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11 votes
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Do you think that Shopify could soon rival Amazon?
Notice: This has been cross-posted to another website, and re-worded I currently work in the eCommerce industry, and have hands-on experience building up a Shopify site from the ground up. As I...
Notice: This has been cross-posted to another website, and re-worded
I currently work in the eCommerce industry, and have hands-on experience building up a Shopify site from the ground up. As I watch all of the developments that Shopify makes both from a technical development standpoint and logistical standpoint, it becomes more and more clear to me that Shopify can begin to take on Amazon directly.
The introduction of Shop app, which aggregates all shipments into a single application including those outside of Amazon, also allows users to browse products from any particular Shopify store. The app also notifies you of any shipping updates, and when packages have been delivered.
From a technical standpoint, Shopify's main attractions come down to a few things: order management, credit card processing, customer management, and plugin integrations. This is the core of Shopify's platform for both larger and smaller businesses. Though due to Shopify's requirement of using their CMS to serve your content, enterprise users have to look elsewhere in order to build something called "headless builds", which essentially use alternate CMS mixed with Shopify's CMS to continue serving their content.
There are a few companies that make such software in order to build out a fully custom site while still using the Shopify platform as its core, though at the moment they are a little 'hacky' but still fully functional. Given the interest in Shopify's platform at such a high level, they are very likely working on their own headless framework which could allow for 1) mainstream stores to integrate their existing platforms into a unified Shopify marketplace, and 2) to allow stores to build out fully custom websites using the Shopify platform at its core and also enroll them into a unified Shopify marketplace.
Amazon has mostly become a front for cheap Chinese-made products, laden with review manipulation and questionable product quality. By instead bringing large brands on board with a unified Shopify marketplace, those stores can sell quality products backed by their brands which can gain trust from customers, and will give rise to smaller brands that may have been unnoticed by larger populations.
[ For example, I recently bought a pair of shoes from a very popular Shopify store: they represent quality, comfort, and eco-friendliness. I personally find myself more willing to spend money on quality products from companies I know I can trust. ]What's everyone's thoughts? Are there any general problems that could come from Shopify trying to jump-start a full-blown marketplace? Do you think that companies would be willing to integrate their ERP's and CMS's with whatever API's or headless framework Shopify decides to build out?
9 votes -
Chris Pine to star in ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ movie
6 votes -
Electronic Arts reaches agreement for recommended acquisition of British racing game developer Codemasters for approximately $1.2 billion
8 votes -
EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
6 votes -
Yawning Man - Live at Giant Rock (2020)
4 votes -
Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta
21 votes -
Are Black people more homophobic than white people? Crunching the numbers on Black people's views of gay people
9 votes -
Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase - December 15, 2020
6 votes -
Companies often want to keep loyal employees when their jobs change or go away. Here are some effective ways to move people onto a new career path.
4 votes -
FTC issues orders to Amazon, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube seeking data about practices related to personal information, advertising, and user engagement
29 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
3 votes -
Fischerspooner - Emerge (2001)
3 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
14 votes -
The presence prison
7 votes -
Those who are not planning on getting a COVID-19 vaccine, what are your reasons?
From my understanding, even the usual allergies to like the trace egg proteins of typical influenza vaccines (not some of the ultrapure, though) don't apply to the new mRNA vaccines. So all that's...
From my understanding, even the usual allergies to like the trace egg proteins of typical influenza vaccines (not some of the ultrapure, though) don't apply to the new mRNA vaccines. So all that's left, aside from some immune disorder I think, there are only personal reason left and I'm curious as to what those are.
26 votes -
Michigan man jailed for nearly four decades exonerated after witness admits to lying
12 votes -
Wooden buildings that won’t burn
5 votes -
Collapsible comments vs. spoiler tags
Just noticed that the contents of expandable comments are automatically shown in the one-line summary when comments are collapsed; see here. Considering we often use them for spoiler comments,...
Just noticed that the contents of expandable comments are automatically shown in the one-line summary when comments are collapsed; see here. Considering we often use them for spoiler comments, maybe this warrants changing this behavior? Or at the least it adds to the case for implementing dedicated spoiler tags within comments.
7 votes -
Calculus explained and illustrated
6 votes -
Day 14: Docking Data
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9 votes -
Netflix didn’t disrupt Hollywood, Hollywood disrupted Netflix
7 votes -
MILCK - Somebody's Beloved (feat. Bipolar Sunshine) (2020)
3 votes -
Mother Sauces Ep12 (series finale) : I had to rewrite Wikipedia's Sauce article. Hollandaise is a fraud and Mayo is not who you think it is.
5 votes -
US Electoral College affirms Joe Biden’s victory
25 votes -
Ween - She Caught My Fancy (2000)
5 votes -
Parcels - Live Vol. 1 (2020)
7 votes -
Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
12 votes -
What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
5 votes -
Effective Scala
5 votes -
MDN Web Docs has switched over to its new platform, where the content is now maintained through a GitHub repository
4 votes -
Tomorrow’s World: Office of the Future (1969)
7 votes -
Apple launches new App Store privacy labels so you can see how iOS apps use your data
6 votes -
FSB team of chemical weapon experts implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok poisoning
13 votes -
Reddit buys TikTok rival Dubsmash
19 votes -
Whose bug is this anyway?
7 votes -
Day 10: Adapter Array
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/10 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
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14 votes -
Laurel - Appetite (2020)
3 votes -
Harry Potter vs Luke Skywalker | Epic Rap Battles Of History
13 votes -
Widespread malware campaign seeks to silently inject ads into search results, affects multiple browsers
18 votes -
Is there any way to estimate how many people in a region currently have coronavirus?
I've always wanted to be able to run probabilities when considering doing something that could infect me with coronavirus. I know how many people test positive, how many are dying and how many are...
I've always wanted to be able to run probabilities when considering doing something that could infect me with coronavirus. I know how many people test positive, how many are dying and how many are getting tested. But what I really want to know is what are the odds that a mask-less interaction with one person will infect me.
12 votes -
US Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government
20 votes -
That Downfall scene explained: What is Hitler freaking out about?
8 votes -
What issues or aspects of life are largely one's personal responsibility to deal with?
Asked mainly because Conservatives say that's one of the things they believe in It often seems to be wrong or misused ("if everyone just used masks and stayed home the pandemic would have ended...
Asked mainly because
Conservatives say that's one of the things they believe in
It often seems to be wrong or misused ("if everyone just used masks and stayed home the pandemic would have ended long ago") ("not using masks during a pandemic has consequences for other people and thus doesn't belong in personal freedom")
A definition for stuff that fits the question could be this:
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The credit or blame for consistently failing or succeding at it is largely on you
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While you can ask for advice to get better, you have to do it yourself
So the main examples that come to my mind are largely (well) personal:
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Being motivated and committed to work towards what you want
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Being hygienic
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Being good at socializing and figuring out what's your relationship with other people gonna be
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(although obviously, given socializing depends on other people, this is very dependent on them doing the same and accepting/recognizing you or your choices and so is more accurate on progressive or apolitical social environments)
Which is good but doesn't explain it being used as a political belief.
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Day 13: Shuttle Search
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11 votes -
One of Australia's most famous beaches at Byron Bay is disappearing, and storms aren't to blame. So what's the problem?
7 votes -
Luxtorpeda: Suite of unofficial Steam Play compatibility tools for retro games
11 votes -
Small tech
6 votes -
Precursor’s Custom PCBs
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Cyberpunk 2077: What do you think?
As anyone who's spent any amount of time on any gaming forum would know, Cyberpunk 2077 was easily the most hyped game in the past year, if not the past few. Expectations were impossibly large:...
As anyone who's spent any amount of time on any gaming forum would know, Cyberpunk 2077 was easily the most hyped game in the past year, if not the past few. Expectations were impossibly large: fanatics expected the immersiveness of Red Dead Redemption 2, the map detail of GTA V, and the density of a Yakuza game.
Now that Cyberpunk 2077 has been available to the public for ~1 day, what are your impressions? Does it live up to the hype? Do the bugs detract too greatly from the experience? Is it revolutionary in some sense; or is it the inevitable cumulation of open world RPGs, excellent but ultimately derivative?
For perspective, would you consider it a personal contender for game of the year?
23 votes