Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon • Hacker News Board

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by subpixel » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 12:12 AM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #10

sosuke wrote: post #2

But Shopify has no central search platform that I know of. The sites aren't connected to each other.

I feel that is likely coming at some point - but who knows... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20411992 Also with the recent postal changes in the US I think that will hurt AliExpress, Banggood and help Shopify and Amazon.

They already did this, it didn't work, and it would be foolish to try again and join Amazon's race to the retail bottom. And there would almost certainly be no money in it until, you know, they beat Amazon at their own game.

Pretty sure Shopify's head is screwed-on straighter than that.

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by wmeredith » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 12:26 AM UTC

alphadog wrote: post #11

Shopify isn't a homogeneous marketplace that is comparable to Amazon.com. It's a SaaS ecommerce platform. I've seen these comparisons made lately and I don't understand it. What am I missing?

What you’re missing is that comparing a company people have never heard of to a FAANG company generates clicks.

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by Mengkudulangsat » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 1:24 AM UTC

sosuke wrote: post #2

But Shopify has no central search platform that I know of. The sites aren't connected to each other.

A central search platform for Shopify stores... you mean Google?

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by HackR » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 3:48 AM UTC

sosuke wrote: post #2

But Shopify has no central search platform that I know of. The sites aren't connected to each other.

Why should they be connected to each other?

Tesla.com is powered by Shopify. They sell all of their vehicles through their site since they don't deal with dealerships.

Likewise Kylie Cosmetics is powered by Shopify. That's a billion dollar brand that's not going to be OK with being placed in a dusty corner of Amazon. They have enough brand value to drive their own audience through their own channels (Instagram, Snap, Twitter, etc).

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by ruchirule » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:33 AM UTC

This had to happen as they are one of the mordern providers for shopping. Ebay is old, still one of the top sites but OLD!!!

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by ruchirule » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:34 AM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #28

Note that they are not the second biggest shopping site by any reasonable metric (sales, visitors, unique shoppers, orders, SKUs, really anything). This article is using market cap: > The company has quickly become the most popular online shopping destination, second only to Amazon, thanks to an astronomical increase of its shares in the past year. So far this year, stock has soared 160% with revenue coming in at $36…

Yes, but it is also an ecommerce indirectly, it provides products to its users 'drop shipping'.

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by stanislavb » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:50 AM UTC

Note: Ruby on Rails cannot scale /sarcasm

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by aphroz » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:00 AM UTC

What about chinese websites like tmall or taobao? They seems to have more visitors than Amazon, do they have less sales?

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by kevindong » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:03 AM UTC

HackR wrote: post #64

sosuke wrote: post #2

But Shopify has no central search platform that I know of. The sites aren't connected to each other.

Why should they be connected to each other? Tesla.com is powered by Shopify. They sell all of their vehicles through their site since they don't deal with dealerships. Likewise Kylie Cosmetics is powered by Shopify. That's a billion dollar brand that's not going to be OK with being placed in a dusty corner of Amazon. They have enough brand value to drive their own audience through their own channels (Instagram, Snap,…

> Tesla.com is powered by Shopify. They sell all of their vehicles through their site since they don't deal with dealerships.

While this may have been true in the past, it is no longer the case. Neither the main Tesla store/website [0] nor the merchandise store (for t-shirts, assorted knick-knacks, some chargers; basically everything except the cars) [1] use Shopify. You can validate by going to those websites and Ctrl-F through all of the sources of the webpage for "shopify". The main Tesla website uses Salesforce (Ctrl-F through the sources for "salesforce").

[0]: https://www.tesla.com (definitely Salesforce)

[1]: https://shop.tesla.com (it appears that Tesla rolled their own implementation of a store)

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by Axsuul » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:06 AM UTC

iask wrote: post #54

Shopify is not enterprise ready. It’s designed for smaller self-managed stores. We recently looked into the platform to run a few large E-commerce stores. Two of the biggest issues are: 1. Payment processing. You’re forced to use their Shopify Payments. There’s no flexibility for managing that via API. Once something goes in there it’s stuck. Our particular requirement entails tokenized card info. And we needed to ac…

Can I ask what sort of apps you were looking into?