ByteStand Update: How We Grew 25% Over Last Year

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Todd Trimakas

Founder, ByteStand

$65K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

ByteStand

bytestand.com

from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

started January 2016

$65,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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Want more updates on ByteStand? Check out these stories:

1. How I Taught Myself How To Code And Built My Own Business (2019) ➜

2. How We've Grow Our Subscription Business By 50% In The Last Year (2020) ➜

This is a follow up story for ByteStand. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published about 6 years ago, check it out here.

Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

What up! I’m Todd Trimakas founder, head developer, and ringmaster of all that is ByteStand.

ByteStand is three Shopify apps in the Shopify App Store, and another in the oven. We specialize in taming the Amazon inventory and fulfillment beast. Amazon is this double-edged sword of democratized worldwide fulfillment for next to nothing, paired with a complete and total disdain for any sellers with revenue under $100 million. They are empowering and somehow demeaning all at the same time.

In a sentence that even Mom would understand, we help Shopify sellers create, and maintain their product catalog as well ship these same products to anyone covered by an Amazon warehouse around the world. We’ve been able to expand globally along with Amazon and Shopify to now count ourselves lucky with customers on every continent except Africa. This technological journey is being shepherded by me, a guy who just a couple of years ago didn’t know Ruby on Rails from a diamond in the rough.

Five years ago I was a seller on Amazon myself, selling overstock items from Macy’s, and realized I was in a losing battle. Selling commodity...

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