Lush Bites, a gluten-free cookie subscription box by Megan Hastings, delivers gourmet cookies straight to your door. In this box, cookies aren’t the average chocolate chip cookie – instead, subscribers receive unique flavors that they won’t find anywhere else! How did you come up with the idea? I was diagnosed with celiac disease a few
In 2016, Patrick Hines founded Nomadik, the premier subscription box for outdoor adventurers. Nomadik delivers 3-5 high-end, unique, and multi-function outdoor- and adventure-related items per month. Boxes start at $26/month and are valued up to $50. After listening to a podcast from serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, Hines got the idea to start a subscription box. In doing his research, Hines noticed subscription
Sania Jamil runs Bumble Brain Box – a monthly brain development box for infants & toddlers (0-3 years old) to stimulate social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and auditory development. Each box comes with 5-10 sensory toys, a book, assessments, 10+ learning activities, and membership for a private group with child development experts. How did you come up with
After a series of high-pressure jobs, Christina Blok decided to start a subscription box based on what helped her de-stress and escape from everyday life: books and tea. Cut to 2015, and Muse Monthly was born, bringing with it the perfect subscription for lovers of literature and tea. Listing on Cratejoy’s Marketplace: The Results It
A self-professed DIY lover, Amy Baker launched her paper goods and crafts shop, Paper Crane Wishes, on Etsy in 2010. Baker initially started her shop as a fun side hobby while working full-time as a library technician at a community college. By 2014, the business started to take off; currently, Paper Crane Wishes has more
Cratejoy Case Study: The Planner Addict Box “My initial launch, May 2014, had 150 subscribers. Today, in February 2016, we have 1,700… And I can’t wait to see where it grows!” Planner Addict Box founder Vienna Ortiz is being humble. For both her boxes – a second, sticker-centric collection debuted later on – it’s more like 2,000. But who’s counting?
May 2016 will mark the one-year anniversary of The Book(ish) Box, a subscription crate spinoff of the Appraising Pages Shop that launched last spring, packaging exclusive T-shirts with fandom- and literary-inspired, useful and beautiful handcrafted objects sourced from other artisans and small shops. That first box sold less than 100 subscriptions, against the owner Justine’s