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Whatever you do, don't end up spending 6 months building something and miss out on 6 months of comission-free sales. Anything self-hosted is going to need a fa
by johnorourke 6y ago
Whatever you do, don't end up spending 6 months building something and miss out on 6 months of comission-free sales.
Anything self-hosted is going to need a fair bit of configuration and looking after - eg. even for the simplest of the them (Wordpress/Woocommerce), you'll need time to install and configure, updates come out ever few days, you'll have log files to monitor and keep tidy, a server to keep secure, etc. If you're doing 25-100 sales/day, do you have time for that? Wouldn't that time be better spent on increasing sales?
(depends on your goal obviously... is it to sell more? or have a fun toy to tinker with?)
There are shopify alternatives - eg. Freewebstore[1] is a small SaaS product run by a few developers.
[1] https://freewebstore.com/ https://freewebstore.com/