gromco
 
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mission
Gromco's mission is to create web-based tools for finding and selecting products and services in large cities.

our sites

Our current site line-up includes:

  • 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.

  • as well as

  • Site Bits - an international travel guide for the culturally-curious traveler.
  • Freelance BBS - a service connecting freelancers in various metro areas with project managers.

history


The past -- In 1996, Gromco started out as a project to experiment with Internet applications in various areas. The founders' varied interests produced an extensive list of ideas: from remote tutoring to niche entertainment to an e-commerce project for selling sneakers on the web.

However, it was the tedious personal and business decisions encountered by each of the founders in their respective places of residence that led to the common vision of developing extremely practical sites to address the needs of people living in large metropolitan areas.

The present -- 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.

PEOPLE
Our core team is very small. We have worked together for many years and we love what we do.

our name
Our company's name is an abbreviation of the motto that we came up with on launching our very first project in 1996 - "Get Rid Of Mental Contamination!" Although this sounds a bit sophomoric today (especially now that we are a decade and a half older), we feel that it's more relevant than ever. We approach complex problems and try to dissect and organize the ocean of available information to present the user with what's truly necessary for solving the task at hand.