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This looks cool and useful, but I think you're advertising it from the wrong angle. Here's some unsolicited advice which you can take or ignore. Source: Former
by spcebar 2y ago
This looks cool and useful, but I think you're advertising it from the wrong angle. Here's some unsolicited advice which you can take or ignore. Source: Former ecommerce developer at a fancy agency that worked for companies of vastly differing sizes.
The pain point for Shopify, in my experience hasn't been price. If you're someone who can afford to spend 360 development hours making a storefront, either you're someone who can afford to pay Shopify's prices or you're budgeting your time horribly. You don't spend that time or money if you're looking for a landing page, you spend it because you're a brand with specific visual and functionality requirements. This isn't the segment you're in competition with because this segment doesn't care about spending a thousand dollars, and they're always going to go with a tested, mature technology, which in ecommerce might be Shopify.
The issue those companies have with Shopify is that their requirements are often too specific for what Shopify will let them do, ie, you can't change the selling logic to accommodate their business rules. I saw this with clients who wanted to do things like 1. Sell bundles 2. Sell subscriptions 3. Have complicated sales 4. Have conditional shipping logic for different locations 5. Have conditional content by location for regulatory purposes. You're not competing with the people looking to answer that question because the purpose of your tool is to do the work for you. You're never going to be able to satisfy these complex requirements when the purpose of the tool is to minimize complexity.
Stepping back. Who is your target audience? Someone who cares about No Code? Is that person comfortable using Github Pages? Do they know what Git is? Do they know what 'deployment' is, in this context? Do they know what SSL or CDN means? I think the answer to all of those questions, from experience working in the ecommerce world, is no.
Shopify is not the right ecommerce platform to compare yourself to. If your technologically capable enough to use GitPage and $1000 for Shopify is too much for your business, you're not looking at Shopify to begin with.
Do some research and look at what the user that is technologically capable enough to use this tool would reach for besides Shopify. It might be a free product. Why is your free product better than their free product? I can think of 100 reasons GitPage is better than Magento. Sell a user on that. Magento and WooCommerce would be good places to start.