interesting. siteless ecommerce, but NOT bots or chat UI or whatever. made me think about luxe design models again https://doriantaylor.com/reality-check https://twitter.com/NathanFGao/status/917236874162425856 …
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I imagine there's more to it than just expense, but this sure reminds me of taking orders from a webform that sent an email in the 90s...
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of course, that webform cost quite a bit (handcoded in 97) and both the FB group & the Gform are free now. why have a site?
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it feels shadowy to me as an old web person tbh - there was a period of 20 years or so when a "real" website was a signal of...something.
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but that signal is a lot cloudier now (in some ways sites are easier but in others they're harder now) so really what would it mean?
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& why would you bother? that's a great question for all of us that work on the web in the teens.
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So I've spoken to + observed some of them in action and can speak to a few factors. Re: the spinner guys, I might just go ask them outright
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Edinburgh store where I shopped: they tried ecomm, but was at core their retail location. No way to reconcile online/offline inventory!
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People buy in-store. Meanwhile online shoppers buys same item, which they now can't fulfill because they had no time to reconcile inventory
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They're too small for warehouse. FB group lets them put up wares, shoppers ask; they reconcile on/offline at their own pace. Problem solved
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Classic small business problem. I worked on projects 10+ years ago to reconcile these, but time was always the problem.
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