• Has real users
• Makes real money
• Has a real vision
• Is NOT a copycat (but kicks ass in Germany nevertheless)
• Is made in Malmö by some really nice ppl.

The TC story

TechCrunch awards Flattr Best New Startup of 2010

A few hours ago the first customers picked out their packages from Bytelove Inc, the new US subsidiary of Bytelove AB. This would be the end (or beginning not sure) of a project we started a few months ago.

Bytelove Inc is not just a new shop under another judicial person but a whole new way of working for us that we will probably implement in part also for the EU in the coming months. Some points:

Magento Commerce: New e-commerce platform, yes we are leaving cubecart behind since it never really worked to run with a multistore/language setup anyway. The new store runs our first version of Magento (and no Magento is certainly far from bugfree).

Accounting: Going over to accrual basis accounting together with tighter integration of the Bytelove processes and our accounting program (quickbooks, 99USD hahaha) enables us to work faster and get more exact reporting plus minimizing errors.

Outsourced logistics: All fulfillment is done by an external partner, it is more expensive but it takes away much of the boring part of the business plus it actually force us to build better processes (so I actually think we save money in the long run). The fact that our partner has an excellent api also helps .

So far we’ve succesfully fulfilled a bit over 150 orders and counting … this was by far the funniest project I’ve done so far this year …

After a certain trial the debate regarding a free vs controlled net has pretty much exploded here in Germany. Here the front cover from Der Spiegel nr 33.

Hopefully the new site will be such an injection that we want to actively develop the project further. The original specification is from 2005 so don’t judge us to hard if some of the functions might seem a bit oldfashioned .

Istheshit.net is currently a joint project between Bytelove and Samworks.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/syncaddict/3525468897/in/photostream/ <- apparently arrived oki

Oh, we just got new securitex letters with our logo, they are just amazing … really hard to break.

The competition was up for about 14 hours and I think we already recieved several interesting design entries. I must say that even though the final design is of course overpaid by itself its hard to beat the 99designs concept when it comes to achieving a variety of designs.

The fact is though that in order to uphold todays copyright laws on the internet there would be a need for such a major monitoring of internet traffic that we would live in a surveillance society such as we have never ever seen before (and we are almost already there).

The establishment (both this government and the previous) in Sweden is disregarding the public opinion (which probably makes me vote blank the next election) and runs the errands of the nonagile developinghindering coorps instead of the people. This trial was not mainly about The Pirate Bay, because the verdict sets the tone for what is about to come and its not a good one.

If you wanna help promote these questions in your country you can go here: Piratpartiet International (if they could just change their stupid name).

Their Copyright Rights is not worth our Integrity and Freedom of Speach Rights!

via: Wolst

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Wait until its a pile of:

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Make some drawings and get a good Nepalese craftsman

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Result:

NEW BYTELOVE MERCH!

Now we just have to check if its legal to sell things made out of bones in the EU as well