Stories of founders going back to self hosting from Shopify, Squarespace

In a minute or two, Google won't be hosting your domains anymore anyway, it's back to Squarespace with you, like it or not!

https://www.squarespace.com/press-releases/2023/6/15/squares...

Under the terms of the agreement, Squarespace will honor all existing Google Domains customers' renewal prices for at least 12 months following the closing of the transaction, as well as provide additional incentives to encourage Google Domains customers to build a website with Squarespace and adopt other Squarespace offerings. Further, Squarespace will be leveraging Google's infrastructure powering the Google Domains product during the migration period in order to ensure the seamless transfer of domains.

Upon closing, Squarespace, a long- time reseller of Google Workspace, will become the exclusive domains provider for any customer purchasing a domain along with their Workspace subscription from Google directly for a minimum of three years. Squarespace will also provide billing and support services to Google Workspace customers that signed up for the service through Google Domains. Customers will continue to have the option to make changes to their domains account at any time.

Just transitioned a client from Wordpress/WooCommerce to Shopify. Can’t believe how fast monthly costs run up, especially on their ‘app store’. I’m glad devs are being paid but jeez… i’ve spent a lot of time constructing workarounds for apps my client didn’t want to pay for, and its highly likely me and my hourly rate to code these solutions would of paid for those apps twice-over. Lol.

The only companies I am aware of that moved back to self hosted outgrew the Shopify platform. By that I mean, they had a large enough business with enough unique needs to justify the cost of hiring and running teams that could build the applications and support the infrastructure required to operate an e-commerce business at great scale. Generally this happens after the 7 figure mark.

Source: built a number of Shopping cart apps across multiple platforms that had 6 figure total install counts.

I don't really understand your question.

If you don't want to learn HTML/CSS/Javascipt and maintain your own server, use something like Shopify. If that works, why would you go back to self hosted? You still don't know HTML/CSS and you will just burden yourself again?

A little clarification would be helpful...

I just use my platform for all my clients that want to use shopify. Shameless plug. Most people mine works fine and it does more than shopify does without plugins.

Most companies do not need shopify.

Basecamp is the best reading I've found on this. https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...