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by gavinballard 2y ago
Recurring order functionality is typically delegated to a third party app in Shopify land; the two biggest incumbents in this space have pretty ordinary UX so it’s likely you were looking at one of those. More recent entrants in the market
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by gavinballard 4y ago
There is a great company here in Australia ( https://greatwrap.com.au ) already doing this at decent scale with potato waste. Their manufacturing costs are on par with traditional plastic wrap.
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Cryptographic Side-Channels (Timing Leaks) in JSBN(github.com)
2 points by gavinballard 4y ago|0 comments
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by gavinballard 5y ago
Disco Labs | Senior Backend Engineer | Melbourne, Australia or Remote within Australia | https://www.discolabs.com We write software that powers commerce for hundreds of merchants across the world, including some of the biggest
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Conscious Culture – Bolt's culture playbook(conscious.org)
1 points by gavinballard 5y ago|0 comments
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by gavinballard 6y ago
Yes! I don’t really get the jump from using the GraphQL API to “this can only be used by small players” when it’s empirically not. That article is absolutely bang on, We Make Websites is one of the best in the business when it comes to Shop
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by gavinballard 6y ago
I strongly disagree that Shopify is only good for "companies with few SKUs or mom-pop kind of stores". Perhaps that's where they started out, but their Plus offering is very solid these days and provides a good platform for r
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by gavinballard 7y ago
I don't think this is true - I believe it's only their merchandise store that's on Shopify. Car purchases are done through their own, custom platform. That said, there are definitely plenty of huge merchants running on Shopif
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by gavinballard 11y ago
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! I'll dive into the implementation a little more shortly, but just wondering how easy it is to add additional constraints (for example, that pieces need particular orientations)? Edit: Oh, I see ther
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by gavinballard 11y ago
Australia does this through the use of "franking credits" attached to dividends.
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by gavinballard 11y ago
As someone who has built a comfortably profitable business focused purely on Shopify-related products and services, I agree that it's a great market to be in. I understand and can relate to some of the hardships the sibling throwaway c
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Something's Coming(signalvnoise.com)
2 points by gavinballard 11y ago|0 comments
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by gavinballard 11y ago
RailsLTS ( https://railslts.com/ ) is probably the product you're referring to in (2).
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by gavinballard 11y ago
> Thanks for the excellent resources, I'll look that up. You're welcome! > Well, I haven't even created the paid product at this point, it's still early in the game. Just trying to get a feel for the potentials. Su
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by gavinballard 11y ago
Mike Perham has done a great job of turning two successful open source projects (Sidekiq and Inspeqtor) into successful businesses. If you're interested, I recommend listening to his interviews on the ChangeLog Podcast ( https:/&#
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by gavinballard 11y ago
Agree. The LTS releases are great, but for anything you expect to be working with on an ongoing basis I think it's worth the yearly pain of upgrading rather than a huge headache every three years.
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React: CSS in JS(speakerdeck.com)
2 points by gavinballard 12y ago|0 comments
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by gavinballard 12y ago
Buffer is quite well known for this, you can view the salary of everyone in the company here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgrWVeoG5divdE8... .
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by gavinballard 12y ago
~$500/m from sales of my Bootstrap framework for Shopify themes ( http://www.bootstrapforshopify.com ).
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by gavinballard 12y ago
Trademarks are a form of intellectual property.
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by gavinballard 12y ago
It's quite real, but there are some marks which are so well-known (like Coca Cola) that they can argue that the use of the mark in any context is likely to cause consumer confusion. If you did launch an OS called CocaCola, they would
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by gavinballard 12y ago
What do your clients do with the things you maintain and deploy? Does it help them make money? If so, then you're helping your clients make money. I'm in the same position as you (running a small development/consulting shop)
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by gavinballard 12y ago
I used to use Skyscanner only for intra-Europe flights, but it's quickly becoming my first and last stop when looking for cheap deals. Really fantastic service.
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by gavinballard 12y ago
Absolutely. At the risk of sounding like an acolyte, I've been reading Nathan's stuff for a while and once I decided I had something valuable to teach, I happily shelled out for Authority to get some guidance and focus on how to g
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Show HN: Build a Shopify App in 15 Minutes with Django(gavinballard.com)
3 points by gavinballard 12y ago|0 comments
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by gavinballard 12y ago
Not sure if "largely unused" is right. I use them all the time, and have seen them in pretty common use around the place.
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by gavinballard 12y ago
I sell a framework for Shopify theme development ( http://bootstrapforshopify.com ). It's free to use on sites that have been set up with my affiliate link.
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by gavinballard 12y ago
I make about $200/m in affiliate revenue from Shopify ( http://www.shopify.com/?ref=disco ) <= Yes, that's an affiliate link.
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Show HN: Build Shopify themes using Bootstrap(bootstrapforshopify.com)
2 points by gavinballard 12y ago|0 comments
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by gavinballard 12y ago
It's there (the Unity / Rhythm / Balance... example)!

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