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Bootstrap Web: Ecommerce

At last Monday's Bootstrap Web meeting, Miles Sims of Innertee and Kyle Johnson of Bumperactive talked about their ecommerce companies. Both are totally bootstrapped operations. Innertee has just launched its new site, where artists can submit design elements that purchasers can incorporate in mixed design for t-shirts that are then printed through a high quality silkscreen process. The artists get a commission. The site hasn't quite launched yet, but they've worked out production and fulfillment operating as Red Army Surplus Co..

I've long been a supporter of Bumperactive - Kyle and I are friends and former neighbors. He's created a process whereby a user can design a bumpersticker, and order one or more copies. There's an online tool for designing the sticker, or you can upload a design. The bumpersticker is catalogued, and the designer has the option of taking a commission or committing it to a cause. Kyle, a journalist and activist, maintains a blog ("The Bumper Sticker Times") at the site and plans to add discussion forums. Checking the site to research this post, I just got carried away and created three bumperstickers...!