We build small, real tools from problems people already complain about.

Missoula, Montana. Every idea starts as a cheap, honest test. Only the ones people will pay for get built.

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How we decide what to build

Four steps, always in this order. Most ideas don't make it past the first two.

  1. Find the complaint

    Look for the same complaint showing up again and again: forum posts, low-star reviews, gig listings, marketplace searches.

  2. Test it cheap

    Put up a real, specific page describing the fix and see if anyone cares, before a line of product code gets written.

  3. Talk to buyers

    Reach out to real people with the problem and ask if they'd pay for the fix. If they wouldn't, it dies here.

  4. Build the narrow thing

    Only what people said they'd pay for. Built small, shipped fast, and watched closely once it's live.

What we're testing right now

These are early tests, not finished products with a track record. Each one is a real page testing a specific promise on real visitors.

For trading card resellers

Scan-to-listing for card sellers

Turns flatbed scans of a batch of cards into ready-to-upload eBay and Shopify listing files: titles, conditions, categories, and pricing from one pass.

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For small retail shops

Purchase order and vendor invoice tracking

Keep purchase orders and vendor invoices straight without wrestling a spreadsheet or an ERP built for a much bigger business.

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For marketplace sellers

Payments and account hold appeal pack

A plain-language, flat-fee starting point for sellers hit with a payments or account hold on Shopify Payments, eBay, or Amazon. A clearer alternative to the $500-plus letter services.

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For new sellers

Marketplace onboarding launch pack

A flat-fee setup pack for getting a new seller live on eBay, TikTok Shop, Walmart, or Etsy. Built for the gap between figuring it out alone and the $1,000-plus agencies.

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What we don't do

A few rules we hold to on purpose. They're the difference between a studio and a pile of unfinished side projects.

No brainstorming.
Every idea traces back to a real complaint, a real search, or a real job post. Never a hunch about what might be useful.
No spending ahead of proof.
Nothing costs real money until a free test has already shown people want it.
No pretending something's proven.
A page up for two weeks with no signups is a test that failed, not a coming soon. We kill things on a plan, not a feeling.
No spam, no mass blasts.
Outreach is a short, named list of real people with the actual problem. Never a list bought or scraped in bulk.

Big Sky Foundry is a small, deliberately slow-growing studio in Missoula, Montana. The goal isn't to launch as many things as possible. It's to build only the few things worth building, and to be honest about the rest.

Running into one of the problems above, or have one of your own worth looking into?

Contact contact@bigskyfoundry.com