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What's it like to build an e-commerce website in 2025?

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Ever wondered how these multi-billion-dollar companies, like Amazon and Flipkart, entered the e-commerce sector? Was it a casual boom, or their determination and the goals that made them such a big hit in the market? Well, let us see how these two businesses were initially before they became such a big hit: Flipkart: Flipkart was merely an online bookstore launched by Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal in 2005, which promised to deliver anywhere in India. They acquired their first customer in 2007 from Bengaluru, with more than 3400 shipments sent successfully by then. The first book was pre-ordered in January 2009 on Flipkart under the name “Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol”. Flipkart ordered the first social book recommendation portal called WeRead in March 2010. Amazon: Did you know that Amazon was started in the garage of Jeff Bezos, who left his job at D.E. Shaw & Co. as Vice President to become synonymous with e-commerce a decade later.  In 1994, Amazon started as an online bookse...