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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

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Good suggestion, but he said budget is very low, so is there a free solution out there?

I use wordpress + woocommerce(amazon pay) I dont think this entire setup costs 200 dollars.

Would not recommend anything Wordpress-based. That thing is a security and maintenance nightmare.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

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WordPress with WooCommerce. In the end there are only a handful of subtle differences between off the shelf solutions.

This does the job for me. Plus then you get a wordpress/php website. Im very happy now that I understand php and was able to make a custom theme.

A Wordpress website isn’t an advantage, it’s a nightmare in terms of security and maintenance.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

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A friend asked me the best way to start a few months ago. I advised her to use Squarespace for a while and if her idea takes off, perhaps then look at something a little more bespoke.

She ignored me and contracted a local development company, ended up paying £1200 for a Wordpress/WooCommerce site that could have been set up for peanuts.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This does the job for me. Plus then you get a wordpress/php website. Im very happy now that I understand php and was able to make a custom theme.

A Wordpress website isn’t an advantage, it’s a nightmare in terms of security and maintenance.

Perhaps less so if you use a wordpress hosting service.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

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To the rest of the posters... __READ__ what he is writing.. He want total control and a low budget. Have any of you even tried Shopify ? It's low control and it's expensive as hell. Ok, so i'm actually running a pretty large store on Django Oscar. But i would say that it really depends on what you are building The only reason i choose Django oscar over something like shopify is that we sell a highly customizable prod…

How does Shopify not give enough control? Anyone can write Shopify apps to extend extra features with their API or pay someone to create an app (less than paying someone for a full ecommerce site)

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

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To the rest of the posters... __READ__ what he is writing.. He want total control and a low budget. Have any of you even tried Shopify ? It's low control and it's expensive as hell. Ok, so i'm actually running a pretty large store on Django Oscar. But i would say that it really depends on what you are building The only reason i choose Django oscar over something like shopify is that we sell a highly customizable prod…

> giving discounts and creating vouchers.

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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

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Shopify or Etsy to MVP until there's traction. Don't prematurely optimize by thinking you need to use Django or write the shop yourself in the beginning. > Budget for building online store is very low. I want to full control over it and independent? Don't do this. Your time is worth something. Just keep an eye as things develop as to how you're going to get the data out of your prototype into a bespoke system, eventu…

Good suggestion, but he said budget is very low, so is there a free solution out there?

bigcartel (free for a few products, just fees) and if they start doing any amount of decent business, they can switch to shopify.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

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Drupal or Wordpress, full control, very low budget, very low expertise needed. From a business owner's point of view, Drupal and Wordpress are amazing. But if you ask any coder, they'll tell you they're a pile of shit, so don't ask :).

As a professional WordPress developer, WordPress is a non-stop frustration to work with. But as a blogger, I couldn't be happier with it. I have full control of my content and I'm not reliant on any company for hosting, software or anything else.
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