Shopify and the Power of Platforms

Post by unixhero » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 6:11 AM UTC

nickjj wrote: post #29

_csoo wrote: post #4

Shopify is just the next closed-source iteration of WordPress and Magento. WordPress has one of the largest platforms and they've taken over (and open-sourced) blogging, content management, learning management systems, and ecommerce. They and Magento are better examples of a platform than Shopify. In the long-term, "platforms" like Shopify lose because they don't have nearly enough developers. They have ~3000 "apps"…

I think a big difference is Shopify's core product has a bunch of really useful things to help sell things. You don't need plugins or third party apps written by other developers to get a superb selling experience (note: I don't work at Shopify but I used the platform a few years ago and even wrote some custom apps / templates for it). The benefit is the core product is insanely battle hardened and you can depend on…

Post by quickthrower2 » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 11:14 AM UTC

ganeshkrishnan wrote: post #162

quickthrower2 wrote: post #159

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Why not do both? Amazon gets you your first orders. You ship with a note saying visit mystore.com for the full range, and sign up for discounts at mystore.com/discounts.

This would get you quickly banned on Amazon.

Post by bluGill » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 1:05 PM UTC

larrywright wrote: post #122

bluGill wrote: post #113

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There is one other reason to do things: you cannot trust anyone else to do it. Fullfilling and/or profitable are hopefully the only ones that apply, but sometimes you have to do something because the risk is too high...

I’m not sure that applies to the Shopify argument here, but maybe you didn’t intend it to.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 2:24 PM UTC

unixhero wrote: post #161

nickjj wrote: post #29

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I think a big difference is Shopify's core product has a bunch of really useful things to help sell things. You don't need plugins or third party apps written by other developers to get a superb selling experience (note: I don't work at Shopify but I used the platform a few years ago and even wrote some custom apps / templates for it). The benefit is the core product is insanely battle hardened and you can depend on…

You didn't mention Magneto, Prestashop ir WooCommerce in your comment.

Post by hw » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

rladd wrote: post #139

rladd wrote: post #138

Here are some excerpts from my recent conversation with Shopify support: Q: noticed that sockfancy.com is using shopify? is there a way to set things up like they do: user checks off the options they want and then they go directly to a single-page checkout for their subscription? A: A subscription is a recurring order. For recurring orders they are using Recurring Orders & Subscription Box App by Bold, and Recurring…

Another point about hosted platforms: if they run slowly, there's not that much you can do to fix it. Here's a GTMetrix report for the aforementioned site: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/sockfancy.com/gSNvns6s Fully Loaded Time - 7.8s Not sure anyone would think this is an acceptable amount of time to wait for a page to load.