Yet again, I see dissident right wing people on X are surprised when a Big Tech cancels someone off their service for political reasons.
Shopify had yeeted alt right people off before, notably cancelling merch stores after the Charlottesville riot in 2017.
DO NOT USE THEM, they are off limits to you. Yes, that means you will have to put some effort into your merch store. BOO HOO. Nothing resilient is ever easy.
"Web Storefront" is such a trope at this point I'd bet ChatGPT can practically make one from scratch.
(Just hire a pro, though. It's only a matter of time before Shopify gets pwned and literally 80% of the non-conglomerate web shops get hacked in one go. At least those amateur sites will all have one-off exploits)
Not really - the reason web storefronts are so easy to make is because you're using a plugin to piggyback off someone else's system. There's a lot of things going on that you have to get right, and you'd be mad to trust some nutter selling swastika t-shirts to get it right and not leak his entire customer database because ChatGPT told him how to do it.
I agree, building a reasonably useful storefront from scratch would take a couple engineers a couple months, and that's assuming you use a payment processor like Stripe. Even when using spotify, Kanye made a custom UX which probably cost a non-trivial amount.