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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by hapiben on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:37AM (#27182000)
I made a simple web app for merchants/small businesses who use Shopify Lite Plan and want to have a simple/minimal storefront.

I built this initially for my wife. She owns two online stores in Shopify. With her Lite plan, she only pays $9/month/store versus the Basic plan for $29/month/store. Since the Lite plan doesn't include an online store, TinyStore allows merchants to have one.

The app is still new. I appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by InvertedRhodium on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:22AM (#27182237)
If there's one thing I'd suggest, it would be putting a blurb something like the above on your website as well - as someone with 0 contextual information about Shopify, there was no obvious problem the application was solving, even after reading the FAQ.
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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by jordanmoconnor on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:59AM (#27182470)
Agreed - saying something like "Having a storefront on Shopify would normally cost you an extra $20/month. TinyStore does this for $5/month." would sell pretty well I'd assume.
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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by pantulis on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:16AM (#27183031)
Exactly this, didn't know that Shopify had a headless mode that does not include the storefront, so the question was: why not using the default Shopify storefront?
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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by perk on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:27AM (#27183122)
Same here. Shopify's landing page for Lite says "Shopify gives you everything you need for just $9 USD per month" - so I couldn't figure out what this was for.

Lite not having a storefront should be front and center on OP's page.

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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by netfortius on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:25AM (#27182264)
If this is meant to be used with Shopify, why would someone w/zero contextual information on such would even be interested?
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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by rapnie on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:36AM (#27182330)
Because they thought Shopify would not be interesting for them, or maybe just because they bumped into TinyStore first?
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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by InvertedRhodium on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:03AM (#27191411)
In my case it's because my mum runs her own store on some shopping platform and I was thinking it might be worth suggesting.
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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by 0x62 on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:23AM (#27183093)
Surprised I haven't seen a comment about this yet - there doesn't seem to be a way to link to or share individual products?

I've tried clicking on products from a few places and it always seems to show in a modal (with no pushState, FF 89).

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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by jonny_eh on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:34PM (#27188106)
Clicking a product scrolls to the top of the page, it's quite annoying.
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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by hapiben on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:05PM (#27188990)
I noticed that as well. Should be an easy fix. :-) Thanks.
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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by bbx on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:24AM (#27182638)
Great use of Bulma ;-)
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Re:Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lit... by hapiben on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:59AM (#27182892)
Thanks. It's 99% Bulma defaults.
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