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by mwn 1057 days ago
You had a great run, but I think it is unfair to say that Shopify “saw what you were doing” and “hijacked” your business. Obviously a small team can move faster and Shopify could easily have internal development plans for the same solution for a long time. Kudos for the €600k MRR and your execution.
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matsemann 1057 days ago
If Shopify "hijacked" it by making a better product it would be more okay. When they however outright just ban competition, that's anti-consumer behavior and should be stopped.
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mwn 1057 days ago
No, in the part "April 2020 - Shopify hijacks Upsell X" they are requesting him to "not distribute mass solutions via private apps to Shopify merchants in order to bypass checkout". Shopify had their own checkout from the beginning and the whole purpose of his application was to bypass the existing solution. I assume there were Bulgarian payment providers connected to Shopify in 2017, but according to himself these payment providers wouldn't accept their business idea to run a pharmacy as an e-commerce. Therefore, he made a workaround.
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