How many times are we going to hear the same old story warning of platform risk? It happened with Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Stripe, and so many others. If you want to control your company, don't build off someone else's infrastructure, make your own, even if it's harder to do so.
Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout X
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#32> Shopify also dedicated some of their employees to pretend to be desperate Checkout X customers and beg our support to let them in. Not sure if I should be proud or annoyed by such pitiful actions.
Man that's something. Kinda flattering that they're so desperate for reasons to cut you off, they start to try to fabricate them.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but some times you have time to pick up enough pennies to buy the huge mansion that you see on their photos.
Sure. $600k/month sounds like some fantastic pennies.
Yeah, OP probably made $5-10M. I know founders with $100M exits that made less than that thanks to equity dilution.
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#34Can you still get around not using Shopify for their checkout with your own payment provider?
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#35Aside: Why isn't there a payment protocol standard that's implemented in browsers?
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#36"I built my business on top of someone else's product without any gurantee whatsoever of being able to continue in the future, and when it became valuable for them to stop me they did". Doesn't matter if you're a twitter client, a facebook app, a shopify app, a reddit client or whatever, either what you offer is negligible, or you did their research for them and now they can take over.
Building apps for other platforms, be they Shoppify or the App Store, always comes with the risk of getting booted off or Sherlocked. You can pray that the platform's customers will be upset if your product gets killed ("Shoppify broke our checkout screen" is not exactly bringing in new users) but in the end you need an exit strategy as a company. In this case, I do think legal action would've succeeded, but it would…
One question in my mind is - how does TSMC structure their "platform" such that not-sherlocking-customers is incentivized into their business model?
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#38Can you still get around not using Shopify for their checkout with your own payment provider?
Never mind, read further and seems you can't.
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#39Well, I can relate as I just got an email that Shopify changed their partner TOS today because of me. They had demanded that I add a negative keyword "Shopify" to all of my Google ads. I declined, because - it wasn't in our partnership agreement and I in fact DID want clients who used Shopify to find my business. (I am in the e-commerce space selling a product that works for many marketplaces including Shopify). Just…
This has been the case for years. You weren’t allowed to bid on any search terms related to Shopify on Google Ads. Lots of Partners did though.