gavinballard
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Comment · 2 years ago
Recurring order functionality is typically delegated to a third party app in Shopify land; the two biggest incumbents in this space have pretty ordinary UX so it’s likely you were looking at one of those.
More recent entrants in the market do a much better job on this front.
Comment · 3 years ago
There is a great company here in Australia (https://greatwrap.com.au) already doing this at decent scale with potato waste. Their manufacturing costs are on par with traditional plastic wrap.
Comment · 4 years ago
Disco Labs | Senior Backend Engineer | Melbourne, Australia or Remote within Australia | https://www.discolabs.com
We write software that powers commerce for hundreds of merchants across the world, including some of the biggest brands on the Shopify platform. Our core product is Submarine, a platform for building bespoke customer experiences around subscriptions, memberships, pre-sales, crowdfunding and more.
Our vision is to build Submarine into a core piece of the world’s global ecommerce infrastructure while helping thousands of businesses flourish along the way – and do it all as part of people-first company built on trust, innovation and excellence.
Engineers joining us at this early stage will have the opportunity to shape and build out our product from its early stages in collaboration with our engineering, product, delivery and customer support teams. We’re still a small company, so it’s a great opportunity to have an outsized impact while still knowing everyone’s name (and their pet’s name, too).
We primarily use Ruby in our stack, but language isn't the most important factor to us in finding the right candidate.
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Comment · 6 years ago
Yes! I don’t really get the jump from using the GraphQL API to “this can only be used by small players” when it’s empirically not.
That article is absolutely bang on, We Make Websites is one of the best in the business when it comes to Shopify.
Disclaimer: my company has worked with WMW on a number of projects, including Hasbro (which last time I checked weren’t particularly “mom and pop”).
Comment · 6 years ago
I strongly disagree that Shopify is only good for "companies with few SKUs or mom-pop kind of stores". Perhaps that's where they started out, but their Plus offering is very solid these days and provides a good platform for retailers of all sizes.
I run an agency that's highly specialised in Shopify, so obviously I have a dog in the fight, but as someone who's recently helped migrate a business with ~$6b/year in revenue to Shopify I think it's time to retire that particular misconception.
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't think this is true - I believe it's only their merchandise store that's on Shopify. Car purchases are done through their own, custom platform.
That said, there are definitely plenty of huge merchants running on Shopify turning over hundreds of millions of dollars through the platform - we work with quite a few of them.
Comment · 10 years ago
This is awesome, thanks for sharing!
I'll dive into the implementation a little more shortly, but just wondering how easy it is to add additional constraints (for example, that pieces need particular orientations)?
Edit: Oh, I see there's a "Part Rotations" parameter. Excellent!
Comment · 11 years ago
Australia does this through the use of "franking credits" attached to dividends.
Comment · 11 years ago
As someone who has built a comfortably profitable business focused purely on Shopify-related products and services, I agree that it's a great market to be in.
I understand and can relate to some of the hardships the sibling throwaway comment is referring to, but I feel you're going to face challenges whatever you do when building a business, and this is simply one that I'm comfortable with choosing.
Comment · 11 years ago
RailsLTS (https://railslts.com/) is probably the product you're referring to in (2).
Comment · 11 years ago
> Thanks for the excellent resources, I'll look that up.
You're welcome!
> Well, I haven't even created the paid product at this point, it's still early in the game. Just trying to get a feel for the potentials.
Sure, but you're at the top of Hacker News right now and there's zero downside (and lots of upside) in getting your project in front of a bunch of developers. Even if they don't start using it right away, maybe it will stick in their minds and then six months down the track (when you do have a paid version) they'll Google it.
Comment · 11 years ago
Mike Perham has done a great job of turning two successful open source projects (Sidekiq and Inspeqtor) into successful businesses.
If you're interested, I recommend listening to his interviews on the ChangeLog Podcast (https://changelog.com/159/, https://changelog.com/130/, https://changelog.com/92/) where he talks about how he monetised those products.
I'm pretty sure that succeeding in this is not going to be a matter of how many "stars" your project has, but rather a function of the dollar value of the problem your software solves and how well you market the paid product. You should start that marketing now by providing a link to your project :).
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