ShopLocket Raises $1M to Lead the Emerging Simple Selling Market

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29 points·katherinehague··11 comments

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)

My favorite:

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

ShopLocket showcase, powered by ShopLocket critics. Brilliant.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Right on, really excited for these guys :)

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

Kudos to the ShopLocket team!

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