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by rsouthworth 1146 days ago
We built an open source free to start sales page using Astro, Solidjs, Stripe Checkout (payment processing), Supabase (store the order information for fulfillment), and hosted on Cloudflare pages. The only expense at launch is when processing a successful payment you have to pay the stripe processing fees.

Motivation was to create a site primarily with open source tools (we try to be open-source first!) where we could sell a relatively low-margin product without a lot of overhead costs that come with some of the big name providers - shopify ($40/month), Squarespace ($23/month). Plus the whole thing was a great project to learn from.

You can check out a sample site here https://showhn.cat-test-codes.pages.dev/ You can go through the end to end process to see how the customer experience is. If you wish to submit a test payment to stripe information on test card info can be found here: https://stripe.com/docs/testing

If you happen to be in the market for a California Achievement Test (CAT) you can help support us by making a purchase on our live version of the site https://cat.datagrove.com/

This is one of my first real working projects so really looking forward to some discussion!