I spent 3–4 months building a full-stack ecommerce platform. Next.js and Supabase, custom admin d...I spent 3–4 months building a full-stack ecommerce platform. Next.js and Supabase, custom admin d...
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Kelvin Ohemeng
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• Aug 15
I spent 3–4 months building a full-stack ecommerce platform. Next.js and Supabase, custom admin dashboard, Paystack payouts, CMS, auth. All of it.
Then I stopped.
Almost all of that time went into the backend and the admin side. The storefront, the part anyone actually sees, and the part I care about got whatever was left over.
The problem was never difficulty. It was scope. I hadn't decided up front whether I was prepared to give yea:rs to it, and I wasn't.
So I cut it down to the one piece I actually wanted. Shopify already handles inventory, variants, carts, discounts and checkout, there was no reason to rebuild any of that. What didn't exist was a way to design the storefront in Framer without a plugin deciding how it looks.
A week to a working MVP. A month to the marketplace.
Three to four months on the version nobody saw. One week on the version people use.
That's anopa, now free with no product syncing limits and nothing behind a tier: https://www.framer.com/marketplace/plugins/anopa/
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