Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

Post by InvertedRhodium » Tue, May 18, 2021, 5:03 AM UTC

netfortius wrote: post #20

InvertedRhodium wrote: post #19

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If there's one thing I'd suggest, it would be putting a blurb something like the above on your website as well - as someone with 0 contextual information about Shopify, there was no obvious problem the application was solving, even after reading the FAQ.

If this is meant to be used with Shopify, why would someone w/zero contextual information on such would even be interested?

Post by quickthrower2 » Wed, May 19, 2021, 10:07 AM UTC

berkes wrote: post #49

throwarayes wrote: post #46

I’m going to be the contrarian here :) I would just pay $29/month for Shopify basic plan. Is the $20 difference worth self hosting and tweaking a custom thing? You’ll quickly lose that $20 in time better spent running your business. I’d rather have reliable hosting... Not to bash a cool side project. Just want to say it’s not a panacea.

I've ran and helped with very low volume shopify websites[0]. With such, reliability is less of an issue, yet the yearly $240 is the difference making the profitability. I do see a niche for tinystore, but, like you, I also see that anyone making some real money off their store will gladly pay some extra's for more reliability and less fuss. -- [0] the ones now often reaching to woocommerce or equivalents. A hobby-,…