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What would the benefits be for this compared to Magento or Shopify?

• kaishiro 7y ago
  Hey sarora27, Magento is certainly more of a monolith - so if you're building a Magento site you're very much building a Magento site. Shopify is similar in some respects, although their headless offering has certainly opened the doors up a bit. The real benefit at the moment is that you can get Commerce running with the site you already have - you don't need to replatform in order to start selling things. Additionally, the cart is entirely real time - so a user can go from their laptop to their phone without needing to refresh the page to see any changes to the cart. Finally, the core of the cart is vanilla JS - so there is no inherent need to use React/Vue/(enter JS framework here) - although you certainly can by hooking directly into the API if that's where your tooling is at. It's also ready to rock for static websites - no backend required - that was the initial drive for the product itself and it's grown from there.
  • sarora27 7y ago
    This makes alot of sense. I think you're on to something. (Disclaimer: I worked for Magento and on a team responsible for turning the Magento monolith into a suite of microservices). Are you targeting any key segments, use case, or GMV merchant-wise? Happy to share what I know if it would be relevant. Feel free to DM!
    • kaishiro 7y ago
      Awesome, appreciate it. I'm @kaishir0 over on Twitter and the rest of my comms are in my HN profile. Would love to chat sometime.