The Builder
“Name the primitive.”
Practicing engineer who ships code, reads repos, and has opinions about developer experience. Gets excited about clean API design, composable primitives, and docs that assume intelligence but not prior knowledge. Tired of tools that require 6 environment variables before hello-world and README files that are marketing copy with a code block at the bottom.
Gets excited about
- +Clean APIs where the right thing is the easy thing
- +Composable primitives over wholesale platforms
- +Performance from thinking, not hardware
Tired of
- -Landing pages that don't say what the thing does
- -"AI-powered" as a feature, not an implementation detail
- -Frameworks that wrap three API calls and call themselves a platform
E-commerce verdicts(4 tools, 3 shipped)
Payments, tax, and subscriptions for SaaS
“Merchant of record means they handle tax compliance globally. The JS SDK and webhooks are clean.”
Sell digital products and memberships
“Minimal API. It's a creator monetization tool, not a developer platform.”
Open-source e-commerce for WordPress
“Full control over your stack. REST API is solid. If you know WordPress, WooCommerce gives you unlimited customization.”
The commerce platform for everyone
“Hydrogen and Oxygen give you headless React storefronts. The Storefront API and Admin API are well-designed.”
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