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by Roridge 5799 days ago
It looks good, nice to see real eCommerce exists (e.g. you pay something for a product, I was beginning to feel like everything was a service of a service).

One thing that really really puts me off web sites is if I can't tell shipping costs quickly and easily. Your site is good in that at least you don't have to register to see the total cost, but you do have to add a product and go to the cart to find out shipping. If your shipping is a flat $8.45, I'd suggest having that under a FAQ type area.

Also gift wrap options are good.

I'd be interested to know who you are hosting with. Is it a 3dCart or Shopify type or did you go solo?

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Wonderful suggestions on both accounts.

We went solo and built from scratch with Django, not because it was easier, but because we want to do a lot of fancy stuff with content, tracking, A/B testing and custom product generation later down the road.

All good reasons for going solo, and exactly what I would expect HN user to say :)

Good luck