Shopify

“We could already see this before with shopify, and DHH is part of that group.”

“Several sites that use Shopify for their stores now just don't accept any kind of a password.”

“AI redesigned a Shopify store then designed and launched Meta ads”

“Shopify also seems to be very solid and reliable”

“Shopify did not required the fraudster to confirm the email address to activate the account.”

“Shopify needs to maintain the AI narrative to maintain the illusion of easy shop creation.”

“It increasingly is getting network effects (Shop.app) and people are starting to become even more brand loyal than before.”

“where any non-technical person can open a store and sell things”

“best in class llm's with access to both knowledge of the company and your data (my fav so far is Shopify)”

“Their platform is bad, and has always been bad - at least from the perspective of managing a store”

“Reads like a Shopify ad. Just use their tool and you will be able to achieve financial independence.”

“I've sold close to $1B on Shopify in the last decade and have never had a problem with them.”

“for internal use it's like one TOML file, 3 lines of bash then copy-pasting a link.”

“Then Shopify unpublished those products too after Canon contacted them, claiming we were not allowed to sell them.”

“i have a lot of criticisms of shopify, but for the most part on the product side you can do whatever you want”

“Shopify was letting Kanye sells nazi merch, they don't give a crap for most things unless it's trademark issues.”

“I have much more freedom with Shopify, it's not even comparable.”

“they have my respect for the things I have seen, read and heard”

“terrible support, glitchy software, huge price hikes, and so on we aren't particularly happy with Shopify either”

“Doesn't have any pre approval process for products.”

“Shopify's AI implementation to be sane and really useful”

“much easier for small businesses that ship to have an online store thanks to Shopify”

“If your business is just ecommerce and you can use Shopify instead, sure, do that.”

“Ruby/Rails powers some of the largest platforms on the planet - Shopify, GitHub, GitLab”

“They only allow 5 email addresses to be bound to an account and only one account to one phone number”

“focus on the store part of the business, not the SQLite part”

“The store runs on Shopify with Track123 for order tracking”

“There is now platforms that make it as easy as social media sites. wordpress shopify etc”

“they can use Wix or Shopify or something like this”

“props to shopify/shop pay - they've been very quick to kill these kind of scams on their platform”

“this means getting into non sexy things - i.e ecosystem e.g PHP / Wordpress / Shopify etc”

“Instead of Amazon et al controlling discovery, you risk ending up with Google and Shopify doing it through AI-driven interfaces.”

“But the backend is nowhere near as good as shopify”

“I support platforms like Shopify and Wix because they empower 80% of independent merchants to exist online”

“And the minute you need a little more, then Shopify is quite a good option.”

“you'd be likely better off with Squarespace or Shopify until your business outgrows those platforms”

“Paying LearnWorlds + Shopify $30K a year, if it were even that extreme, is cheaper than an engineer”

“Move to Shopify and LearnWorlds. Integrate the two.”

“sometimes I question the decision over a simple hosted shop subdomain”

“there's woocomerce, shopify, FB marketplace. All dirt cheap and fast.”