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subarctic 2 hours ago

Too bad because they have some incredible products

stackghost an hour ago | parent [-]

All I know is Wordpress and Beeper, are any of their other products good? Like isn't WooCommerce an absolute also-ran compared to Amazon, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, etc?

dofm 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Woocommerce is everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. Over four million stores.

About a third of all non-big-box/amazon online shopping runs through Woocommerce installations. Much more than Shopify, which is the next biggest.

Because it’s a plugin for WP you might not ever notice a store is Woocommerce until you get the store emails that people often don’t customise much.

It’s fully possible to run a Woocommerce store without giving anyone a cut beyond your payment provider’s normal cut.

It’s not too difficult to extend; custom payment gateways and order processing hooks, inbound APIs, GraphQL etc.

If you are judicious about your install — just run Woocommerce, WP, customise one of the core themes or a well-known good theme like WP-Start or an Anders Noren theme, use the Stripe or Paypal payment gateway, it’s pretty solidly secure, too; you’ll get automatic updates.

It’s not the most fun thing to administer, but it’s not Magento at least.

Automattic’s acquisition of Woocommerce was a blessing; some of the more complex extensions to woocommerce are still paid addons, which is where they make their money (as well as payment gateway referral fees, which was a little-noticed part of the squabble with WP Engine, who modified woocommerce to change the referrer to point to them). Woothemes were unpredictable and at times rapacious.

stackghost 3 minutes ago | parent [-]

I stand corrected!

jimmydddd 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not an enterprise product, but SimpleNote is great. I was happy that they bought it.

sphars 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm a fan of PocketCasts as my podcast app on Android. It was bought by Automattic in 2021.