A Discussion on the Experience of Overseas Software Development

Today I received a consultation from an overseas client who wants to create a multi merchant shopping app for use in France. It requires functions such as coupons, group buying, flash sales, food delivery, and cash withdrawal.

From the above description, it can be seen that the business logic described by the user is very similar to our domestic multi merchant mall, but the difference is that the target audience is different. Our company has developed multiple apps and other software for foreign countries. From the business background of these software, we can see that many domestic software models can run well abroad, but the popularity of this type of software is still relatively low in many countries and regions abroad. If there is a market gap and real business needs, we can develop our business through software.

When it comes to the differences between domestic and foreign software, foreign platforms such as Instagram, threads, Telegram, and Facebook are very similar to domestic platforms like Xiaohongshu, WeChat, and Weibo. It can be said that the main demands of domestic and foreign platforms are not significantly different. This also gives us great inspiration that domestic software is likely to be successful abroad. For example, our domestic apps SHEIN, Temu, Tiktok, etc. rank among the top in terms of app downloads in many overseas countries.

We have relevant experience in overseas e-commerce, overseas used cars, overseas social networking, overseas pet forums, overseas ride hailing and other software. We also welcome clients with overseas software development needs to provide their business usage scenarios and what goals they want to achieve through the software? In our opinion, requirement research and analysis in the early stage of software development are very important. For example, when developing an overseas software for multiple merchants, we need to consider differences in payment methods, logistics interfaces, map interfaces, return and exchange processes, and exchange rates across different regions.

We hope to use our experience in software development abroad to help more businesses or entrepreneurs generate value for their projects with our software.