Two Brothers Turned a Last-Chance Email Into a Noida Digital Marketing Agency and QR Menu Product
After quitting their jobs and nearly running out of money, two brothers in India landed a first client from New Zealand, grew WeCodeFuture into a 50-person digital marketing agency, and launched a QR code menu product adopted by over 1,000 restaurants.
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Business snapshot
- Business model
- Agency or productized service
- Started
- Oct 2019
- Team
- 2 founders
- Based in
- Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Restaurants on QR menu
- 1,000+
- First-month QR subscribers
- 300+
- Startups served
- around 2000
- Big chains served
- 500
- Employees
- 50+
Tools
- Laravel
- Bootstrap
- PHP
- WordPress
- MailChimp
- Buffer
- SEMrush
- Buzzsumo
- Skype
Founder-reported figures, not independently verified.
Who built it, and what they built
WeCodeFuture is a private digital marketing company headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was started in October 2019 by two brothers, Mohd. Aaquib Shakeel and Mohd. Aadil Shakeel, under the motto of growing together with their clients.
Before founding the company, both brothers worked with small startups in Pune, Maharashtra, where they developed a strong view that digital marketing would become essential for businesses in the years ahead.
The agency positions itself around affordability, aiming to make digital marketing services reachable for small startups as well as larger chain companies through budget-friendly plans.
Where the idea came from
Coming from a middle-class background, the brothers wanted to challenge the belief that big success is reserved for people who already have money and resources. In July 2019, they both resigned from their jobs to pursue the business full time, knowing they would face financial strain, discouragement from people around them, and the lack of any office or support network.
The early months were brutal. They asked friends for help and got none, worked for a month without landing a single project, and after nearly two months of effort began applying for jobs again because they had no income at all.
The turning point arrived while they were heading home: one brother opened an email from a startup in New Zealand interested in digital marketing and eCommerce development. That contract became their first project and, in their telling, the hope that kept the company alive. More projects followed while they delivered that first one.
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