www.etsy.com - Your place to buy and sell all things handmade. Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade. What is Etsy? Our mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers. Our vision is to build a new economy and present a better choice: Where is Etsy? The Etsy community spans the globe with buyers and sellers coming from more than 150 countries. Etsy sellers number in the hundreds of thousands. If each of these sellers stood outside at night with a really bright flashlight pointed towards the sky, it might look something like the image to the right. Who is Etsy? Etsy was founded in June, 2005. We are a community and a company.