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Yes, taking money is ok, but it already takes money for subscription 29$/month. 2% from each deal is another story, if you have 100 deals with 100$ each you'll pay 200$ (and that's very small sales volume) - quite different from 29$ .

Wow, I didn't knew that Shopify takes 2% tax for each order, that's looks like a significant downside.

Another advantage - as soon as static site built from the raw files - you can store it in Git - and get revision and versioning for free, also if you have 10 or 1000 sites - it's trivially to write simple bash script that rsync all this to server in seconds.

It is not true, static site re-generated automatically, so you can add or change content at any time and the static site would be updated much the same way as it gets updated after you edit stuff in WordPress. I recently contribute to open source static site generator http://eviltext.com here's a sample site that uses it http://jslang.info

I'm a Web Developers, and sometimes I work on the eCommerce sites, so I know very well technical issues, but not so much about how people use it. There's a thing that sits in my mind and I can't get it, could you please explain it to me. Why you create your own solutions (or setup woocommerce, magento etc...) instead of using paid on-demand services? What features do you need from woocommerce or magento that are missing on the on-demand services? It can't possibly be that you try to save money, because those services cost as little as 15$/month (or maybe some of them even 100$/month - it doesn't matter, it's pennies). And, I am sorry but I'll be honest, most of those custom eCommerce installs looks not as nice as on-demand eCommerce services. So, tell me please - why do you prefer custom installs versus polished and ready to use on-demand services? P.S. I can understand why huge shops needs custom solutions - because they need some advanced stuff that not needed in small shops and doesn't exist in on-demand services.

Both http://freelancer.com and http://odesk.com suck, anyone knows that there are low-level developers and only outsource ****ty project there with about 10-15$/hour, you won't get any profit there. It's better to find long-term remote job and have $25-50/hour.

Hi, you probably heard about static site generators - you give it bunch of text files with images - and it turns it into the static site you can publish on the web. Here's such a site or more exactly a shop http://robotigra.ru There are list of products and cart to buy it. How it works - you write bunch of text files with images describing your products, like this one below: # Sony NEX-6 Sony NEX-6/B 16.1 MP Compact Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera - Pocket camera with professional-grade performance - 16 MP APS-C sensor with up to 10 fps shooting and Full HD video - Fast Hybrid AF includes phase-detection for DSLR-like focus - Tags : Sony, Compact - Price : 999 Then you download the script (it's free and open source) and run it against your files - and it generates the shop you can publish. The question is - do you need such a thing? I ask because currently the script http://eviltext.com can generate blog, site and wiki (example http://alex-craft.com ). I can add also support for the shop, but before spending my time on it I'd like to know if anybody needs such a thing? I wouldn't want to spend my time on something that nobody needs. Please let me know what you think.