the project seems interesting
But it would be nice to see the team working on it. I mean some faces.
Hi! My name is Aliya, I'm one of Doft's founders and manage PR/Marketing. Please, take a look at our team here:
https://doft.com/startupEverything started 2 years ago (in October 2015) when I visited friends of mine in Chicago. They are a family business where a wife is the owner operator and a husband is the truck driver (you can see them featuring in our ICO promotion video). The idea of creating Doft came from such family needs. When you're a wife, a partner and a mother of a little baby - your days are hard! You have to work from 5 a.m. till late evening 6 days a week, make hundreds of calls a day to find loads (job) for your husband and at the same time you must take care of your little baby girl totally forgetting about your personal life! I felt so sorry about my friend's situation and I asked her - what if your hubby had a simple app on his phone that gives him load offers directly and you wouldn't have to call brokers and loadboards anymore? The answer was positive because my friend can finally get her time back, spend more time with her baby girl, go finally visit fitness/spa and feel herself beautiful and happy again...
When I came back from my trip I shared that info with my partners (now the other 2 founders of Doft - Dmitri & Sergey). They liked the idea of creating the on-demand truck shareing app which can help thousands of owner-operator families around the US!
We've been working together for 8 years already on our previous projects including online "yelp type" catalogue and e-ticketing system which we sold to the big european media company. We had our own money from that exit and we invested those funds into Doft, created our own software which is very unique, simple, user friendly and functional. Then we attracted investors, partners and advisors who are the real sharks in trucking industry with huge experrience and tremendous business portfolio including successul exits!
For now, after 2 years of hard work and full dedication to Doft, we proved our business model and have stable growth. Truckers all over the US want to get loaded faster and paid within 24 hours (they get it). The other side - shippers (especially small businesses) want to save money and time on shipping and be sure that their freight is safe. With Doft they get it as now Doft offers the full cycle of logistics service INCLUDING MOTOR CARRIER MONITORING, VETTING & SAFETY RECORDS!
You can also read my article in Entrepreneur magazine about how businesses can save money on ground shipping:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/aliya-salakhovaFinally, I'd like to say that Doftcoins will give us indisputable scaling advantage! We plan to go globally in the nearest future. If tomorrow we go to the Mexican, Canadian, Brazilian, Chinese, Indian, Russian, European markets - we won't have this local currency problems. Doftcoins do the job - time and costsaving, no banking fuss!
Feel free to contact me if you have questions. I'll be glad to answer them all.
Have a great week!