I had some leftover inventory after doing the WAGMI holiday baskets, so I made a new storefront to sell it all.
It's a complete PWA that you can install on your phone.
Once you've put your shipping address in, which is stored locally on your device (no account, not even nostr!) making a purchase is just a matter of making a couple taps.
Scan a Lightning QR to pay.
It's stupid simple, very convenient, highly private, and quick. I'm proud of the experience.
Free shipping on everything until tomorrow 2/21.
Try it!
This is an experiment I'm running today and tomorrow. All orders will ship out on Sunday, and then I will suspend the store until further notice.
Video overview:
These products are so expensive. But I placed an order. Very simple!!! Sats spent!
Thanks. Prices are same or less than what the original merchants are charging. But in most cases you have to pay shipping per item if you buy directly...on my site you pay shipping once for everything you buy. So you can save a ton of money that way.
Is this for new products only or second hand items as well?
Everything is new. Haven't really thought about adding second-hand items.
Will the PWA give us an alert when a new item is added?
No, but that would be a high priority if/when I continue the project. As mentioned in the OP I'm suspending it on Saturday 2/21 and sending all orders out on Sunday 2/22.
BTW, since you did place an order, how did you find the experience? Anything stand out, good or bad?
It was easy. Now I wait to see if I get my item
Of course you will lol. I'll send an email but the order status in the app should update to show the tracking link as well.
Cool idea.
Idea is nothing special. People always complain about bitcoin/nostr stuff being too complicated and finicky...so I made it simpler. And everyone knows we need to strengthen the circular economy...so that's what I'm doing. It's not rocket science.
Let's see how the response is.
The UX is quite non-responsive. Without notice I accidently ended up with cart full of things I didn't wanted. Clicking to description of an item does nothing. Clicking on back in browser goes out of the site.
And what is not clear at first is that the shop seems to be US only.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add a note for it being US-only.
Maybe the add-to-cart animation could be made a little more obvious. Personally I find it annoying when a website interrupts the browsing flow upon every addition, but maybe the way it's done now is too subtle.
The standard from what I've seen is to click the product title or picture to see more details.
It's designed as a single-page app/PWA optimized for mobile so there should never be a need to "go back" in a traditional sense.
This is awesome. Sort of obvious question, but the address still has to be transmitted to you, it's just being stored after printing the label, right?
Storing data locally makes the experience faster since there's no waiting for a server to load.
Privacy-wise, because there are no identities and no accounts, a user can choose to change their name and address anytime and there's no connection. For example, to a different PO Box with a different name. I would have no idea that 2 orders belong to the same person.
So it's just as much an experience thing as a privacy thing...the privacy benefit came for free.
Got it. Thanks!
Awesome! I got some coffee :) huge LN fee however (130)
Excellent! Yeah I've been seeing high fees too. Better to do on-chain in many cases...