Re:My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech
by zelly on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:19AM
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> There are companies doing millions of dollars per day in sales on Shopify or similar platforms
To be fair, Shopify takes a huge cut, and retail margins can't afford that.
If I were them, I would have also made a homegrown e-commerce CRUD software as well.
BUT I would have used Django or Ruby-on-Rails. It would have been finished so much faster. And I'm not sure it would even be much slower than the Node/PHP solution.
The reason to make a greenfield solution is to plug in to the rest of your tech. It is easier to make it from scratch than to customize some third party e-commerce software. If you do not have any other software to plug in, and Shopify would actually fully meet your needs, then you should reconsider calling your idea a tech startup.
To be fair, Shopify takes a huge cut, and retail margins can't afford that.
If I were them, I would have also made a homegrown e-commerce CRUD software as well.
BUT I would have used Django or Ruby-on-Rails. It would have been finished so much faster. And I'm not sure it would even be much slower than the Node/PHP solution.
The reason to make a greenfield solution is to plug in to the rest of your tech. It is easier to make it from scratch than to customize some third party e-commerce software. If you do not have any other software to plug in, and Shopify would actually fully meet your needs, then you should reconsider calling your idea a tech startup.