> Pinterest is essentially bookmarks for shopping except they're trying to capitalize on the marketplace part too: https://about.pinterest.com/en/shopping-pint

> Pinterest is essentially bookmarks for shopping except they're trying to capitalize on the marketplace part too: https://about.pinterest.com/en/shopping-pinterest https://about.pinterest.com/en/shopping-pinterest > Certain Instagram networks are all about products ditto: http://blog.business.instagram.com/post/152598788716/shopping-coming-to-instagram http://blog.business.instagram.com/post/152598788716/shoppin... > former Etsy sellers who, once they achieved traction with their products, decided to build their brands on their own and not compete toe-to-toe with copycat sellers yeah, this is etsy's real problem - they do a bad job of keeping top sellers on the platform. i haven't seen much attrition because of copycats, but more that etsy is just a really bad platform for managing a big shop. the fact that your sellers went to shopify is, to me, just evidence of that.