ShopLocket Raises $1M to Lead the Emerging Simple Selling Market (betakit.com)

29 points by katherinehague 13y ago ↗ HN

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Interesting. Just met them at the Toronto Rails Pub Night a few weeks ago.

Good for them! Had a good conversation about how much Paypal fraud prevention sucks.

Awesome, best of luck to the ShopLocket team! I remember their post on HN awhile back about not getting into YC (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3668469). It's fantastic to see them not only soldiering on, but thriving.

dess_e 13y ago ↗

Kudos to the ShopLocket team!

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wesbos 13y ago ↗

Right on, really excited for these guys :)

aeden 13y ago ↗

Could someone provide some sort of a definition for the term "Simple Selling Market"? Is this essentially a competitor to Shopify?

showerst 13y ago ↗

Sort of, but I think that it's actually more like competition for Craigslist/Ebay.

I think the idea is to grab people who aren't at the Shopify level of sophistication yet.

maxcameron 13y ago ↗

I'd say a simple definition of the "simple selling market" could be "sell online without opening an online store." I'd say https://gumroad.com/ would be their closest competitor at the moment.

heatherpayne 13y ago ↗

If you'd like to know more about the ShopLocket story, they launched a timeline today, too - check it out: http://timeline.shoplocket.com

(I'm on slide 3)

rada 13y ago ↗

My favorite:

http://timeline.shoplocket.com/#19

ShopLocket showcase, powered by ShopLocket critics. Brilliant.

maxcameron 13y ago ↗

Another awesome Toronto startup making noise. They're making Extreme Startups look pretty good right now.

ojiikun 13y ago ↗

Am I the only one deeply annoyed that the article never even once mentions what the hell it is that ShopLocket does, how they make money, or to what ends they want to grow?