Shopify
Reddit take
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Pros
- You’d be surprised how many small businesses pay for services such as having someone set up a Shopify storefront for them
- Shopify seems like a good choice for ecommerce for that exact reason.
- I really enjoy working with Shopify, even if it does lack some features which I believe should come as standard.
- They said "oh, a Shopify storefront for about one hundred products, marketing funnel site with some videos, and about a dozen landing pages for specific product families."
Cons
- Shopify and their awful ads. I just can’t believe they are effective since the ads are so cringe
- Over that time I’ve watched Squarespace, Wix, Shopify, etc. basically wipe out most of my small business clients. People I used to work with now just pay for a SaaS site and feel like it is “good enough” and cheaper, even if the quality...
- We've hit diminishing returns, there's no need to rebuild every 3 years to keep up with the competition any more despite what shopify may tell you.
- But all the small businesses are still just running WordPress and Shopify.
- Personally I’m so happy to NOT being doing web dev and design anymore (especially shoplify, Wordpress etc) as it attracts too many of the tech bro entrepreneurs, who personally I’ve never liked , 95% of them are dickheads.
Sentiment
4 positive (33%) · 3 mixed (25%) · 5 negative (42%)
Trust + time weighted score: -8% · raw score -8%
What redditors said (10 of 12)
Shopify and their awful ads. I just can’t believe they are effective since the ads are so cringe
You’d be surprised how many small businesses pay for services such as having someone set up a Shopify storefront for them
Over that time I’ve watched Squarespace, Wix, Shopify, etc. basically wipe out most of my small business clients. People I used to work with now just pay for a SaaS site and feel like it is “good enough” and cheaper, even if the quality is worse.
Shopify seems like a good choice for ecommerce for that exact reason.
I really enjoy working with Shopify, even if it does lack some features which I believe should come as standard.
We've hit diminishing returns, there's no need to rebuild every 3 years to keep up with the competition any more despite what shopify may tell you.
But all the small businesses are still just running WordPress and Shopify.
Personally I’m so happy to NOT being doing web dev and design anymore (especially shoplify, Wordpress etc) as it attracts too many of the tech bro entrepreneurs, who personally I’ve never liked , 95% of them are dickheads.
I am a Shopify developer and this space is just getting worse with the amount of tech bros, entitled entrepreneurs, start-ups/exploitative brands.
Shopify, in many respects, is a wonderful platform for those of us who need to offer e-commerce solutions to our clients. However, recent reports show us that its leaders have been caught multiple times supporting recognised problematic political figures and groups.