Davao Diaries: March 27, 2026

Shubhrendu Khoche • March 27, 2026

A child carrying a 5-gallon water dispenser bottle.

1. With gasolene prices increasing faster than what gas station electronics displays can handle, yufin built a multi-hop delivery route optimizer this week for its wholesaler and distributor partners to reduce their delivery costs and deliver to more small business owners faster.

2. Our anchor wholesaler opened their sixth branch location to yufin this month and let us be the only external party allowed to put up yufin offline to online nudges right at the entry and exit of their branch.

3. Why is our team onboarding an electronics retail store and their front-liner sales staff? Cannot tell you yet. Hint: it is related to yuMall.

4. To those who ask me about current pain points of small merchants that make them use yuOrder, I point to this photo. Try lifting that can of drinking water from the wholesaler location a mile away to your store. Bottled water is amongst the league table chart topper for small merchants ordering their weekly supplies on their yufin mobile application.

5. Proud to let small business owners and our sales ambassadors taste the power of AI/ML without having to get bogged down by least mean square and matrix multiplications.