Congrats to the CivicSpace Labs team for helping get GoodStorm out the door. Here's the message that Kieran sent to the "announce" list:

GoodStorm is explicitly aimed at helping non-profit organization earn income to support their work through merchandising-- which is to say that it provides production, online sales, and fulfillment of printed branded apparel as an online service.   We think that where CivicSpace helps to provide online tools to organizations, GoodStorm will help the organizations help themselves to become financially sustainable.

We had to push a bit, but we succeeded in getting it all built on Drupal, and tons of new Drupal eCommerce functionality is being funded, built, and contributed back to Drupal as a result.  CiviCRM will be integrated as a toolset for each storeowner, and there will be modules to easily integrate GoodStorm storefronts directly into existing Drupal sites.

I can already think of a million and one uses for this. I've been dissatisfied with CafePress for years and thought (conceptually) that there were better ways to do it. I think GoodStorm is the starting point of this. With remote Drupal integration (and, if they're smart, WordPress and MovableType plugins, too), this would be a great way to do turnkey ecommerce integration. They "just" do t-shirts today, but I'll be watching them with interest to see about the addition of other products.

Large scale ecommerce, especially including the fulfillment/shipping part, is really hard, and I'm glad that we at Bryght didn't try and crack this nut ourselves yet. There have been a lot of people asking us about ecommerce solutions, but we felt we didn't have the tools to quite make it easy enough or turnkey enough yet. The GoodStorm solution will be the perfect starting point for people that want to start selling from their websites today.