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It's funny, I sent them an email long long long time ago asking if there was some way to source all products on Shopify so I could build just this. Maybe they

It's funny, I sent them an email long long long time ago asking if there was some way to source all products on Shopify so I could build just this. Maybe they noted it and turned it into a product.

justusthane 4y ago
No offense intended, but I doubt it. It is a good idea, but it's also an obvious idea.
- jhenkens 4y ago
  This reminds me of my number one response when "friends" come to me with startup ideas. Your company is another company's feature. As in, you are trying to build a business, on something that is an afterthought, tiny feature for an existing company to add.
  - mooreds 4y ago
    This comment reminds me of this post with discusses the feature -> product -> company evolution: https://medium.com/@sethlevine/the-feature-product-company-continuum-2e2db1af3598 https://medium.com/@sethlevine/the-feature-product-company-c...
  - stavros 4y ago
    What company isn't? My problem with this is that I can't think of a company that started as anything other than a missing feature.
    - ipaddr 4y ago
      Start with a bigger idea. Shopify isn't a missing feature. Why not take them on?
      - stavros 4y ago
        Showing the store is certainly a trivially missing feature of Amazon's.
        burke 4y ago
        Shopify has been around for a while—since before Amazon became the everything-retailer that they are now. It started out of frustration at the myriad annoyances in trying to get set up using osCommerce and other tools of that generation. (Disclaimer: employee)
- thedangler 4y ago
  None taken.
lancesells 4y ago
I think an even better solution would be a curated search. Like Amazon there are plenty of dropshipping low quality stores / products on Shopify. I would like someone to build out a search of the best 500 stores.
- cameronpm 4y ago
  Shop app has a bunch of curated search areas in it, I would check it out!
  - wingworks 4y ago
    I had a look, #1 there doesn't seem to be a search option (maybe not public to all yet?). #2 I had a look at some of the stores shown in the "search" icon tab, aka explore, but how am I meant to find out if something is just a dropshipping product from ali, marked up at 400% or a genuine, good quality product, worth spending $40 on. (the one I saw, could well have gone fro $4 on ali) That, and I hope this arrives on desktop, I dislike shopping on mobile, makes it hard to compare and verify a product isn't cramp from ali.

It's funny, I sent them an email long long long time ago asking if there was some way to source all products on Shopify so I could build just this. Maybe they noted it and turned it into a product.

justusthane 4y ago

No offense intended, but I doubt it. It is a good idea, but it's also an obvious idea.

jhenkens 4y ago
This reminds me of my number one response when "friends" come to me with startup ideas. Your company is another company's feature. As in, you are trying to build a business, on something that is an afterthought, tiny feature for an existing company to add.
- mooreds 4y ago
  This comment reminds me of this post with discusses the feature -> product -> company evolution: https://medium.com/@sethlevine/the-feature-product-company-continuum-2e2db1af3598 https://medium.com/@sethlevine/the-feature-product-company-c...
- stavros 4y ago
  What company isn't? My problem with this is that I can't think of a company that started as anything other than a missing feature.
  - ipaddr 4y ago
    Start with a bigger idea. Shopify isn't a missing feature. Why not take them on?
    - stavros 4y ago
      Showing the store is certainly a trivially missing feature of Amazon's.
      - burke 4y ago
        Shopify has been around for a while—since before Amazon became the everything-retailer that they are now. It started out of frustration at the myriad annoyances in trying to get set up using osCommerce and other tools of that generation. (Disclaimer: employee)
thedangler 4y ago
None taken.

lancesells 4y ago

I think an even better solution would be a curated search. Like Amazon there are plenty of dropshipping low quality stores / products on Shopify. I would like someone to build out a search of the best 500 stores.

cameronpm 4y ago
Shop app has a bunch of curated search areas in it, I would check it out!
- wingworks 4y ago
  I had a look, #1 there doesn't seem to be a search option (maybe not public to all yet?). #2 I had a look at some of the stores shown in the "search" icon tab, aka explore, but how am I meant to find out if something is just a dropshipping product from ali, marked up at 400% or a genuine, good quality product, worth spending $40 on. (the one I saw, could well have gone fro $4 on ali) That, and I hope this arrives on desktop, I dislike shopping on mobile, makes it hard to compare and verify a product isn't cramp from ali.