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I consider Shopify a website builder, but I can't export my website to other hosting services.
by seibelj 6y ago
I consider Shopify a website builder, but I can't export my website to other hosting services.
- leviathant 6y agoYou could use their APIs to pull your product catalog out, but IIRC their terms of service says that's not allowed if you're migrating to another system. l.o.l.
- migueloller 6y agoYeah, you can't do that right now. But we do have plans to support self-hosting. We believe it will be table stakes for various customers. We're a small team of 5 right now, though, and decided to focus on the core experience right now.
- OJFord 6y agoBit confused reading this, thread was talking about Shopify. (Other confused readers: parent's profile says they work at Makeswift, the site builder in OP.)
- migueloller 6y agoI mistakenly replied to the incorrect thread hah. Sorry for the confusion!
- detritus 6y agoGood point, although Shopify does solve a very specific problem that's beyond the realm of basic front-end HTML sites. Although Shopify does allow you to export your webite too - it just won't be able to do very much used elsewhere, without the Liquid-supporting back-end! :)
- dntrkv 6y agoAlso Wix, Squarespace, and Weebly. I didn't realize that all these services are actually presentations and not websites. Whatever that means. The value of a tool like this without the backend and infrastructure is minimal. If you need to setup your own host and generate new HTML/CSS every time you'd like to update the site, the market for this product drops close to zero.
- noja 6y agoShopify has a Shopify website builder.