Around 2 years ago, I started building my own E-Commerce platform. It started out as a Shopify alternative and now, it's a whole different ball game. It has all

Around 2 years ago, I started building my own E-Commerce platform. It started out as a Shopify alternative and now, it's a whole different ball game. It has all the features of marketing automation from Marketo mixed with the backend interface of Amazon.com plus an inbuilt Mailchimp. This means, you can sell a mixture of digital and physical goods online. The whole thing started off as a side project while I was working as a consultant at the time, and now it's my full time job. The whole thing is hosted on Google Cloud, in particular AppEngine, so I don't need to worry about DevOps. I refuse to empower companies like MailChimp who treat their customers like shit. The good thing is, I don't need to pay any percentage of my sales to anyone and no one is holding my data hostage like Shopify - who take your money, take your data and ask you to pay more to access it (checkout how Shopify analytics works). I run a bunch of E-Commerce dropshipping businesses with this platform and it has served me well. I used Elixir/Phoenix/VueJS for my stack.