Building an e-commerce website: the fast way out!

Building an ecommerce store has many aspects to it aside from the development, interface, search engine optimization (SEO), user tracking, store analytics and distribution monitoring (for the products shipped) also play a big role in making a business successful.

Building a website with a CMS and admin panel like the one you’ve shared (Aranya Foods – Online Store) typically takes around 10-16 weeks, including design, front-end, back-end development, and testing. The exact timeline depends on the complexity of the features, developer experience, and the need for any additional integrations such as payment systems or analytics.
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The Challenges

Building a website from scratch can be time consuming as well as energy-draining in case of solopreneurs, other challenges with developing a website from scratch:

Long-term dependency on a developer for making even small changes.
The long timeline of a project in the starting to get website live.
Return on investment to test out a product becomes longer.
Solopreneurs focus shifted from the product/business to additional issues.
For smaller organizations with single developer, work becomes hectic for the developer as they have to work single-handedly on Front-end, back-end and research on merging plugins to track the website data.

Introduction to No-code and ecommerce tools

With advancement in technology, no-codes tools are becoming a hit. No-code or less-code tools allows any user to get their website live and working as soon as within a week, and with practice – within a day.

What are No-code tools?
No-code or low-code tools are software that allow user to build a website using a simpler interface. (you can think of it as a much-more advanced version of WordPress).

The difference between WordPress and other major no-code tools is that the new tools allow advanced features for tracking website analytics, manual code can be added to make the interface appealing, faster deployment of new feature and the user experience to be well-researched.
This gives a competitive edge over competitors with traditional approach and a safer-faster route to get product-market fit.

Research on No-code and other ecommerce tools

Trying different tools to find the right fit for ecommerce, tools tried:

Framer: Great for designing and publishing website, but complex for someone with non-designing background.
Shopify: Perfect fit for ecommerce but plans are pricey for starting businesses.
Typof: Similar to shopify with pricey packages.
ReadyMag: Limitied features, hard to scale in future.
Dukaan: Great Features available for starting and free plan also available. (Choose to work with this)
Wix Studio: Good features for starting with affordable plans, started working with this also.