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

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

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I haven't used it, but you might be interested in https://craftcommerce.com

It's also $999 for use on a live website. It's a dark pattern that they don't expose the pricing requirement except at the bottom of the home page.

I can buy a lot of hosting on different platforms for a thousand bucks.

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…

The OP probably actually doesn't want total control, they just think they do for whichever reason. As for the price, $29/mo + 2.9% for Shopify Basic isn't bad. It's basically covered (one should hope) by a couple sales per month, especially for bespoke stitching products.

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

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Like other posters, I suggest to test the market before writting your own software. A client of mine is using https://shopk.it for the store front, and it seems quite ok at 10€/month. It allows you to have your own domain attached to it, but you have to pay a little extra for https (which is kind-of strange, but...).

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…

Have you ever tried Shopify? It's nearly full control and cheap as shit. I've started stores and sold products in the same day many times, they have 1000s of apps, and even 2 week trial that enables you to test any product before even paying a cent. Unless you can't live with credit card fees, or you're selling drugs, you should almost 100% always use Shopify. Not to mention they can be scaled to the moon cheaply too. Call shopify when you hit a decent milestone and just tell them to waive you're monthly fee. Not that it'll even matter at that point.

I know I'm being a hater, but coding the store is really terrible advice. Learning to use a tool over reinventing the tool is a step backwards.

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…

If he wanted full control like he says he'd just setup an apache server on a linux system and build his own store front. He clearly wants some help somewhere between no control and full control and Shopify can get him 80% of the way there.
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