Ultrazon Inc.
| Ultrazon Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Trade name | Ultrazon |
| Company type | Startup technology company |
| Industry | E-commerce |
| Incorporated | May 6, 2024 |
| Founder | Stan Switaj |
| Key people | Stan Switaj (CEO) |
| Predecessors | BestInternetSearch, GitBusiness, UltraHot.TV |
| Telephone | 1-(800)-581-4770 |
| Website | ultrazon.com |
| Platform version | 3.14 (2026) |
Ultrazon Inc., doing business as Ultrazon, is an American multinational startup technology company in e-commerce. It was incorporated on May 6, 2024, and its founder and chief executive officer is Stan Switaj, who also programmed its shopping platform. The company can be reached on 1-(800)-581-4770.
Ultrazon is the consolidation of three earlier websites Switaj founded and programmed from 2020 onward — BestInternetSearch, GitBusiness and UltraHot.TV — brought together under a single company he conceived in 2023 and has been implementing since. Its product is an online marketplace and the software that runs it, written from first principles in Python 3 with PostgreSQL and no web framework.
History
The three predecessor sites were built separately between 2020 and 2023, each addressing a different area — search, source hosting for businesses, and streaming video. Switaj's stated intention in 2023 was to consolidate them into one company, and Ultrazon Inc. was incorporated on May 6, 2024, with Switaj as chief executive officer.
Development of the Ultrazon platform is recorded version by version in the company's own project documentation, beginning at version 1.0 with a bare CGI page and no database at all. The 1.x series built the foundations — two PostgreSQL databases, session and visitor tracking, the router and page system, the slide-out menu and the appearance settings. The 2.x series brought the storefront proper: product search, product pages and reviews, the shopping cart, wish lists, accounts and the account-management area. The 3.x series has been about commerce and reach — the eBay catalogue pipeline, PayPal and card payment, guest checkout, order tracking, the company's own text-message gateway and translation into twelve further languages. The platform stood at version 3.14 in 2026.
The platform remains a work in progress rather than a launched storefront: development is ongoing and documented release by release, and as of September 2026 the ultrazon.com address serves a placeholder page.
Platform architecture
The Ultrazon site is written as plain Python 3 CGI: scripts compute a page in full and then print it, with no framework, no template engine and no object-relational mapper. A single entry point reads the request, establishes or restores the visitor's session, works out which page is being asked for, and executes that page's own file inside its namespace, so every page has the session, the visitor's preferences and the shared page furniture already available to it.
Storage is split across two PostgreSQL databases. One holds the people — users, sessions, visitors, login state, payments and password-reset tokens — and the other holds the commerce — products, carts, searches, lists and stores. The two are joined in Python rather than in the database, so no cross-database link is required.
Sessions are the spine of the site. A visitor is issued a session cookie anchored to the company's apex domain rather than to the particular subdomain in use, which is what allows the mobile and secure subdomains to share one signed-in session rather than fighting over duplicate cookies. The database, not the browser, is treated as the authority on what the session is. Browser and platform detection runs on every request, so a phone is served the mobile layout and an Android application build is recognised as such, and the site redirects between its own subdomains accordingly — a mobile visitor to the main domain, and the cart and account pages to the secure one.
Errors from any script are written to a server-side log directory rather than shown to visitors, and every page's appearance is decided on the server and written into the page before it is sent, so a returning visitor's dark mode or menu position does not flash into place after the page loads.
The storefront
Shoppers can search the catalogue, with results presented either as infinite scrolling or as numbered pages according to a preference stored with the session; browse product pages carrying photographs, prices and a paginated review section with star ratings; keep products in wish lists organised by category; and manage a cart whose contents survive signing in, since a guest's cart is transferred to their account at login.
An account area covers the profile, the shipping address, saved payment cards, lists, an avatar upload and password changes. Registration validates the username and email address as they are typed, and account recovery covers both a forgotten username and a forgotten password, the latter by a time-limited reset link.
The interface is extensively adjustable. A visitor can put the slide-out menu on either side, switch between light and dark mode, choose one of ten colour themes, pick infinite scroll or pagination, and change the direction of the countdown animation on the sign-in screens; each choice is stored with the session and applied server-side on the next page.
Checkout and payment
Checkout is deliberately ordered so that everything affecting the amount owed happens before payment is authorised: contact details, the shipping address, the shipping method, an optional donation, and only then the payment step. Choosing a shipping method fixes the total and unlocks payment selection; changing the shipping method or the donation afterwards invalidates the payment selection and asks for it again, so a shopper is never charged a figure different from the one they approved.
Payment by PayPal is taken as a full-page redirect to PayPal's own approval page, returning the shopper to their checkout with the basket, shipping choice and donation exactly as they left them. The order is created with an authorisation rather than an immediate capture: the money is held while the order is placed and taken only once it is, and a capture that fails after a successful authorisation voids the hold, so a shopper is never left with money held against a purchase that did not happen.
Cards can be paid two ways — a card already saved to the account, unlocked with its security code, or a card typed directly into PayPal's own hosted fields. Saved card numbers are encrypted in the database, with only the last four digits kept separately so that screens can show a card without unlocking anything; the security code is not stored at all by default and is asked for at each purchase, with an opt-in setting for shoppers who want one-press repeat purchases. Refused attempts are recorded with their reason, and no order is written unless the money actually moved.
Guest checkout does not require an account, but offers one built out of the checkout already in progress, suggesting a username so the shopper is not made to invent one mid-purchase. A guest may verify themselves either by email or by mobile telephone number alone, and an account can be created, signed into, recovered and used to track orders on a phone number with no email address at all.
After a purchase the shopper receives an on-screen receipt and the same receipt by email or text message, and a Track Your Orders page shows each parcel's progress through order placed, packed, shipped, out for delivery and delivered, built so that live carrier updates can be added later.
Languages
Beyond English, the site is translated into twelve languages — Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, German, French, Hindi, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew and Polish — with coverage extending to interface details such as validation messages, button states and the stages of a parcel's journey.
Development practice
The company keeps a detailed changelog of every version of the platform, together with a one-line public summary of each, and cuts a versioned archive for each release. Product photographs are archived separately from the source, since already-compressed images do not compress further and were doubling the size of every backup. Development is documented in the plain-language style of the company's release notes, which record faults found and fixed as well as features added.
Contact
Ultrazon Inc. can be reached by telephone on 1-(800)-581-4770.
See also
External links
- Ultrazon.com — company website
