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If yes, then why build? If no, can you customise the service? If not, then build and make use of available code (libraries, apis, framework)
doing it by yourself will be a great learning experience but costly one.
Wish you and your friend all the best with your online store.
How about a minimal static page with an email address or phone number at the bottom for placing orders? Sounds very custom and high end. Total control over the customer relationship. Even GDPR compliant.
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…
100% this. I'd actually encourage your friend to start with an Etsy store and consider adding a shopify based store later if she gets some traction. If you'd like to help her and learn python while doing it then there's a lot you could do around analytics, market (keyword) research and marketing.
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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…
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…
It's very disappointing to see all the comments here saying "use shopify". That's what your mum would do. Are you a developer or not?
It's like saying "just use facebook, you don't need a website", or "Just eat at MacDonalds, it's much cheaper and easier".
There's no way I would recommend being tied to a monthly Shopify fee when there's much better options out there for devs to gain control, and build a faster more creative and original store.
Shopify.. Really? How unsatisfying and boring.
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.
Are you a sales rep for Shopify? That $30 per month fee is bad.
I've posted once in this thread already, but I can't stress enough that you should use Shopify. Not only that, but there's an excellent article front page regarding selling online here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17239128
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100% this. I'd actually encourage your friend to start with an Etsy store and consider adding a shopify based store later if she gets some traction. If you'd like to help her and learn python while doing it then there's a lot you could do around analytics, market (keyword) research and marketing.
Can you recommend any resources for doing market research or analytics for small online shops?
Most developers who don't have operational experience of a ecommerce business will recommend some kind of open source cart. If they're in the WordPress community they'll recommend Woocommerce. If they're used to building web apps they'll recommend something built on top of their framework of choice.
Almost everyone who has experience working on a successful ecommerce business will tell you to use Shopify. It has all the basic tools you need to run a successful store. If your store is a failure on Shopify, then it would probably be a multitude worse on a custom built cart.
As stated in other comments, the actual cart is a cost center in a ecommerce business. There are stores using themes with minimal modifications doing millions in sales. On the contrary, you could have the most well built site and still have no sales.
If you want to put your technological skills to use, use it on things that generate traffic like content or marketing.