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Shopify built a good ecom cms and they’ll be right for some companies, but they’ve also cornered themselves as that company that makes ecom software. Remember Shopify POS? Me either.
Anyways, consumer trends change. The way people buy online will change. There’s a future where ecom websites are basically the back catalogue of the future.
The things this will enable are endless.
This is truly headless e-commerce.
Shopifys success is largely due to the fact that they were willing to do the messy dirty work of making a Ecom CMS that works and doesn’t run on Wordpress.
Tech has changed and is catching up. With stripe handling the hardest part about ecom, other companies will sneak up behind Shopify because of better tech and replace traditional websites
Shopify is the 2008 equivalent in the tech world. Hugely overvalued, no secret sauce (pretty web fronts that are powered by stripe)
Shopifys moat is nonexistent.
A very large portion of SMBs want to sell a handful of things without the overhead of maintaining and paying over the top for a e-commerce cms.
This plus social media will be a huge win for a lot of businesses