Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

Reddit's /r/entrepreneur has a great selection of posts on this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/search?q=shopify&restr...

Generally speaking it seems that Shopify is the most popular platform for quickly deploying a store and easily adding on features you need.

The steps are usually along the lines of:

- Pick a product/niche

- Pick a store name

- Build out a store website (on Shopify, for example)

- Run targeted ads on Facebook, Reddit, Google

- Figure out logistics for stocking/shipping

- Cross your fingers and hope that your store somehow beats out the thousands of other stores out there...

It's definitely gotten harder and harder to "win" with a small online store now that Amazon and other web retail sites are so dominant. You might want to consider selling a product directly on Amazon with FBA or another established site like eBay.

Shopify. No point making a small store yourself.

I want to start my own business and I need to build an online store for this purpose. Frankly speaking, the only way that I've found is to use one of the website builders like those on http://www.beautifullife.info/web-design/10-best-ecommerce-b... , but I haven't chosen yet. So, your suggestions are very helpful for me. I'm going to check them. Thanks for sharing!

I want to start my own business and I need to build an online store for this purpose. Frankly speaking, the only way that I've found is to use one of the website builders like those on http://www.beautifullife.info/web-design/10-best-ecommerce-b... , but I haven't chosen yet. So, your suggestions are very helpful for me. I'm going to check them. Thanks for sharing:)