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Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

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Are you actually e-40?

Are you asking me if I'm E-40 the rapper? What do you think the chances of that are?

Haha, I am. I think probably pretty low. But I thought maybe. I'm a programmer who does music as well so it could be! haha

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

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> are you predicting the outcome of an effort under your development? That's an ad hominem and still leaves my point of how huge the amount of underestimated work there is. The problem is the volume of work first, the quality of work (by both OP's self-admitted juniorness and by lack of time for a full-time project) second. Also, your standards are high for ecommerce but you don't think a lot of effort is required to…

"basic requirement" huh, like exporting customer orders to a format ready to import into accounting software, aka "advanced report writing". Sorry, only available in the $299 per month shopify plan. Look, if you like Shopify... go for it. Me, I would avoid that thing like the plague. I value flexible parameters and increased possibilities over a stifled e-store that pops out the vending machine slot if you remember t…

299 sounds a lot cheaper than hiring a full time developer to build from scratch, not to mention all the free alternatives to not-invented-here.
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