YesSME

YesSME is the product I work on as a Software Engineer at Yes Bangladesh. It gives small and medium businesses in Bangladesh one system for the things they otherwise run in separate tools: a point of sale, accounting, and an eCommerce storefront.

The product is easiest to understand as one core and three attachments. The core is a Laravel application that owns the business data and the POS, Accounting and eCommerce modules. Around it sit a crawler that fills the catalogue, an Android app that puts the storefront on a phone, and a storefront theme that defines how a shop looks to its customers.

The Laravel core is the system of record. Each supporting piece is a separate codebase with one narrow connection to it, so they can be built and released on their own schedules.

The crawler powers the “Fetch from URL” feature on the product-creation page in the admin panel. A shop owner pastes a product URL; the crawler loads the page in a real browser through Playwright, extracts the product data, and sends it to the Laravel backend over a REST API so the product is created automatically instead of typed in by hand.

• The crawler works across multiple e-commerce sites, including anti-bot-hardened catalogues such as Alibaba — the reason it drives a full browser rather than making plain HTTP requests.
• The Android app is a Kotlin WebView wrapper: a thin native shell around the YesSME storefront, so the storefront is maintained once and the app follows it.
• NEO DHAKA is a 43-page storefront theme for Gen-Z streetwear fashion: home, shop, product, cart, checkout, auth, blog and legal pages, plus 15 customer-dashboard pages, with a light/dark theme toggle.
• The theme encodes Bangladesh-specific business rules: prices in BDT, separate delivery rates for inside and outside Dhaka, and 15% VAT.
• The theme’s pages are marked up with @partial markers, so shared fragments are already identified and the static pages can later convert cleanly into Laravel Blade views inside the core.

• The platform is live at sme.yesbangladesh.net.
• The crawler runs as its own service, separate from the Laravel application, and reaches it only through the REST API.
• The Android app is production-ready: release signing is set up and R8 is enabled for the release build.
• The NEO DHAKA theme is a static build today; the @partial structure is what makes the move into Blade a conversion rather than a rewrite.