I'm sure they ran a lot of experiments in the earlier wild west days of e-commerce that wouldn't look so great today, but we've learned a lot about what a successful e-commerce business looks like since then.
This is the very interesting part. By offering such great shipping terms on nearly everything (or close variants of), they're essentially setting the bar higher for any e-commerce store which carries similar items. This means businesses will need to both get with the times as well as find new moats and defining features to set them apart.
You've done a good job. eCommerce needed something modern for a long time already. enterpise really feels dated and this new approach will make ecommerce devs experience finally similar to what others do. like it
I'm sure it's a massive boost to their bottom line too. Once you get people on the site, and once they start putting together their order, odds are good they're not going to go elsewhere. The UX literally makes the sale for them.
(of course not every shopping cart converts to an order, and people still order things you don't have elsewhere, etc. But getting people on the site and engaged is half the battle, assuming you don't give them a reason to shop elsewhere.)
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Whoever championed (CIO?) and executed that e-commerce deserves an award. Serious. I work with a bunch of middle market manufacturers and distributors and doing e-commerce is HARD for them. I use that site as a reference on "how to do it right", every. single. time.
What I like about it is that it's a no-BS e-commerce store, get in and get out.
I've seen people shopping for hardware on reddit say that the navigation is clunky and confusing, and IIRC they said the products are price-gouged?
I'd be curious to know what other users here with an eye for design think of it, and if they know of similar websites, as I've been working on a hardware e-commerce store (mainly for my own use) that uses a lot of the same principles of no-BS shopping, I'm supposed to present it to my mentor next week
Also, a lot of the speed is pretty standard with most frameworks, they did a good job of blending in the slow loading bits into something that feels fast. Overall It's a great website and I'm sure it makes lots of sales
Weebly: www.fightingwalrus.com the e-commerce feature is... improving. Shipping and accounting integration still needs work but they have been responsive so far.
I've been in ecommerce off/on for about 5+ years now. The rush is awesome. One of my clients was NASA and they would put in $5K orders every quarter or so. Always got a thrill about that!
There are infinitely many things that would improve the sales of an e-commerce site. First among all things is making sure the site is not on localhost.
Many sites do not implement view all or infinite scroll and, empirically, still manage to make quite a lot of money. One prominent example is Amazon.
More broadly, I would sincerely love it if HN did not try to play "Let's one-up the founders" on day 1 for every startup, with special attention paid to YC startups. All startups will have great big honking problems on day one. (They're more of the flavor "Nobody knows we exist" than "Our 100 products are paginated rather than on a single page.") The ones that succeed in solving those problems will, in the process, revisit almost every stupidly inconsequential implementation detail, in the same sort of painful, considered depth that all of us who have shipped software before know will eventually happen.
Wouldn't we be a happier, more productive community if the tone was less "I have found your flaw!" and more "That's a good start. You might consider adding X, Y, and Z to the roadmap. Those have previously had outcomes like X1, Y1, and Z1 when tried in circumstances X2, Y2, and Z2. X and Y can probably wait, but Z should be a fairly high priority because $EXPLANATION_OF_HOW_Z_PREVENTS_YOU_FROM_DYING."
If I were to build Trennd towards these e-commerce guys, what would you improve/add/change to make them love it?
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