Shopify

Where it stands

Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works

Read automatically from Shopify's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

• Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 70 ms.
• Security3.5 / 52 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options).
• Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
• Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.

59% of the 29 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Shopify; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works

• Positive

  “Search bar would bring the same problem to Shopify. Knockoff will always sell for cheaper, and will try to game the search so they'll end up at the top and quickly become the most purchased. It's the lack of search that…”

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• Positive

  “I'm happy to see that Shopify is also using that strategy. I'm curious to know more what sorts of challenges they have around managing dependencies across engines — I think what we were doing was fairly vanilla Rails,…”

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• Critical

  “> From the outside it looks like Shopify’s plan to compete with Amazon A lot of customers (retailers) sell on both a DTC platfor like Shopify, Magento, Hybris, Woocommerce, whatever AND Amazon. Of course running a…”

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• Critical

  “That it is unpleasant for the potential hire doesn't really say much about the interests of Shopify. For senior engineers this probably is a bad strategy, but maybe not for entry-level or intermediate engineer who they…”

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Threads: Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics (2023, 505 comments) · Shopify to Acquire Delivrr for $2.1B (2022, 229 comments) · Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith (2020, 125 comments) · Shopify live dashboard (2023, 108 comments)