I've used Shopify a few times and it's clear they're trying to be an Apple for e e-commerce. Slick and easy set up with strong lock in and high fees.

As a result, I'll advise clients to use Shopify for a POC perhaps but then to put money aside to build their own system when they gain some traction. And I'm starting to wonder if there's a market for someone to build the Android equivalent of Shopify because this pisses me off royally. Especially when non-US customers pay the same fees but have less features for some unknown reason.

If Shopify want to do that they had better up their game other wise larger brands will just walk.

They need to start paying attention to core web vitals stat.

What do you recommend instead?

Commerce Layer has a business model with no revenue sharing: https://commercelayer.io/

I guess maybe you have some connection to Commerce Layer, because you've mentioned them here multiple times now. If you do, perhaps you'd like to tell them that I just visited their site and after a few minutes of reading, I still don't understand what they offer or why it might help me. The pages I saw were full of buzzwords and vague arguments, but had little substance: no high-level explanation of the scope of the product and what functionality it offers, no illustration of how the API works and where it would integrate with the rest of my system, no walk-throughs showing how to build different types of useful functionality with it, no case studies showing the benefits of switching to it. It was a frustrating experience, and they might like to do something about that.

(not related to parent) Excellent feedback! Thanks

Would there be a way to contact you to ask for feedback on another potential ecommerce product? (doesn't exist yet, so that's why there's no link). My email is in profile.

Sorry, I'm commenting pseudonymously, so helping that way would "out" me and potentially others. But if I come across your product on a forum like HN and it seems like constructive criticism might be welcome, maybe I or someone else will be able to give you some useful feedback then.

Incredible to hear this accent but also the fact that it's completely clear and comprehensible, if different sounding, than the modern Parisian accent!

What I found endearing about the guy being interviewed was that he would often start off his sentences with "Ahhhh".

Korea is a highly hierarchical, relationship-driven society on top of the extreme competition. It's increasingly a place where you need the perfect marks + the right family background + some starting money to get anywhere.

In practice, it's almost impossible to really climb in society and unfortunately this situation is describing more and more the US as well...