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Shopify is fine. They have a nice eco-system of devs and integrated apps. Gumroad should be worried.

by zyang 5y ago

throxwaway98123 5y ago
Shopify is fine is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. Shopify is the 2008 equivalent in the tech world. Hugely overvalued, no secret sauce (pretty web fronts that are powered by stripe) Shopifys moat is nonexistent.
- dangrossman 5y ago
  Shopify's moat is its ecosystem of developers and apps, for many of the same reasons WordPress still powers 39.5% of all websites in 2021. Shop Pay also provides many of the same benefits of Stripe -- global one-click payment across all their stores and more. I run into Shopify sites while shopping all the time and am always pleasantly surprised that I don't have to fill out anything to check out, it already knows me. Then those orders magically show up in the Shop app on my phone for order status and delivery tracking. Here's a screenshot. I did not make an account with any of these completely independent websites. Yet I checked out on all of them without typing my address or payment info. And all my orders appear here with tracking. https://i.imgur.com/D4XfvnJ.png https://i.imgur.com/D4XfvnJ.png
  - throxwaway98123 5y ago
    Wordpress is a free product. Shopify is not. Shopify built a good ecom cms and they’ll be right for some companies, but they’ve also cornered themselves as that company that makes ecom software. Remember Shopify POS? Me either. Anyways, consumer trends change. The way people buy online will change. There’s a future where ecom websites are basically the back catalogue of the future.
    - thebean11 5y ago
      Shopify is $29 per month on the cheapest plan. That's not going to make or break anyone's online store.
- mod 5y ago
  I sort of agree with some of your points, but I think you're ignoring what shopify is actually good at. It is one more software offering that lets you build a store online. You can have a store up in an hour or something. You don't have to integrate software from various places. It's a one stop shop. That's worth a fair amount. I'm a web dev, and I've still chosen shopify in the past for side projects. I didn't want the headache of my own stack. They have competitors, sure, but they're a solid option in the space.

Shopify is fine. They have a nice eco-system of devs and integrated apps. Gumroad should be worried.

by zyang 5y ago

Shopify is fine. They have a nice eco-system of devs and integrated apps. Gumroad should be worried.

Shopify is fine is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. Shopify is the 2008 equivalent in the tech world. Hugely overvalued, no secret sauce (pretty web fronts that are powered by stripe) Shopifys moat is nonexistent.

dangrossman 5y ago
Shopify's moat is its ecosystem of developers and apps, for many of the same reasons WordPress still powers 39.5% of all websites in 2021. Shop Pay also provides many of the same benefits of Stripe -- global one-click payment across all their stores and more. I run into Shopify sites while shopping all the time and am always pleasantly surprised that I don't have to fill out anything to check out, it already knows me. Then those orders magically show up in the Shop app on my phone for order status and delivery tracking. Here's a screenshot. I did not make an account with any of these completely independent websites. Yet I checked out on all of them without typing my address or payment info. And all my orders appear here with tracking. https://i.imgur.com/D4XfvnJ.png https://i.imgur.com/D4XfvnJ.png
- throxwaway98123 5y ago
  Wordpress is a free product. Shopify is not. Shopify built a good ecom cms and they’ll be right for some companies, but they’ve also cornered themselves as that company that makes ecom software. Remember Shopify POS? Me either. Anyways, consumer trends change. The way people buy online will change. There’s a future where ecom websites are basically the back catalogue of the future.
  - thebean11 5y ago
    Shopify is $29 per month on the cheapest plan. That's not going to make or break anyone's online store.
mod 5y ago
I sort of agree with some of your points, but I think you're ignoring what shopify is actually good at. It is one more software offering that lets you build a store online. You can have a store up in an hour or something. You don't have to integrate software from various places. It's a one stop shop. That's worth a fair amount. I'm a web dev, and I've still chosen shopify in the past for side projects. I didn't want the headache of my own stack. They have competitors, sure, but they're a solid option in the space.