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by gav 2257 days ago
I built a bunch of tools with user scripts to help run a smallish ecommerce business. It was especially useful because they didn't have the ability to easily or inexpensively make changes to their platform (you could argue that this is a big issue, but a lot of merchants have to give up control as the alternative is prohibitively expensive).

- A internal "there's an issue with this product" feature that created a ticket for the content team

- Identifying products and creating a Google Charts sparkline with sales inline on product listing pages

- Showing sales stats inline in pages, allowing non-technical people to get useful insights by just browsing the site and not having to look at dashboards/reporting tools/etc