Simon Willison’s Weblog

What would be a good web application framework to use for running a small online retail business?

23rd November 2013

My answer to What would be a good web application framework to use for running a small online retail business? on Quora

I’d look at hosted SaaS solutions rather than running your own. I haven’t tried it myself but I’ve heard excellent things about www.shopify.com

Posted 23rd November 2013 at 11:50 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

More recent articles

Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics - 2nd September 2026
Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican - 1st September 2026
Understanding ChatGPT Work - 30th August 2026

This is What would be a good web application framework to use for running a small online retail business? by Simon Willison, posted on 23rd November 2013.

startups 190 webapps 44 web-development 169 quora 1,005 ecommerce 8

Next: What are some great board games to play for 3 or more people?

Previous: Is there an unsecured credit card that you can apply for that everyone who applies gets it?

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe