Congratulations all who survived this 420! It was a lot over here! Good, but a lot. For some reason, it seemed more disconnected and quiet than in years past. At least in my state, but its always an adventure here. We have no license cap and businesses tend to close quickly which is unfortunate. This ties into things, I promise.
A little about me, I have been in this industry for nearly a decade focusing on production/manufacturing. I have set up numerous kitchens, canning lines, production lines and have created around 30 products that are currently in retail production in a couple states. In doing this, I learned how insanely difficult, expensive, and fractured support tools are, for us especially. A few years ago, I shifted focus to an advertising/tech company to assist with building into more and its finally here.... we officially left beta a little over a month ago and have been slowly on-boarding businesses/brands to our new website. Dispopages started as a local cannabis culture and coupon magazine/online portal to provide more value to medical patients before rec in our state. It has morphed into so much more.
We have worked really hard to custom code and build out our site to centralize everything someone operating in this space would need for success. Free public facing directory profile, unlimited deal posting, full business suite, wholesale integration, event calendar, direct messaging, analytics, blog and digital magazines creation, and a cannabis social media platform for more consumer engagement. This week we are launching our "dispo-chat" feature that invites consumers to ask cannabis related questions. This will tie into our virtual budtender feature that businesses can train on their products, inventory, and company lore to better assist and attract new consumers. There's more.... but for brevity....
I am pretty disgusted when my friends and clients continually tell me about the thousands they spend with no return for basic services. There is a kind of exodus happening in my community away from one major company in particular. I, personally, feel that every business deserves the ability to advertise, promote their hard work, and save money while doing so. People see dollar signs when they think cannabis, which is a nice compliment, but further than the truth for many. I cannot justify hustling my community for a come up ever so we are letting companies try for free/heavily discounted and keeping pricing insanely accessible forever moving forward.
I really believe in this and am ready to share it with the world. Any thoughts, questions, feedback, etc. is so appreciated because it was built for you. My partner and I worked on this solo for about 8 months, not leaving the house, not seeing friends or family, doing literally nothing but this until 3am every day. There's over 2m lines of code... We are based in NM so to see the growing potential, change your location as everything is geolocated for compliance reasons. I am beginning to focus on other states and am excited to hopefully help unite the global community in a different way.
Thank you guys for taking the time to read this massive text wall. Not trying to be spammy or self promote, just really excited to be almost done with this project and hoping it helps others too. I really want cannabis and supporting businesses to thrive!
Published: 2026-04-21T19:08:19+00:00
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/weedbiz/comments/1srxhjr/made_a_new_business_platform_for_the_community/
