- Ruby on Rails
- VueJS for the store. Just the part where I render the products
- PostgreSQL
- Bulma CSS
- PostgreSQL
- DigitalOcean
- Cloudflare
Two important JS libraries from Shopify:
- Shopify BuyButton.js for the product modal, cart and checkout
- Shopify JavaScript Buy SDK for product pagination
Some small businesses don't require a full online store. I'm putting my wife as an example. I agree that $15/month savings is not a big deal, but overtime, it will be. I also noticed that most customers don't care about how the site looks, as long as it's functional and they can do their purchase.
$15/month savings can be spent in FB/Instagram ads or something that can drive more customers. In 3 months, you save $45 or $180/year.
I'm also planning allow users to add multiple stores. The site is hosted in DO and can scale up easily.
True. There are a few comments here about improving the landing page. I need to put more context into it and explain what it does and the value for the users. Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it. :-)
That's right. You will end up having a bill of $14/month in total instead of $29 for the basic plan. TinyStore doesn't offer much customization atm. You can add pages, announcement banner, logo and social handles. With more feedback from users, I can improve the store with more features in the future.
I've used WooCommerce before for my wife's online store. I hosted it in DO. It's okay, but not as good as Shopify in terms of payments, inventory management etc. I also ended up having to install a lot of plugins which most of it are in trial.
Thanks for the feedback. There's a lot of good feedback here that will make my weekend busy.
My wife is a good example where she doesn't need a fancy storefront. She gets her customers from Instagram/Facebook. She only needs a super basic/low-end storefront for her customers to do their purchase.
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. - 100% agree.
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