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“It seemed like a tough proposition. I would need thousands of merchants paying at least $20/month to create a successful business. I didn’t think it would be p
by aytekin 8y ago
“It seemed like a tough proposition. I would need thousands of merchants paying at least $20/month to create a successful business. I didn’t think it would be possible, until I came across the Bold Commerce story. This four person team in Winnipeg, Manitoba, had almost the same story as us. “Merchants first, identified gaps in the app store, and deciding to build apps on Shopify. Bold Commerce now employs almost 300 people, with no outside funding to date, and with their growth solely on the Shopify platform. This case study was enough to convince us to take the leap, I wanted us to be like Bold.”
Online Payments space is big. A company built on Shopify platform just for Shopify users with 300 employees!
Even in my company (JotForm - a form builder) payment integrations is just one of our minor features and we process over 500M/year on payment forms people create.
- ahmiq87 8y agoOP here. Very cool. Yes Payments space is huge. I'm looking forward to the future of payments for sure. Will checkout JotForm, congrats on your success brother.
- jdpedrie 8y agoOh man, JotForm is O.G. SAAS for me. I used to use it all the time back around 2011. Thanks for making my work back then so much less tedious!
- collinmanderson 8y agoYes, I remember comparing JotForm vs WuFoo back in 2008, back when the norm for forms on small websites was custom server-side code.
- tmp0123 8y agoBold Commerce has had some impressive growth but it’s worth noting that they are intentionally inflating that number as much as possible in hopes of a quick IPO. They’re notorious in my city for bringing the wages of developers down, I’ve been told as low as 27K USD salary. Though that shouldn’t detract from their success, clearly they’re doing something right.