Tweet by thdxr

May 25, 2025

every few months i consider moving terminal to shopify on the backend it's normally how i'd do things - it's dumb to recreate the infinite pool of e-commerce functionality but whenever i go to look at it, it's clear that we're just a little too weird to properly work in their system without a ton of hacks/plugins i want something lightweight and modular - so i think hm is there an opportunity to build this? the answer is no - they built in order of demand and if my use case does not fit their product, it's probably pretty uncommon it's old software and it doesn't feel great to use - but even then there's no opportunity are you really going to spend the next 10 years trying to keep yourself afloat building the massive set of features to replace shopify? you think maybe there's some small slice of features that'll work for some customers but it's always still a big list so we're kind of forever stuck with these things until there's some major paradigm shift that opens up an angle of attack

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thdxr
Date
May 25, 2025
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