Built by Resellers,
for Resellers

The Story Behind Manufacture Direct

It started with a bad order. In 2004, our founder was reselling electronics on eBay and got burned by a sketchy supplier — $400 down the drain on a batch of broken MP3 players from an unverified source.

Instead of quitting, he built a spreadsheet of every supplier he'd personally tested, verified, and found reliable. He put it on a website. Within a year, 500 people were visiting it daily. They had the same problem: finding trustworthy sources is hard.

"The whole point was simple — I wanted a list I wished existed when I was starting out."

Twenty years later, that list has grown into a comprehensive directory of 500+ verified suppliers, a weekly newsletter read by 12,000+ resellers, and a suite of free tools that help real people build real product businesses.

We make money through affiliate commissions when you click through to suppliers and make a purchase — which means we're incentivized to only recommend suppliers that actually deliver. If they're bad, you don't buy, we don't earn. Our interests are fully aligned.