in college and when I graduated, i joined into foreign trading company and a few years later, eCommerce business suddenly picked up and became the hottest~ What's when we start to make an idea of creating the site.
2.How did you come up with the idea of creating this website?
Well, to be honest, 17TRACK was built by myself, but a guy who's behind this, I'm the one who's promoting it. Mr. D that's the guy who built this site all by himself on 2011 with basic tracking but no other features at all. I recommended this site to a friend who sells on Ebay and Amazon and she introduced to her customers and bomb, bomb... the traffic was coming like crazy...
3.What was the creation process like, and what challenges did you face?
As last topic, tracking in need by that time, people were clueless where to track how to track an international online purchased parcel ID! They don't know anything about carriers, shipping type... the official website of the carrier is barely adequate to track any parcels, that's how we solved all these problem with Mr. D‘s advanced computer skills.
4.How many users does the website currently have? About how many packages get searched daily?
We have 4-5 million new ip towards our website www.17track.net and about 400K-500K numbers were searched on a daily basis.
5.What’s in store for the new website version? (bullet points)
I'm gonna say, we won't publish any new version until we are 100% sure this new one is gonna top the last version! Give our user the most convenient, accurate and fast tracking experiences than ever.
6.Serving millions of sellers and buyers for free, what’s the business roadmap for the website?
Haha, google is also a free for use site! We are a simple tool right now, the more we develop, the fun we get, we've already planned to make membership and other pro-features. I think the more user, the more responsibilities. Financing will be the last thing we think about.
- Any other surprises planned?
Oh, yes, we have! Apps sync update with pc terminal, and auto-refresh, notification when status changes. Membership for merchants, and optimized features for buyers, and business type would be various.
