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“We went from launch to seven figures in under a year - with zero ad spend.”

How order flow trading platform Deepcharts sold globally from day one – without the tax headache. - By Fabio Valentini and Andrea Cimitan, Co-Founders, Deepcharts

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7 figures

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Zero

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Global

from day one

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Finance looks complicated. It doesn’t have to be. Most people look at a trading screen and decide it isn’t for them. Too many numbers, too many charts. They think they need a PhD to understand it. We built Deepcharts to close that gap, giving retail traders institutional-level order flow tools in an interface that makes complex information easier to understand. We made the learning free too: Tutorials, walkthroughs, and Fabio, our co-founder and a trader himself, working in front of the charts.

 Reputation is king. Most online finance content comes from people who have no idea what they’re talking about. They have a camera, a rented Lamborghini, and promise to make you rich. We did something different. Instead of bombarding people with ads telling them why they should trust us, we created content that showed we understood their problems. Our message was honest: Finance is hard. It’s risky. Even if you work day and night, there’s no guarantee you’ll make money. We give you the best tools we can, but the battle is yours.

One of our videos passed four million views. To buy that kind of reach in finance, you’d spend hundreds of thousands on ads. We went from launch to seven figures in a few months – with zero ad spend. We keep scaling by clipping our long videos into short-form highlights, with AI helping our editors produce more, not replacing them.

When you’re growing globally, and fast, you can’t do everything yourself. That’s why we chose Paddle. If we had to spend our time on VAT filings, scaling worldwide would have been impossible. We’d have launched in Italy, maybe Germany next, one country at a time. Instead, we sold worldwide from day one.

We haven’t offered a standard monthly software subscription. Our product takes time to learn, so we focused on customers willing to commit for longer and invest the time to understand the product. We also priced slightly above the industry average. We didn’t want a price war. We wanted customers who understood the value of what we were building.

 Choosing a Merchant of Record wasn't a decision we took lightly. We did our due diligence, checking how the invoicing worked and going through the numbers. Because a provider offering a better rate means very little if you later run into VAT or compliance problems that cost far more. As our Merchant of Record, Paddle is the legal seller of our software. So, if there’s a problem with a calculation, Paddle is the one that takes responsibility. For me, that’s a sort of insurance against errors as well as removing the operational headache. 

VAT is like health. You don’t think about it until you’re sick, and then it’s the only problem you have. With Paddle as our Merchant of Record, we knew that side of the operation was being handled by a partner we could trust."

Andrea Cimitan, Co-Founder, Deepcharts

Paddle gives us data we can act on. We can see metrics market by market, including churn and growth. I recently showed the team that Germany is taking off. But the bigger advantage is that when we have a question, there’s a person on the other end of the line. How can we increase customer lifetime value? How should we activate subscriptions? What should we monitor as the model changes? All of these questions go to our customer success manager. We value that human relationship because it’s how we operate too. 

 Now it’s time to start the engine. Until now, we’ve basically been pushing the car with our hands. We wanted to see how far we could take Deepcharts organically before putting serious money into acquisition. Paid advertising is next, alongside monthly subscriptions, a stronger CRM, and a bigger focus on retention.

 Marketing is gasoline – not the fire. If the fire is just a few leaves, it’ll die however much gasoline you pour on it. You need the right foundations first. For us, that means putting more work into the user interface, understanding what customers actually need, and building the tech backwards from that experience.

2026 was our test. 2027 is when we push.

Deepcharts chose Paddle as its Merchant of Record. Book a demo to see what Paddle could do for you.

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