Hacker News with Generative AI: E-commerce

Joining the Shopify Board of Directors (world.hey.com)
I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he was building Snowdevil, which eventually became Shopify, to sell snowboards online.
Shopify, E-commerce, Business, Leadership
6 points by ksec 1 day ago | 1 comments
David Heinemeier Hansson joins Shopify's board (shopify.com)
Welcome, David Heinemeier Hansson (known to many as “DHH”), to Shopify’s board of directors.
Business, E-commerce, Software, Leadership
12 points by ibraheemdev 2 days ago | 2 comments
Chinese immigrants run e-commerce hubs out of their homes (restofworld.org)
Chinese immigrants in America are offering their living rooms and garages as warehouses to cross-border sellers on Temu, TikTok, and Amazon.
E-commerce, Immigrants, Entrepreneurship, Cross-border Selling, China
7 points by donohoe 4 days ago | 0 comments
Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers in their homes (restofworld.org)
Chinese immigrants in America are offering their living rooms and garages as warehouses to cross-border sellers on Temu, TikTok, and Amazon.
Immigration, E-commerce, Business, Technology, Social Impact
12 points by impish9208 6 days ago | 0 comments
Amazon launches Temu and Shein rival with 'crazy low' prices (bbc.com)
Amazon has launched a new outlet called Haul which caps the price of products on sale at $20 (£15.79), in an effort to take on low-cost retailers Temu and Shein.
E-commerce, Retail, Competition, Amazon, Pricing
4 points by pseudolus 7 days ago | 0 comments
Amazon Haul–a broad selection of products $20 or less (aboutamazon.com)
Amazon has always worked to provide customers with the widest possible selection, low prices, and a convenient shopping experience, and we offer more than 300 million products across more than 35 product categories.
E-commerce, Retail, Amazon, Shopping, Products
13 points by taubek 7 days ago | 14 comments
I Lost $210 to a Stripe Dispute Despite Proof (zarar.dev)
I lost a Stripe dispute of USD $210 because the customer that purchased tickets from my site used an email that he claimed to his bank was not his.
Stripe, Disputes, Online Payments, E-commerce, Customer Service
56 points by recroad 9 days ago | 49 comments
Temu Dropshipper Fraud Using Amazon Listings (amazon.com)
I’m beyond frustrated and need some advice here. I recently discovered that a seller on Temu is not only dropshipping my product, but they’re also stealing my product images and descriptions, listing them on Temu as if they own the brand. They’ve ripped off everything—design, images, branding—all of which I created myself.
E-commerce, Fraud, Intellectual Property, Dropshipping
6 points by ilamont 21 days ago | 0 comments
Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce Rivalry (bloomberg.com)
Over the past 15 or so years, Shopify Inc. has established itself as the go-to for mom-and-pop businesses looking to set up shop online. Now, in a dramatic shift, the Canadian company is targeting larger companies and, in doing so, looking to wrest e-commerce customers from Salesforce Inc.
E-commerce, Business, Competition, Technology, Software
136 points by mobilio 23 days ago | 92 comments
Show HN: OSS B2B Commerce Starter Built on Next.js and Medusa 2.0 (github.com/medusajs)
Official Medusa B2B Starter template. Features common B2B ecommerce requirements and can be easily adapted and extended.
Open Source, E-commerce, JavaScript, B2B, Next.js
10 points by riqwan 29 days ago | 0 comments
Indonesia orders Apple, Google to take down Chinese bargain app Temu (theregister.com)
Indonesia's government last week ordered Apple and Google to remove Chinese e-commerce app Temu from their app stores.
Indonesia, E-commerce, App Stores, Regulation, China
7 points by nobody9999 30 days ago | 3 comments
NextMaster: McMaster-Carr in Next.js (vercel.app)
NextMasterORDERORDER HISTORY
E-commerce, Web Development, JavaScript Frameworks, McMaster-Carr, Next.js
25 points by Rauchg 31 days ago | 13 comments
Internal blog post reveals Automattic's plan (techcrunch.com)
According to an internal blog post a source shared with TechCrunch, Automattic was crafting a plan to get significantly stricter about trademark enforcement across WordPress and its e-commerce platform WooCommerce since at least the beginning of the year. Separate sources have confirmed the authenticity of the post.
WordPress, E-commerce, Copyright, Business, Legal
8 points by wpinsider 32 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I built Bazaari.io to make launching online stores simple and fast (bazaari.io)
Start selling online without the need for technical skills, expensive experts, or spending hours on courses to learn an e-commerce platform. We simplify the process so you can focus on growing your business.
E-commerce, Startups, Business, Web Development, Tools
65 points by alizaid 38 days ago | 50 comments
Student finds scorpion crawling inside Shein parcel (bbc.com)
A student got more than she bargained for when she opened a clothing parcel from fast-fashion firm Shein to discover a live scorpion.
E-commerce, Shein, Animals, Unexpected Discoveries
7 points by adrian_mrd 41 days ago | 5 comments
Show HN: A website for comparing protein powder prices (nutritionprices.com)
All serving are normalized to a serving size of 25 grams of protein to enable price comparison.
Health, Nutrition, Tools, E-commerce
122 points by parmigiano 45 days ago | 72 comments
I made $1M in 67 days during Covid (marshallhaas.com)
This is the wild story of how I made $1,036,175 during the COVID lockdowns by rapidly creating a new physical product in 7 days.
Entrepreneurship, COVID-19, Business, Success Stories, E-commerce
32 points by thamer 48 days ago | 31 comments
Big names among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks (theregister.com)
Ray-Ban, National Geographic, Whirlpool, and Segway are among thousands of brands whose web stores were reportedly compromised by criminals exploiting the CosmicSting flaw in hope of stealing shoppers' payment card info as they order stuff online.
Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Retail, E-commerce
3 points by LinuxBender 48 days ago | 0 comments
Falling Down? Amazon is in a deeper hole than it represents and is still digging (radarblog.substack.com)
Within Amazon, there is pride in founding ideals.
Business, Amazon, Finance, E-commerce
29 points by 0x002A 50 days ago | 3 comments
Tengine: Open-source web server, originated by Taobao, based on Nginx (taobao.org)
Tengine is a web server originated by Taobao, the largest e-commerce website in Asia. It is based on the Nginx HTTP server and has many advanced features.
Open Source, Web Servers, Nginx, E-commerce, China
68 points by thunderbong 52 days ago | 30 comments
Promises of 'passive income' on Amazon led to death threats for online review (cnbc.com)
E-commerce, Online Reviews, Threats, Amazon
6 points by SirLJ 56 days ago | 0 comments
So what can the Internet do for me? (1999) (amcho.com)
Everyone has now heard about the information superhighway, e-mail, and the World Wide Web. You may be thinking that, possibly, you are missing out on this great new revolution - that somehow, if you knew more about it, you too could be 'coining it in'. In this short article I will try to explain it all in simple terms so that you can make your own decision.
Internet, Technology, History, E-commerce
5 points by nkotov 64 days ago | 0 comments
CCI Finds Samsung, Xiaomi Colluding with Amazon, Flipkart: Report (business-standard.com)
Samsung, Xiaomi and other smartphone companies colluded with Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart to exclusively launch products on the e-commerce firms' Indian websites in breach of antitrust laws, according to regulatory reports seen by Reuters.
Antitrust, E-commerce, India, Smartphones, Competition
31 points by thisislife2 67 days ago | 4 comments
US takes aim at Shein and Temu with new import rule proposal (theverge.com)
The Biden administration is addressing the “de minimis” exemption that it says some Chinese e-commerce companies “abuse” to ship products under $800 to US customers without tariffs.
Trade, E-commerce, US Politics, China
24 points by elashri 69 days ago | 9 comments
You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200k on Alibaba (arstechnica.com)
In an age when you can get just about anything online, it's probably no surprise that you can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba.
E-commerce, Diamonds, Technology, China
53 points by ksec 72 days ago | 35 comments
Show HN: YourNextStore – an open-source Shopify with Stripe as the back end (github.com/yournextstore)
Modern Commerce with Next.js and Stripe as the backend.
Open Source, E-commerce, Shopify, Stripe, Next.js
285 points by zaiste 72 days ago | 87 comments
The Mysterious, Meteoric Rise of Shein (theatlantic.com)
A murky founding story, a shadowy CEO, and a staggering takeover of American retail
Fashion, Retail, China, Business, E-commerce
21 points by helloplanets 74 days ago | 1 comments
Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem (prospect.org)
E-commerce, Counterfeiting, Amazon
117 points by yedava 85 days ago | 126 comments
"Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button" (twitter.com)
E-commerce, Online Shopping, Products, Social Media
197 points by hedgehog0 86 days ago | 128 comments
IKEA launches secondhand marketplace to compete with eBay (ft.com)
IKEA, Secondhand Marketplaces, E-commerce, Competition
63 points by marban 87 days ago | 62 comments