Skopje · open to interesting things
Martin Stoimenov

Hi, I’m Martin Stoimenov

Marketer who ships. Builder who doesn’t commit to GitHub. Founder by accident, strategist by design.

I’ve spent the last decade at the intersection of marketing, product, and the kind of late-night “what if we just built it” energy that turns Notion docs into live software. I co-founded and sold Dropshipping.com, shipped AI tools before it was everyone’s side project, and have a bad habit of joining early-stage things as “the marketing guy” and ending up in product meetings by week two.

Currently: Growth at BrandsGateway, co-founder of QAtoDev, and apparently applying for jobs while also building three other things.

📣 Growth & Marketing 🧩 Product Strategy ⚡ AI Tooling & Automation
LinkedIn ↗ X / Twitter ↗ stoimenovmartin99@gmail.com ↗
01 / Work

Things I’ve built (or helped break)

Some are acquired. Some are internal. Some live on a server in North Macedonia. All of them taught me something.

Dropshipping.com
→ dropship.it

Founder · Acquired

The one I built from scratch and sold.

Co-founded and led Dropshipping.com from 2021 to 2025 — grew it into one of the most-visited dropshipping media and education platforms globally, with a community of 100,000+ members, original content, supplier databases, and tools. Built and led a team of marketers, writers, designers, and developers. Acquired in 2025. Now lives at dropship.it.
dropship.it ↗

AI Shopify Store Builder

Product · @ Dropshipping.com

First-to-market AI store builder. Before everyone else had one.

In 2024, we shipped an AI-powered Shopify store builder that let users generate a fully-configured dropshipping store — niche, theme, products, branding — in under 5 minutes. Built using AI automation pipelines before “vibe coding” was a word. I owned the product spec, user flow, and launch. My co-builder Dushan handled the engineering magic. 20+ beta users. Quietly ahead of its time.
Product ↗ Tech write-up ↗

QAtoDev

Co-founder · Active

AI debugging that writes the fix, not just the report.

Co-founded with Hristijan Manasijev (he writes the code, I write the strategy — it works). QAtoDev records bug sessions with full context and uses AI agents to generate code fixes and pull requests automatically. Built for engineering leads at 10–200 person SaaS teams already using AI coding tools. Currently in public beta.
qatodev.com ↗

Laranote

Product · Internal Tool

Real-time collaborative notes with AI. Built before everyone called theirs an AI workspace.

Contributed to Laranote as product manager and strategic collaborator — an AI-powered real-time collaborative note-taking app built on Laravel, InertiaJS, TipTap, and Y.js. Originally built for internal use at our studio. Think Nuclino meets AI agents. I didn’t write the code. I did write every spec, user story, and “what if it also did this” Slack message. Ask Dushan — he’ll confirm, possibly with mild frustration.
Tech write-up ↗

Sidekick

Product · Internal Tool

Privacy-first time tracking. Built for our team, used by real teams.

Sidekick is a privacy-first time tracking and project management tool — built internally while running Dropshipping.com, and now a fully live product. I contributed on the product and positioning side. It does what every time tracker claims to do, but actually cares about your data. Built in North Macedonia, trusted by teams worldwide.
sidekick.mk ↗

AI Automations &
Vibe-Coded Tools

Builder · Ongoing

No GitHub profile. Plenty of receipts.

Over the past year I’ve built a small library of internal AI tools — workflow automations, Claude-powered content pipelines, Apify scrapers, outreach tools, and a few Lovable/Cursor projects that live happily in private repos (or someone’s Downloads folder). I can’t show you the GitHub commits. But I can show you the outputs. Reach out and I’ll walk you through them.
Email me for a walkthrough ↗
02 / Trajectory

Where I’ve been

Jun 2021 — Aug 2025

Dropshipping.com Co-founder & CEOAcquired

Built a media + education empire for dropshippers. Then sold it.

2025 — Present

BrandsGateway Growth Manager

Scaling ARR for Europe’s leading B2B luxury fashion dropshipping supplier.

Aug 2020 — Sep 2021

Thrasker Senior Marketing Manager · FL, USA

Led digital campaigns for US e-commerce clients. 200% engagement growth across 5 accounts. Managed PPC, copy, and design teams.

Jan 2019 — Sep 2020

Solveo Co SEO & Content Specialist

Built content systems and LinkedIn lead gen for EU SaaS startups. Also: link building, email marketing, and learning that B2B content is a long game.

2019 — 2024

Techstars Startup Weekend Skopje Organizer & Mentor

Helped early-stage founders in Macedonia sharpen ideas and pitch. Still the most energizing 54-hour weekends I’ve had.

03 / Paper

Credentials (the official ones)

The unofficial education: four years of shipping things, breaking things, and reading Lenny’s Podcast transcripts at 11pm.

04 / Now

Right now