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I made a simple web app for merchants/small businesses who use Shopify Lite Plan and want to have a simple/minimal storefront.

I built this initially for my wife. She owns two online stores in Shopify. With her Lite plan, she only pays $9/month/store versus the Basic plan for $29/month/store. Since the Lite plan doesn't include an online store, TinyStore allows merchants to have one.

The app is still new. I appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!

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If there's one thing I'd suggest, it would be putting a blurb something like the above on your website as well - as someone with 0 contextual information about Shopify, there was no obvious problem the application was solving, even after reading the FAQ.

Agreed - saying something like "Having a storefront on Shopify would normally cost you an extra $20/month. TinyStore does this for $5/month." would sell pretty well I'd assume.

Exactly this, didn't know that Shopify had a headless mode that does not include the storefront, so the question was: why not using the default Shopify storefront?

Same here. Shopify's landing page for Lite says "Shopify gives you everything you need for just $9 USD per month" - so I couldn't figure out what this was for.

Lite not having a storefront should be front and center on OP's page.

If this is meant to be used with Shopify, why would someone w/zero contextual information on such would even be interested?

Because they thought Shopify would not be interesting for them, or maybe just because they bumped into TinyStore first?

In my case it's because my mum runs her own store on some shopping platform and I was thinking it might be worth suggesting.

Surprised I haven't seen a comment about this yet - there doesn't seem to be a way to link to or share individual products?

I've tried clicking on products from a few places and it always seems to show in a modal (with no pushState, FF 89).

Clicking a product scrolls to the top of the page, it's quite annoying.

I noticed that as well. Should be an easy fix. :-) Thanks.

Great use of Bulma ;-)

Thanks. It's 99% Bulma defaults.

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