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I can say as an employee for a dev agency that has historically specialized in e-commerce, we’ve seen a massive increase in work since this all started. Our cli

I can say as an employee for a dev agency that has historically specialized in e-commerce, we’ve seen a massive increase in work since this all started. Our clients are all selling more which means they need to scale more and we’re getting paid to make optimizations to balance infrastructure costs due to demand. Shopify has said they’re serving Black Friday levels of traffic and volume every day since this started and our clientele on their platform supports that data point. Depending on how the next 6 weeks goes for “opening up” around the world, it will be interesting to see how much of this increased demand sticks around. As someone who advocates for owning your own data, I think it’s a good thing to move away from these larger platforms when you can. Going from amazon to Shopify is a good step. When you need more customization or data control, WooCommerce is a decent choice given the unlimited flexibility of the platform (though this comes with downsides if you are not aware how to run it in a way that is performant).

ashtonkem 6y ago
The demand won’t remain permanently this high, but a lot of it will remain. Despite the cultural ubiquity of Amazon, not everyone was getting items delivered for their day to day needs. One barrier is that not everyone got around to creating accounts for online shopping, a barrier that’s been forcibly overcome for basically everyone. The chances of 100% of those people reverting to prior behavior is very, very low.
Izkata 6y ago
> Going from amazon to Shopify is a good step. [..] WooCommerce is a decent choice given the unlimited flexibility of the platform Just took a look at both those sites, and on the consumer side I don't see how these are even remotely comparable: I don't see any way to search for products. They seem geared to creating independent stores that must be linked to from some other location.
- exolymph 6y ago
  > on the consumer side I don't see how these are even remotely comparable Consumer side isn't relevant here. These are two backend ecommerce platforms. The platform part doesn't extend to anything that consumers know they're interacting with.

ashtonkem 6y ago

The demand won’t remain permanently this high, but a lot of it will remain. Despite the cultural ubiquity of Amazon, not everyone was getting items delivered for their day to day needs. One barrier is that not everyone got around to creating accounts for online shopping, a barrier that’s been forcibly overcome for basically everyone. The chances of 100% of those people reverting to prior behavior is very, very low.

Izkata 6y ago

> Going from amazon to Shopify is a good step. [..] WooCommerce is a decent choice given the unlimited flexibility of the platform Just took a look at both those sites, and on the consumer side I don't see how these are even remotely comparable: I don't see any way to search for products. They seem geared to creating independent stores that must be linked to from some other location.

exolymph 6y ago
> on the consumer side I don't see how these are even remotely comparable Consumer side isn't relevant here. These are two backend ecommerce platforms. The platform part doesn't extend to anything that consumers know they're interacting with.