your pricing doesn't make sense.
$500/mo for unlimited everything?
What happens if a company scales to the size of the amazon.com ?
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#172Those efforts look impressive but no service will be a version (open source or otherwise) of Amazon until it can place a single tube of toothpaste in my garage 18 hours after I ordered it, which it just did thirty minutes ago. Amazon’s “tech” stack, both consumer- and seller-facing is horrible and borderline irrelevant. Their fleet of trucks and aircraft is not.
Amazon.com is likely the most a/b tested piece of software on the planet. It is ugly and clunky because that's what _works_ - same with Alibaba and Yahoo JP.
Amazon ios app is pretty trash. I keep getting blank white screens, it has been this way for months.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/tto68z/anyone_else_get...
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https://bol.com in the Netherlands has delivery within a few hours (by bicycle) for some cities and select products. I got in this way an inflatable mattress (old one was punctured, so I needed one by the evening for my guests) and a few other electronic devices or household items.
Well the mattress would have to be inflatable to be delivered by bicycle
The bikes are stronk here [0]!
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#174I think it would be really cool if all your sellers had to do was maintain their inventory in a google sheet, and "share" access to your marketplace thing. Maybe you require columns to be named a certain way etc, but much lower barrier to entry.
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It's amazing how many people condescend to others on here and then are surprised when someone else defends them.
It's not the concept of defence I was commenting on. It's the nastiness.
As for condescension: that's in the eye of the beholder. When the OP said "Let me know what you guys think of the idea and if you see any potential pitfalls" do you think that was a mistake to ask for feedback? Should they have only asked for affirmation?
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#176Everyone wants to be on Amazon not because of the software but because of the eyeballs that are on it searching for things to buy
Anyway how does this compare to openerp + an open storefront?
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#177What is your motivation for doing this?
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's amazing how many people condescend to others on here and then are surprised when someone else defends them.
I feel like I should bookmark this thread so I can come back in a few years when this dude is huge and say "Geez, I bet you wish you kept your yap shut" to all these people telling him to reel his ambitions in. I still smirk at the chucklehead who dismissed Drew Houston when he "Show HN: Dropbox"
How many people are saying that?
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#179Those efforts look impressive but no service will be a version (open source or otherwise) of Amazon until it can place a single tube of toothpaste in my garage 18 hours after I ordered it, which it just did thirty minutes ago. Amazon’s “tech” stack, both consumer- and seller-facing is horrible and borderline irrelevant. Their fleet of trucks and aircraft is not.
https://bol.com in the Netherlands has delivery within a few hours (by bicycle) for some cities and select products. I got in this way an inflatable mattress (old one was punctured, so I needed one by the evening for my guests) and a few other electronic devices or household items.
Bol.com gives me hope that Amazon competitors can survive by excelling in their local market.
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#180I own an ecommerce company, I've used 3PLs, and I just can't see how you could have a meaningful market for this (and to be clear I mean the current product at openship.org, not everything that you're describing).
It's basically a many-to-many connector of storefronts to 3PLs. The problem is very few people have multiple of either, let alone both. Nobody's on Shopify + WooCommerce + Wix and fulfilling from Shippo and Vistaprint.
Unless you have someone with multiple options at both ends, this isn't needed - there are 3PLs that can integrate with multiple storefronts and storefronts that can integrate with multiple 3PLs. No need to pay for a third party connector to do that.
If there is a company out there with some complex need for multiple of everything, it's probably big enough to have a dev team to integrate all their services anyway.
The bigger picture that you describe is interesting in theory, but it misses the point of Amazon's value. Amazon has infrastructure, sure, but what really matters is they have customers. I sell from my website, but I'm also on Amazon because all I had to do was list my products there and people started buying them. On my own site, I have to acquire those customers.