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Recurring order functionality is typically delegated to a third party app in Shopify land; the two biggest incumbents in this space have pretty ordinary UX so it’s likely you were …

There is a great company here in Australia ( https://greatwrap.com.au ) already doing this at decent scale with potato waste. Their manufacturing costs are on par with traditional …

Disco Labs | Senior Backend Engineer | Melbourne, Australia or Remote within Australia | https://www.discolabs.com We write software that powers commerce for hundreds of merchants …

Yes! I don’t really get the jump from using the GraphQL API to “this can only be used by small players” when it’s empirically not. That article is absolutely bang on, We Make Websi…

I strongly disagree that Shopify is only good for "companies with few SKUs or mom-pop kind of stores". Perhaps that's where they started out, but their Plus offering is very solid …

I don't think this is true - I believe it's only their merchandise store that's on Shopify. Car purchases are done through their own, custom platform. That said, there are definite…

This is awesome, thanks for sharing! I'll dive into the implementation a little more shortly, but just wondering how easy it is to add additional constraints (for example, that pie…

Australia does this through the use of "franking credits" attached to dividends.

As someone who has built a comfortably profitable business focused purely on Shopify-related products and services, I agree that it's a great market to be in. I understand and can …

RailsLTS ( https://railslts.com/ ) is probably the product you're referring to in (2).

> Thanks for the excellent resources, I'll look that up. You're welcome! > Well, I haven't even created the paid product at this point, it's still early in the game. Just trying to…

Mike Perham has done a great job of turning two successful open source projects (Sidekiq and Inspeqtor) into successful businesses. If you're interested, I recommend listening to h…

Agree. The LTS releases are great, but for anything you expect to be working with on an ongoing basis I think it's worth the yearly pain of upgrading rather than a huge headache ev…

Buffer is quite well known for this, you can view the salary of everyone in the company here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgrWVeoG5divdE8... .

~$500/m from sales of my Bootstrap framework for Shopify themes ( http://www.bootstrapforshopify.com ).

Trademarks are a form of intellectual property.

It's quite real, but there are some marks which are so well-known (like Coca Cola) that they can argue that the use of the mark in any context is likely to cause consumer confusion…

What do your clients do with the things you maintain and deploy? Does it help them make money? If so, then you're helping your clients make money. I'm in the same position as you (…

I used to use Skyscanner only for intra-Europe flights, but it's quickly becoming my first and last stop when looking for cheap deals. Really fantastic service.