Gromco's mission is to provide our users with web-based tools for finding and selecting services and products that address their needs.
Our current site line-up includes:
- Credit Card Menu - a leading credit card comparison-shopping site. The site lists dozens of cards from leading U.S. issuers and allows visitors to compare, in an easy-to-read format, the cards' basic parameters such as fees, interest rates, benefits and so on.
- NY Bits - a guide to residential real estate in New York City. This web site contains the most complete (to the best of our knowledge) directory of rental buildings in New York City. Hundreds of building profiles and photos.
- Montreal Bits - Montreal Bits helps city newcomers as well as current residents of Montreal find a great place to live.
- Site Bits - an international travel guide for the culturally curious traveler. We highlight the best places to eat, shop and visit and also provide background information on our select destinations to make travel planning a breeze.
- Makeup Bits - a newly launched blog about cosmetic products.
- Freelance BBS - a service connecting freelancers with project managers.
- Hommit - a blog which recommends cool and cute products for your home.
The past --
In 1996, Gromco started out as a project to experiment with Internet applications in various areas.
The founders' different interests contributed to a broad list of ideas from remote tutoring to
niche entertainment to an e-commerce project of selling sneakers on the web.
However, it was the tedious personal and business decisions encountered by each of the founders that led to the common vision of developing extremely practical sites to address the needs of consumers and small businesses. Credit Card Menu (originally, "Credit Card Advisor") was created in early 1996 as an alternative to sifting through the pile of mail from credit card issuers.
Three years later, Freelance BBS was launched after the company tried to quickly assemble a project team only to find that there were no web-based marketplaces where small businesses and freelancers with matching skills could find each other.
The present -- Similarly, NY Bits (formerly "Sitebits - New York") began as a way for one of our team members to organize his apartment-hunting bookmarks and quickly grew into a full-fledged New York City residential real estate guide, focusing on the needs of renters and those who have recently moved into the city. Inspired by the success of NY Bits, Gromco launched a similar site about Montreal, Montreal Bits
And finally, Site Bits, which was already mentioned above, is our very own travelogue in which we give our straight opinions on the places we visit and things we encounter while traveling.
The future, Conan? -- Gromco will continue to create and enhance web tools that streamline the process of researching and selecting all types of services online... Okay, that means we don't talk about the future.
Our team is small yet diverse and very focused. We have worked together for many years and we love what we do. What's more, we hope you love what we do just as much... as we do. (The group, however diverse, does not yet include any laureats of the Nobel prize in literature.)
Our company's name is an abbreviation of the motto that
we came up with in 1996 - "Get Rid
Of
Mental Contamination!"
Although this sounds a bit sophomoric today
(especially now that
we are a decade older), we feel that it's
more relevant than ever. At times, the bombardment of spam,
pop-ups, banners and just plain bad, irrelevant content makes
doing anything on the web analogous to walking through pedestrian traffic
in Times Square. We pride ourselves in operating
clean, uncluttered, relevant and useful web sites.
