Show HN: Commerce – Drop in e-commerce for any website
With this single include, you get a shopping cart, account registration and login (Email, Google, Facebook, etc), live shipping quotes, invoicing, and the ability to sell complex product variants (composite/configurable products, delta pricing, fractional pricing, wholesale pricing, etc). Much of this is configurable via an administrative interface we've built up alongside the product.
From individual clients we've onboarded onto the system, we've already processed over 2 million dollars in transactions - a drop in the bucket compared to most of the other players in the market, but we're proud of it!
Before Commerce, the three of us consulted full-time as a team with a focus on static/Jamstack sites. We have over 30 years of agency and consulting experience between us (we're all mid-30s). Commerce was born out of a need to supply an e-commerce solution to a client, while still maintaining a static build. It was so successful, we decided to split off the product as it's own business, and Commerce was born.
As a company, we applied (late) to YC's W19 batch and didn't make the cut - and are currently working through Startup School as we work towards a full public launch. We're hoping to follow-up with a Launch HN in the coming weeks, but in the meantime this is our first time exposing the product to anyone who isn't a direct client of ours, so we're happy to take questions. And if it's a product you're interested in, we'd love it if you hopped over to https://static.tools/commerce and signed up for our launch announcements.
Thanks!
Site: https://static.tools
Demo: https://demo.static.tools
Docs: https://docs.static.tools
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 37.2 ms ] threadThe real benefit at the moment is that you can get Commerce running with the site you already have - you don't need to replatform in order to start selling things. Additionally, the cart is entirely real time - so a user can go from their laptop to their phone without needing to refresh the page to see any changes to the cart. Finally, the core of the cart is vanilla JS - so there is no inherent need to use React/Vue/(enter JS framework here) - although you certainly can by hooking directly into the API if that's where your tooling is at.
It's also ready to rock for static websites - no backend required - that was the initial drive for the product itself and it's grown from there.
Are you targeting any key segments, use case, or GMV merchant-wise?
Happy to share what I know if it would be relevant. Feel free to DM!
You either have to custom code everything or use woocommerce or Magento APIs.
Getting woocommerce or wordpress system to work as API is very difficult and poorly implemented with multiple plugins to manage register, cart, orders, payments etc.
Implementing a full blown Magento install for this is just overkill.
I looked into couple of hosted SaaS in this space and they were too new with limited functionality.
Glad this space is picking up. All the best.