Really Simple Store

How I Launched And Monetized A Really Simple App

June 3rd, 2019
Drew Thomas
$100
revenue/mo
1
Founders
0
Employees
Really Simple Store
from Austin, Texas, USA
started January 2019
$100
revenue/mo
1
Founders
0
Employees
market size
$2.72T
avg revenue (monthly)
$484K
starting costs
$19.4K
gross margin
83%
time to build
300 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
subscription
best tools
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time investment
Full time
pros & cons
34 Pros & Cons
tips
17 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

I’m Drew Thomas, and I made Really Simple Store. I’m still making it. Really Simple Store is the ecommerce platform for people who “simply have something to sell,” and it takes less than ten minutes from signup to live selling.

I launched to the public quietly in January 2019, but I got most of my signups from a Product Hunt launch in April. I’m currently generating less than $100 per month, but there’s a lot in the pipeline that I hope to capitalize on.

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What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

I originally created Really Simple Store around five years ago. At that time, it was an ecommerce API- a way to add ecommerce to existing websites, no matter what platform they were built on.

I was running a digital agency at the time,...

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