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hapibenon Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

Convert keywords into clickable links for better SEO, affiliate marketing, and streamlined content creation.

hapibenon Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

I use NuxtJS + Netlify + Cloudflare (DNS). Recently Nuxt released https://nuxt.studio making it more easier for me to edit contents.

My sites are pretty small. The only thing I pay for now is the domain which is around $9 to $15 per year/domain.

hapibenon Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

I'm working on https://buysimplified.com - streamlines your Amazon shopping experience by curating the badge-awarded products.

hapibenon Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

Color Name Generator: https://color-name-generator.com

A small side project to help me as a dev to name colors. Might be useful for designers. $0 on hosting (Netlify). $0 earnings.

hapibenon Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

I'm currently working on a Storefront for Shopify Lite plan users.

https://tinystore.app

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

This is super neat and fast as well. Well done!

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

- Ruby on Rails - VueJS for the store. Just the part where I render the products - PostgreSQL - Bulma CSS - PostgreSQL - DigitalOcean - Cloudflare

Two important JS libraries from Shopify: - Shopify BuyButton.js for the product modal, cart and checkout - Shopify JavaScript Buy SDK for product pagination

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

Some small businesses don't require a full online store. I'm putting my wife as an example. I agree that $15/month savings is not a big deal, but overtime, it will be. I also noticed that most customers don't care about how the site looks, as long as it's functional and they can do their purchase.

$15/month savings can be spent in FB/Instagram ads or something that can drive more customers. In 3 months, you save $45 or $180/year.

I'm also planning allow users to add multiple stores. The site is hosted in DO and can scale up easily.

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

True. There are a few comments here about improving the landing page. I need to put more context into it and explain what it does and the value for the users. Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it. :-)

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

That's right. You will end up having a bill of $14/month in total instead of $29 for the basic plan. TinyStore doesn't offer much customization atm. You can add pages, announcement banner, logo and social handles. With more feedback from users, I can improve the store with more features in the future.

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

I've used WooCommerce before for my wife's online store. I hosted it in DO. It's okay, but not as good as Shopify in terms of payments, inventory management etc. I also ended up having to install a lot of plugins which most of it are in trial.

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

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

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

Agree. Thanks for this feedback. I'll put it on top of my backlog. :-)

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

Thanks for the feedback. There's a lot of good feedback here that will make my weekend busy.

My wife is a good example where she doesn't need a fancy storefront. She gets her customers from Instagram/Facebook. She only needs a super basic/low-end storefront for her customers to do their purchase.

there's plenty of Shopify merchants and partners who aren't even aware of the Lite plan, and if they know it's there, are unclear of the limitations. - 100% agree.

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

Thanks. It's 99% Bulma defaults.

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

Agree. Thanks for the feedback. I’m thinking to add a “How it works” section to explain what it really does.

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

With Lite plan, you get the whole experience except that you don't have a storefront to sell your items.

https://www.shopify.com/lite

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

Thanks for the feedback. I agree. I'll put it in my backlog.

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

Good spotting. Thanks. I just fixed it.

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

Thanks. Yes, it will still work with the basic plan and above.

If you need the POS, I think it's included in all plans (including the Lite plan).

https://www.shopify.com/pos/features#Payments

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

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!

hapibenon Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

Thanks. The site is still new, I'll fix that bug. :-)

hapibenon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

http://gemfly.findings.co

hapibenon Show HN: Gemfly – Update your Gemfile gems

It doesn't do that yet. Sounds like a good feature to add. :-)

I'm happy to merge pull requests as this tool is not just for me but for everyone.

https://github.com/benedictaluan/gemfly

hapibenon Show HN: Gemfly – Update your Gemfile gems

Sorry about that. It's currently hosted on Heroku with limited dynos. I'm planning to move it into a VPS today.

Gemfly does a simple thing compared to bundle update. The purpose is to replace the versions of your gems in your Gemfile with the latest one. It also adds version if it doesn't have one.

If you have this gem: gem 'rails', '~> 3.2.12'

It will become: gem 'rails', '~> 4.2.3'

If you have: gem 'rails'

It will become: gem 'rails', '~> 4.2.3'

It's recommended to put versions in your Gemfile specially if you're updating to a major version.