I'd really encourage you to download a screen reader such as NVDA (or use VoiceOver if you're on a Mac), make use of the Lighthouse accessibility audit in Chrome dev tools, and try using your site with just a keyboard to test for accessibility. At the moment the biggest problem is you've used divs with click handlers rather than tags for your product links, which can't be focussed with the keyboard, so anybody using a keyboard to navigate (such as someone with reduced mobility or using a screen reader) won't be able to use the site.
Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
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Re: Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
#32Agree with some of the other commenters here – this seems really really smart, but only because I live and work deep in Shopify land. It was immediately obvious to me what this means, but there's plenty of Shopify merchants and partners who aren't even aware of the Lite plan, and if they know it's there, are unclear of the limitations. I can definitely think of people who this would be great for – it's almost like he…
What’s a good way to learn the shopify platform?
Re: Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
#33I made a simple web app for merchants/small businesses who use Shopify Lite Plan and want to have a simple/minimal storefront. I built this initially for my wife. She owns two online stores in Shopify. With her Lite plan, she only pays $9/month/store versus the Basic plan for $29/month/store. Since the Lite plan doesn't include an online store, TinyStore allows merchants to have one. The app is still new. I appreciat…
Great use of Bulma ;-)
Re: Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
#34Agree with some of the other commenters here – this seems really really smart, but only because I live and work deep in Shopify land. It was immediately obvious to me what this means, but there's plenty of Shopify merchants and partners who aren't even aware of the Lite plan, and if they know it's there, are unclear of the limitations. I can definitely think of people who this would be great for – it's almost like he…
Its a good idea but there are other companies in the tinystore market worth having a look at too before opting for shopify
Re: Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
#35I think you need to work on your landing page. There's almost nothing on there that makes it obvious to me what this actually does.
Agree. Thanks for the feedback. I’m thinking to add a “How it works” section to explain what it really does.
Re: Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
#36I made a simple web app for merchants/small businesses who use Shopify Lite Plan and want to have a simple/minimal storefront. I built this initially for my wife. She owns two online stores in Shopify. With her Lite plan, she only pays $9/month/store versus the Basic plan for $29/month/store. Since the Lite plan doesn't include an online store, TinyStore allows merchants to have one. The app is still new. I appreciat…
Great use of Bulma ;-)
Thanks. It's 99% Bulma defaults.
Re: Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
#37I would not shop at this store - it's completely broken.
I went to "live demo" to check it out. Scrolled to bottom and clicked on LED Hightops. Read the description. Hit "back." Suddenly I'm not at the "store" demo anymore, now I'm back at the landing page, which would be the previous site if this was a real store. Fuck, that's annoying. Clicked live demo again, remembered the site it broken so I have to open new products in a new tab, long pressed another product, no context menu comes up so no way to open in new tab (because, according to another poster products links are not links).
I give up, I'll buy something else somewhere else.
Re: Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
#38I'm not that particularly impressed when I click on a category and it flashes "No products to display" on my screen for a second before it loads in the data.
Sadly so many sites these days do the same thing, flashing a default state while the true state loads. While it's prettier and faster, so much of the web functions more poorly than it did 20 years ago.
Re: Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
If there's one thing I'd suggest, it would be putting a blurb something like the above on your website as well - as someone with 0 contextual information about Shopify, there was no obvious problem the application was solving, even after reading the FAQ.
Agreed - saying something like "Having a storefront on Shopify would normally cost you an extra $20/month. TinyStore does this for $5/month." would sell pretty well I'd assume.
Exactly this, didn't know that Shopify had a headless mode that does not include the storefront, so the question was: why not using the default Shopify storefront?
Re: Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
#40I'd really encourage you to download a screen reader such as NVDA (or use VoiceOver if you're on a Mac), make use of the Lighthouse accessibility audit in Chrome dev tools, and try using your site with just a keyboard to test for accessibility. At the moment the biggest problem is you've used divs with click handlers rather than tags for your product links, which can't be focussed with the keyboard, so anybody using…
I'm not usually a nut for accessibility, but you make a good point. Using semantic HTML tags and a few other basic best practices (e.g. alt/title attributes, sufficient color contrast) goes a long way.