That would be nice, but there is a reason there are so few competetors to Shopify. We ...

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That would be nice, but there is a reason there are so few competetors to Shopify. We swapped between them and BigCommerce a few times. Both publicly traded companies with, until very recently, pretty, objectively crappy software and tools, and not great internal testing. Their stocks tanked during 2020 and we felt it. Offshore customer support if any, AI chatbots, cancelled or slow to integrate features. Tools that just flat out didn't work. APIs that have poor documentation or closed off. Plugin systems with terrible partnership terms and bad app stores with unmaintained or poorly advertised projects. An absolute wasteland if you ask me. Shopify got much better at the middle of 2023 because they just started axing things and changed their focus. Increased ad spend and so on. They could actually be doing better, or it could be a bubble idk.

My point is, these are both massive public companies and still can't get it right. Unless one of those players takes a change in direction I'm not sure the money is there to compete. Shop owners fought hard to get Shopify how they wanted it, they may not want to give it up. Stores care about selling things, they don't want the other stuff, and ownership and freedom of speech matters quite little imo, most of them won't touch bitcoin with a 20ft pole.

Nostr can't fix the SEO or ranking yet, but it could allow shops to own their review's a little easier while the public can still have trust in the reviews being public.

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