Our Story

Built for eBay Sellers, By eBay Sellers

BayKit was born out of real frustration. We know what it feels like to spend hours rewriting titles, guessing at categories, and hoping your pricing is competitive. We built the tool we always wished existed.

Our Mission

Level the Playing Field for Independent eBay Sellers

Large-scale eBay operations have teams of specialists optimizing every listing. Independent sellers have none of that. Our mission is to give every seller — whether you list 10 items or 10,000 — access to the same AI-powered optimization that enterprise sellers take for granted.

How We Got Here

From One Seller's Frustration to a Platform

2022

The Problem

Mark Chen, an eBay PowerSeller with hundreds of electronics listings, was spending 3+ hours a night manually optimizing titles and descriptions. Every night, the same tedious work.

2023

The Prototype

Mark built a Python script using early language models to draft listing titles. The results were rough, but conversions improved 18% in the first month. He knew he was onto something.

2024

BayKit Is Born

After fellow sellers kept asking to use his tool, Mark brought in Sara and James to build it properly. BayKit launched in 2024 with a mission to empower every independent eBay seller.

What We Believe

Our Values

Seller First

Every feature decision starts with one question: does this make life easier for eBay sellers? We build for the people in the trenches, not the spreadsheet.

AI-Powered

We harness the latest large language models to automate the tedious work of listing optimization so you can focus on sourcing and selling.

Transparent

No surprise charges, no locked-in contracts, no dark patterns. Our pricing is public, our roadmap is open, and our support team is human.

Always Improving

We ship weekly. Every piece of seller feedback becomes a ticket. The platform you use today will be meaningfully better in 30 days.

The People Behind BayKit

Meet the Team

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Mark Chen

CEO & Founder

Former eBay PowerSeller with 12 years of experience across electronics and collectibles. Built BayKit after spending too many nights manually rewriting listing titles.

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Sara Kim

CTO

Previously led infrastructure at two YC-backed startups. Obsessed with sub-100ms API latency and making complex systems feel effortless for end users.

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James Liu

Head of AI

PhD in NLP from Carnegie Mellon. Spent three years fine-tuning language models before joining BayKit to apply that expertise to eBay listing optimization.

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