HACKER Q&A
📣 endofreach

Radically different structured eCommerce sites?


I feel that most eCommerce sites have a very similar structure for their homepage, landing pages, product pages, cart etc. Of course it makes sense from a UI/UX perspective for the most part.

What eCommerce sites do you know that have a completely different structure than what you're used to?

  👤 jrockway Accepted Answer ✓
McMaster Carr. What every ecommerce site should be.
👤 acdanger
https://www.lingscars.com/
👤 spcebar
More commercial b2b ecomm sites will sometimes not have product pages and instead just have one page that looks like a spreadsheet that you fill out and submit, the idea being the customer needs to order in bulk and is already aware of what the product is/doesn't need to be marketed to. You basically go down the lines on the spreadsheet and just put in quantities for each product.

That's the closest I can think of. There are ecomm sites that have been around since the 90s and haven't changed much but those either still have the product page/cart/checkout structure or are functionally just catalogues and require you to place an order by phone.

👤 _fat_santa
https://rockauto.com

Granted it's a catalog site so they are going to have a huge inventory. Still I'm surprised how usable the UX is.

👤 RileyJames
My local brewery had a pretty radical new feature today. Each time I clicked on the cart it removed all the items.

Radical anti commerce initiative dude.

Or maybe a bug..

Kool topic tho, keen to see the responses.

👤 rdtwo
Yeezysupply and supreme.