About Sean
Hi, I'm Sean Naden, a web designer from Auckland, New Zealand.
I'm a ‘digital nomad’ travelling around New Zealand, right now I'm in Te Awamutu, the north island.
From 2000 to 2005 I worked as the designer at Netconcepts, a US/NZ web agency specialising in ecommerce, where I learnt my trade as a web designer and front-end coder.
Around 2003 I created what was called then Vendorama, a free online store builder. It was like Shopify but Shopify didn't exist yet.
In 2005 I left Netconcepts to work full time on Vendorama. Between 2005 and 2010 the Vendorama developed with the help of some devs and sales people, to where I had around 50 stores selling. Our first sale was in November 2006 for catdoor magnets, on www.catdoor.co.nz (it is no longer running on Vendorama).
By 2010 I started working on a whole new marketplace type plartform that would become ‘Vendo’. Vendo can automatically list products from online stores running on any platform such as Shopify, Woocommerce, Magento etc.
Vendo is now a discovery shopping platform for kiwis to discover, shop and buy from local and independent retailers around New Zealand.
I still do freelance web design with a focus on online stores particularly running on the Vendo platform, like tasart.co.nz and crystallight.co.nz
Please feel free to get in touch.