Notes

Notes from running an Etsy shop and building the tool that manages it. Measurements, limits, and things that went wrong.

Measurement5 September 2026

The date on your listing is probably the wrong one

Etsy’s API returns two creation dates for every listing, and the obvious one is the wrong one. We measured the difference: it threw our favourites‑per‑day figure out by a factor of 37.

6 min read · in English
Limits2 September 2026

Thirteen tags, twenty characters: what Etsy actually accepts

There is a difference between rejecting a field and silently ignoring it, and Etsy does both.

8 min read · in English
What happened28 August 2026

The day two listings disappeared

Two listings were removed over a brand name, and 31 orders went with them. What happened, and what we missed.

5 min read · in English