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New comment by ericingram in "Show HN: API-first alternative to ReCharge and Shopify in one checkout"

ericingram — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 20:31:32 +0000

Swell is a headless, API-first ecommerce platform that many of our users would describe as an a modern alternative to Shopify.

I'm the CEO/co-founder at here, and want to give credit to HN community for giving me a lot of encouragement early on, but in truth this has been a long journey for us to get to a place where we can say, Swell is truly a great alternative to the current "state of the art", which is managing your physical products and subscription products in two different backends. We made a key decision to make subscriptions a native feature, and to make it great, for everyone.

This post marks our announcement of a huge set of features and improvements to subscriptions, including a new headless commerce theme: Horizon (our 2nd one total so far), that will make it easier than ever to launch a beautiful, customizable, and scalable subscription membership site with Swell.

Check it out and let me know what you think :)

Show HN: API-first alternative to ReCharge and Shopify in one checkout

ericingram — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 19:36:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swell.is/for/subscription-ecommerce

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28935137

Points: 13

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New comment by ericingram in "Swell: API-First Infrastructure for Ecommerce"

ericingram — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:04:27 +0000

Thanks @tejasmanohar! It's been a great personal journey and now global team effort to get Swell here. For the HN community, what really makes Swell interesting is that it's build on a fully customizable API schema, which enables you to create custom endpoints (content models) that are deeply integrated with all the standard ecommerce functionality you'd expect from a modern SaaS platform. That's what makes Swell fundamentally an infrastructure, and the foundation of the product.

On top of that, we want to make adopting Swell easy and approachable for everyone, not just developers, so we've created a concept called "headless themes" which is a complete store frontend that we host for you, or you can host yourself on Netlify/Vercel. It's essentially a custom app, but works out of the box as an ideal starting point for the long term growth of an ecommerce brand. The key point is that it's integrated with a theme editor/customizer so that admins can control content and other important aspects of their storefront, as enabled by developers. We're standardizing official themes on Vue/Nuxt.js, because we think it's the most accessible and well documented framework, but themes can be built with React or any future framework that comes around.

Check it out on github: https://github.com/swellstores/origin-theme

New comment by ericingram in "Ask HN: What service would you pay $1k/mo for?"

ericingram — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 16:16:54 +0000

You just need to eat less. A lot less than you expect and a lot less than you hear about from traditional diet advice.

React Storefront

ericingram — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:15:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/insoftpub/storefront

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13039517

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ericingram in "Dropbox API v2 launches"

ericingram — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 23:00:23 +0000

I think we solved the common issues with REST for Schema (https://schema.io) in a way that makes it really nice for developing web apps. For example, to include related resources you can specify an `expand` field in a get request, and if you want to include unrelated resources you can do it with the `include` field.

There are probably good ways to solve most if not all of the problems people typically run into with REST APIs for web apps, but it could take a lot of experimentation to figure them out. It sure took us a while.

New comment by ericingram in "Show HN: Schema – API to Build and Scale Ecommerce"

ericingram — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:12:35 +0000

Glad to hear that! For the time being we recommend using the HTTP endpoint with `requests` for python. The official python client will take some time longer because we haven't seen a very big demand for it vs other priorities. However, if anyone is interested in developing it with us, please contact me at eric at schema.io.

Show HN: Schema – API to Build and Scale Ecommerce

ericingram — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:40:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schema.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313539

Points: 17

# Comments: 2

Show HN: Schema – API to Build and Scale Ecommerce

ericingram — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:36:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schema.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10304700

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Tokutek (TokuMX/TokuDB) Acquired by Percona

ericingram — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:07:55 +0000

Article URL: http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Percona+Acquires+Tokutek+--+Becomes+First+Vendor+to+Offer+Both+MySQL+and+MongoDB+Software+and+Solutions/10456894.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9376557

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ericingram in "Announcing MongoDB 3.0"

ericingram — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 14:58:38 +0000

We've been using TokuMX for a while and I highly recommend others take a serious look there. It already contains the benefits cited for MongoDB 3 and more. Toku also has a release candidate for the new Mongo storage engine API named TokuMXse, though it's interesting to see that TokuMX proper still outperforms it: http://www.tokutek.com/2015/01/first-tokumxse-performance-nu...

New comment by ericingram in "How to Migrate 50M Records from Mongo to PostgreSQL in Less Than a Day"

ericingram — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:18:55 +0000

If numbers are the deciding factor for anyone, have a look at TokuMX which I believe has much better performance and storage characteristics compared to plain Mongo.

http://www.tokutek.com/products/tokumx-for-mongodb/

New comment by ericingram in "The S in Rest"

ericingram — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:50:24 +0000

As the developer of a REST centric ecommerce platform[1], I agree. The price of an order item is specific to that order and does not necessarily match the product's base price. It may be calculated using special account pricing rules, tiered by quantity, or discounted by a coupon. In such a system I have found many occurrences where data has to be de-normalized for this reason. Although the the new state is derived, it may otherwise differ from the source. Not just a function of value and time.

1) http://getfwd.com

New comment by ericingram in "First they came for the Whistleblowers, and I did not speak out"

ericingram — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 03:34:42 +0000

I imagine it has to get much worse before it can get any better. Many Americans view the government as the answer to every problem, and thus continue voting to grant it more power. Nothing can turn the tide except mainstream rejection of the that idea.

New comment by ericingram in "Call me maybe: MongoDB (2013)"

ericingram — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 03:23:23 +0000

We didn't need GEO indexing but what Toku does offer is pretty exciting. Primary wins for us include multi-query transactions, compression, fractal tree indexes (thus overall insert and query performance), and clustering indexes.

New comment by ericingram in "Call me maybe: MongoDB (2013)"

ericingram — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 01:35:25 +0000

Once again, a TokuMX engineer steps up to explain issue and offer a potential solution. I can't help but wonder why MongoDB engineers aren't doing this. But no matter, just glad we're using TokuMX.

New comment by ericingram in "Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition"

ericingram — Sat, 17 May 2014 14:39:53 +0000

Governments create and enforce laws, so they must be held accountable for them. If the government didn't have such discretionary power, lobbying would not be a thing at all.

I don't blame the big cable companies for doing it, since they'd be at a competitive disadvantage otherwise.

Remember that humans operate companies and governments alike. Except governments use force and companies are subject to it.

New comment by ericingram in "A proposal for more reliable locks using Redis"

ericingram — Sat, 17 May 2014 01:14:40 +0000

Go create such a system, make it easy to use and widely available, and then you might have room to say such things with some credibility.

New comment by ericingram in "Flowhub is now in Public Beta"

ericingram — Wed, 07 May 2014 16:52:07 +0000

I need a better introduction to understand how flow programming works, and how I might use it. Instead I see a (seemingly) complex graph which I understand represents a program, but it's not clear how this really works in relation to text programming. I could spend hours and hours digging to figure it out, but that could be a waste of time, so I won't do it.

I get text based programming. Find a way to quickly connect that experience with flow programming, and conversion rate on this site will improve.

New comment by ericingram in "Optimizely Raises $57 Million"

ericingram — Mon, 05 May 2014 18:37:32 +0000

New VWO UI looks amazing. Great work on it.