Shopify-Amazon Bridge: $500,000/Year

Todd Trimakas tells the story of how he built ByteStand, a suite of apps for Shopify.

His first app: a bridge that “moves and maintains your inventory from Amazon to your Shopify or BigCommerce store.”

Todd got the idea for the app when trying to move his own Amazon business to Shopify several years ago…

I thought, “There has to be an automated way to do this.” But I searched and there was no way to automatically and intelligently pull this info from Amazon to the store.

So Todd taught himself to code and built an MVP 😎

Now, a few years later, the business is just him and 2 employees and they’re doing $500,000 a year in revenue with 50% annual growth.

The key takeaway for me here: don’t wait around for a great business idea.

Get started on something – anything, really – and you’ll inevitably run into painful problems that are crying out for a solution.

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