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ShopLocket Raises $1M to Lead the Emerging Simple Selling Market
- purephase 14y agoInteresting. 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.
- smalter 14y agoAwesome, 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 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3668469). It's fantastic to see them not only soldiering on, but thriving.
- dess_e 14y agoKudos to the ShopLocket team!
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- wesbos 14y agoRight on, really excited for these guys :)
- aeden 14y agoCould someone provide some sort of a definition for the term "Simple Selling Market"? Is this essentially a competitor to Shopify?
- showerst 14y agoSort 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 14y agoI'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/ https://gumroad.com/ would be their closest competitor at the moment.
- heatherpayne 14y agoIf you'd like to know more about the ShopLocket story, they launched a timeline today, too - check it out: http://timeline.shoplocket.com http://timeline.shoplocket.com (I'm on slide 3)
- rada 14y agoMy favorite: http://timeline.shoplocket.com/#19 http://timeline.shoplocket.com/#19 ShopLocket showcase, powered by ShopLocket critics. Brilliant.
- maxcameron 14y agoAnother awesome Toronto startup making noise. They're making Extreme Startups look pretty good right now.
- ojiikun 14y agoAm 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?