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I got super-excited for a moment because I'm literally in the midst of a weekend project putting together, well, a simple online store (I'm a novice - yes, these things still take me a weekend ;)

But this is, alas, too simple. I'm actually taking the plunge and building a Rails app.

Anyone have some good/great/awesome JS shopping cart suggestions that are perhaps equally-simple in theory but a bit more robust?

I'm using Rails, ActiveMerchant and Stripe.js so far (been looking for a good excuse to actually use Stripe - psyched to try 'em out).

Something between this and Spree, which is massive massive overkill for my purposes.




> yes, these things still take me a weekend

I would think so. This HN myth that you can build and launch the infrastructure you need to run a business in a weekend needs to die.


What do you mean?

I launched two sites while typing this comment.


Why not use Shopify and save yourself all the pain?


FYI - this is a day late but this is exactly what I decided to do. Moment of zen in the shower when I realized "yes, I need to learn rails and this would be a great opportunity to get better, but I also need to ship the product so why am I reinventing the wheel?"

Shopify is fantastic so far. Still getting my Rails chops dirty playing with webhooks and some post-order processing, so it's not all lost :)

Thanks!


brilliant. Thank you so much!


Hah, I too got excited (and almost mad) when I just saw this as I just spent the past week building a django-based ecommerce solution for a custom project... This might have potential but I'm not convinced. It is interesting though. I'm also using stripe for my project and excited to try them out:)


What are you selling?




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