Migrating an online shop

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  • mekk0

    Maybe your business is not ready to stand on it's own platform if $29/month are too much for it. Maybe you can switch to something like squarespace to showcase your products and use a platform like etsy or amazon marketplace to sell it?

    If you really see your product taking off soon and you want to make a living out of it, then invest as soon as you can in your own platform and maintain it properly from the start on. If you just have a little side gig going on, stay away from subscriptions and expensive contracts and even more stay away form hosting your own customer data and the like. If you're not ready to do so (and tbh it looks like) let the pricey legal and technical stuff be done by some big poppa somewhere else. It'll hit you hard.

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