karlrossmann

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   by karlrossmann 16y ago

   wow, thanks Matt. This is the answer i have been waiting for. this is my misunderstanding. i get it now, it's not that a basic shopping cart isn't trivial, it's that it quickly expands to a full time job. thanks for enumerating specific
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   by karlrossmann 16y ago

   ah, ok, this make sense. So, the ecommerce programmer would write all of the catalog stuff, then hand it over to a 3rd party shopping cart for payment, coupons, taxes and shipping, etc.? is that that non-trivial part?
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   by karlrossmann 16y ago

   Because I'm obviously missing something. What else is a shopping cart besides a session associated table?
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   by karlrossmann 16y ago

   See, this is what I don't understand. Building a shopping cart is like 15 minutes of work if I'm already building my own e-commerce site, isn't it? Are 3rd party shopping carts for non-programmers? I mean, as far as I can tell, it's lite
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   by karlrossmann 16y ago

   dream host is good for about 10 visitors, after that you'll have to go to a VPS. I like rimuhosting- outstanding service for about $30/month. You get access to a virtual server, not a web interface, so you get a root account with a termina
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   Ask HN: What is a shopping cart and why wouldn't I just write my own?

   6 points by karlrossmann 16y ago|16 comments