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Pixelway

A shop I built from scratch to find out whether I could write the software that sits behind Shopify.

Pixelway is a self-hosted dropshipping store. The idea was to test myself: could I build what stores like Shopify give you, on my own servers, without handing a cut to a platform?

So it has the lot. A catalogue, a customiser where you design your product, a basket and checkout, card payments, and orders that go straight to a print partner who makes the product and posts it. There's no stock and no warehouse.

The products are posters of places, which is where the name comes from. It sits next to a satnav app for iPhone that shares the same look.

Built with
React, Firebase, Stripe and a print-on-demand API
Tested
49 automated tests covering pricing, checkout state and the product renderer
Status
Early. Running in development, not open for orders yet.