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I really hate Shopify checkout experience. It’s such a dumpster fire under load. Once a hot product drops the only people that can checkout are people that are using sophisticated scripts and bots.

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Interesting. I actually have kinda bad experience with writing some integration for Shopify. Mainly I was under the impression that they have to be good since they are so famous, but the developer experience is lacking.

For instance, they are migrating REST API to GraphQL so something can be done using their official Python client, while some other things can't.

I think it’s good if you are selling 1 or 2 items an hour. If you are trying to sell 1000 in 1 minute the checkout process does not queue well so bots skip ahead of real users

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