Ride the upward trend of handmade goods & create a handmade product marketplace like Etsy. Create your marketplace with WordPress & Dokan.| Dokan
In 2008, Milda Mitkute was moving house in Lithuania and wanted to give away some clothes. So Justas Janauskas built a website to distribute clothes to friends, and Vinted was founded. Four years later a mobile app was launched which allows users to buy, sell or swap clothing and communicate on forums. The company quickly expanded into Germany and is now available in 20 countries, with plans to reach Finland later in 2023. It now has more than 1200 employees headed by CEO Thomas Plantenga. Or...| Business of Apps
Ecommerce marketplace app Shopee started life out as a customer-to-customer marketplace, in the same vein as eBay, but over the past few years has remodelled itself as a b2c marketplace. That switch to a b2c hybrid model has netted Shopee a lot of customers, especially in the Southeast Asia region where it is the most popular ecommerce platform by some margin. It also offers services in East Asia and Latin America. Shopee has managed to surpass Amazon and other ecommerce marketplaces in this ...| Business of Apps
Shein is, by some measures, the largest online only fashion company, which may be a surprise to those who have never heard of the app. Originally a portal to buy wedding dresses, Shein branched out into general womenswear in the early 2010s and to all types of fashion by the mid-2010s, although the vast majority of its customers are still women. It is now the leader of a new generation of fast fashion that puts Zara and H&M to shame, producing thousands of new items to match the current trend...| Business of Apps
In 2015, IIT Delhi graduates Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal launched a fashion app startup called Fashnear, featuring on-demand delivery from local shops. Take-up was slow, and the founders resorted to picketing potential buyers outside of shops. The startup failed, but the following year Aatrey and Barnwal revived the platform and renamed it Meesho. Meesho has an emphasis on social media use, particularly Facebook and WhatsApp. The company realised that small retailers were already using t...| Business of Apps
Depop is a social ecommerce website that is primarily used by people selling worn, vintage or repurposed clothing. It has built out a loyal customer-base of 18 to 25 year olds in the UK and US. Launched in Italian startup incubator H-farm by Simon Beckerman, Depop became successful through word of mouth. Its first break was in the UK in the late-2010s, with vintage clothing shops already seeing more foot traffic than at any point in the past. Depop designed its app to be an Instagram for shop...| Business of Apps
Chinese discount ecommerce app Temu has taken the United States and United Kingdom by storm, as the newest Chinese-based challenger aiming to saturate the market with products at under half the price of similar items on Amazon and other ecommerce stores. Temu, which is owned by Chinese ecommerce giant Pinduoduo, launched in the US in 2022 and in select European countries in 2023, offering a megastore of almost every conceivable item at a fraction of the cost. Like Wish and other discount stor...| Business of Apps
Explore the factors influencing the Etsy app development cost and understand the features and steps to build one in this detailed blog.| Appinventiv
Learn how to start your Etsy shop today with this step-by-step guide—packed with examples, best practices, and tools you need to jump-start your success.| AWeber