is facing some intense competition in a side of e-commerce that remains buoyant in the face of the downturn – online tickets.
Chief executive Jon Baker says the difference is that Stubmatic doesn’t charge customers a booking fee – which will be a welcome change for regular online shoppers used to watching the extra charges pile on. Baker runs the site in his spare with his wife from their home in Truro, Cornwall, and has funded it privately so far. With a base of a few hundred users so far, Stubmatic has along way to go before it can take on the established players in the space – but has managed to collaborate with a major UK charity by setting up an API that integrates their service. Baker explains that the site is seeing 40-60% growth in paid monthly users, and 15,000 visitors each month despite the downturn. So with that and the enviable Cornish lifestyle, things are looking up.