Hi, I'm Kristin. I make corsages and boutonnières for school formals, from home in Melbourne. The business is called Coosage. Picklo is the system I built to run it.
I spent years in corporate. Strategy, transformation, the usual. Somewhere along the way I realised I was a frustrated entrepreneur. I like running my own thing. So I started Coosage to see what would happen.
I love flowers, and I had a built-in audience through my high school kids. Word of mouth carried it through 250+ orders.
In the early days I sold on Etsy. Local pickup wasn't really a thing on there, so I had to charge one cent for delivery as a workaround. Customers would put their preferred pickup time in the comments. I'd reply on my phone between meetings, confirming the time worked. After they picked up, I'd send another email to close the order out. The transaction was finished, but Etsy didn't know that.
It worked. It just didn't make sense.
So I built my own. Coosage runs on it now. Customers tap a link, choose what they want and a pickup time, pay, and get a confirmation. The day before, they get a reminder. I get a clean list of what to make tomorrow. No more replying on my phone between meetings.
That's the system that became Picklo.
Coosage gave me something I didn't realise I needed.
I've lost jobs suddenly, more than once. Each time, Coosage was still there. People still wanted corsages. There was still making to do. It gave me a reason to get up, customers who counted on me, and a week with shape.
I think a lot of people are going to need that. Work is shifting, and AI is changing white-collar jobs in ways most of us are still pretending aren't real. The people I see coping best are the ones who already have something of their own running quietly on the side.
That's why Picklo. So anyone with a skill can start their own thing now, before they need it.
No credit card required.