A: Hey, great questions honestly and welcome back to us too 😄
I'll try to answer everything transparently.

1. Here are a few live businesses running on Selldone with completely different business models:

• https://petzbuddy.com/ (Pet store, New York)
• https://forgurls.com/ (Fashion store for teenagers, New York)
• https://elkgrovewines.com/ (Wine marketplace, California)
• https://thedigitalsoft.com/ (Software store, California)
• https://nittsy.com/ (Digital File Marketplace, India)

One thing we focused on from day one was building a unified infrastructure instead of “just another store builder,” so physical, digital, marketplace, service-based, and listing models can all run on the same core.

2. You can absolutely sell digital products, files, licenses, software, subscriptions, etc. About the link-in-bio style feature specifically, I’m not 100% sure I’d call it a dedicated “link-in-bio product” yet, so I don’t want to overclaim there.

3. TikTok Shop is already in our roadmap. We’ve already integrated services like Facebook Pixel and Google Merchant, and social commerce integrations are becoming increasingly important for us as the platform grows.

4. This is probably the most important question here, so I’ll answer it openly.

Mehrdad and I have been building companies together since 2008. Selldone was launched on AppSumo back in 2022, and at that time we had around 200 features. Today we’re past 1600+ features and still shipping aggressively.

The company has been profitable from day one and fully bootstrapped. We learned a lot from previous failures and successes, especially how to grow sustainably without burning massive amounts on marketing.

As for why we came back to AppSumo: honestly, because we owe a lot to the AppSumo community. Back then only a few hundred businesses were using Selldone. Today we’re serving over 26,000 businesses worldwide, and many users kept asking us to return. (You can read in the Questions)

Another big reason is that we recently launched our advanced service & listing marketplace builder, and AppSumo users are honestly some of the best early adopters when it comes to feedback and stress-testing new ideas.

Regarding funding: yes, we’ve had serious interest. A few top-tier VCs have been monitoring us for a while now, but we’ve intentionally stayed careful because our focus has always been product-market fit first, not raising money for the sake of headlines.

Long term? We’re here for the long run. We already had AI and automation deeply planned into Selldone years before the recent AI wave exploded. Our vision has always been building a true Business OS that eventually supports the full business lifecycle and supply chain, not just storefront creation.

And a fun milestone for us recently: Forbes placed Selldone #1 in a comparison alongside major ecommerce platforms. No ads, no sponsorships, no paid placement — which honestly meant a lot to us as a bootstrapped team.

5. Full API access is included, even for free users. APIs are a core philosophy for us, not an enterprise lock-in feature.

About custom integrations: speed is actually one of our strongest points. Internally our architecture was designed to move very fast. We’ve had cases where payment or shipping integrations were implemented within hours. I genuinely haven’t seen many ecommerce SaaS platforms move as fast as our engineering pipeline does.

6. Customization-wise, there’s honestly almost no hard limit. You can go from simple drag-and-drop landing pages all the way to fully custom experiences and dynamic sections.

And yes — designs like drinkleeva.com or lineageprovisions.com are absolutely achievable in Selldone.

This article explains the structure really well because our philosophy is a bit different from traditional ecommerce builders:
https://selldone.com/help/185-selldone-store-design-explained-whats-automatic-vs-what-you-control

Happy to answer more questions too — these were actually great ones.
Your friend,
Alireza