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Payroll for Sri Lankan SMEs: payruns, EPF, ETF and APIT handled, files generated. Leads arrived organically.

ClientOwn product
ProductHumanised HR & Payroll
Where and whenSri Lanka · 2021 to 2026
PlatformWeb app
The screen, annotated by hand · scroll
Payroll home with active payruns
  1. mid-cycle runsa bonus or a correction does not wait for month end
  2. two ways intype it or upload a CSV; a small firm starts with one and grows into the other
  3. last month is the starting pointpayroll mostly repeats, so every completed run can be repeated

The story, in the order I work

Given · why

What was there

Monthly and mid-cycle payruns, manual or by CSV import with error and warning states, per-employee earnings and deductions, statutory compliance, and one-click bank, EPF/ETF and payslip files. Grown on organic search and AI answers, no paid acquisition. Exited August 2026.

Planted · what I owned

What I took on

Placeholder until confirmed.

Shipped

What went out

Released through 2026 as a web app.

Payruns Salary information CSV import Warnings & errors Reports & files People · leave · loans Home dashboard Payslips & bank files Employee app

Yields

11Accountancy firms, and countless SMEs
$0Paid acquisition
3Statutory schemes handled: EPF, ETF, APIT
What I'd do differently

The honest paragraph.

Five years on your own product teaches one thing above the rest: you have to choose where the money goes. Revenue and break-even mean everything, because nobody is coming to fund the next quarter. Eleven accountancy firms and countless SMEs run payroll on it with no paid acquisition, and every feature on the roadmap had to earn its place against that.

Revenue and break-even mean everything. Spend accordingly.
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