Reilly Chase swaps a $39 Shopify plan for a Laravel store built from his iPhone
Reilly Chase replaced his $39-a-month Shopify bill with his own Laravel PHP app, built in a few hours by prompting Cursor from his iPhone. It's a fully functional store with Stripe and Apple Pay, backend order fulfilment and a Shippo integration for shipping labels. He even says the design looks better than the custom Shopify theme he once paid a developer to make. E-commerce platforms sold the idea that a store is too hard to build yourself. This one was built from a phone.
Saving, as stated by the author: $39/month
I just replaced our $39/month Shopify bill with my own Laravel PHP app created in a few hours prompting in Cursor from my iPhone
• Fully functional store with Stripe and Apple Pay
• Backend order fulfillment plus Shippo integration for generating shipping labels
• Design looks better than the Shopify custom theme that I had to pay a developer to make for us
— Reilly Chase, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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