Launch HN: Thryft (YC W21) – Shopify for Instagram Sellers
Hi HN! We're Capri and Sam — the co-founders of Thryft ( https://www.thryft.shop/ ). We're an easy way to sell things on Instagram. Sam and I met in college at UC Berkeley and Sam previously built an app with 150k+ registered users that allowed users to see which other users, celebrities, presidents, etc. they look like. We built and launched a few marketplace ideas throughout YC. We originally applied with a marketplace for shopping directly from brick-and-mortar thrift stores. While we were solving a clear problem with digitizing brick-and-mortar thrift stores, in the end we didn't see a clear path to scalability with that idea. After that, we pivoted to a curated marketplace for secondhand clothing and accessories, but that didn't work because we struggled to find a differentiator from existing secondhand marketplaces that would solve a real pain poi
Why it failed
Hi HN! We're Capri and Sam — the co-founders of Thryft ( https://www.thryft.shop/ ). We're an easy way to sell things on Instagram. Sam and I met in college at UC Berkeley and Sam previously built an app with 150k+ registered users that allowed users to s
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- caprilynn
- Ended
- 2021
- Source
- hackernews