Ask HN: Best boilerplate project to start up my mom's online catalog?

2 points by notsag-hn 5 years ago | 4 comments

Hey all! Some time ago my mom set up a small store to sell her hand made baby bags, beds and clothes. Now she's ready to move to the next step to have her own web catalog on top of social media to show a bit more her work. As a former full-stack and current back-end developer I know why I don't like doing front-end, so I thought of using a boilerplate project for setting it up.

Have you ever used any light-ish boilerplate project, hopefully in node + react/vue for something similar? The idea is to have a way of uploading new products with pictures, with no need for online shopping for now, it should have also responsive design.

Any other recommendation of a similar tool using a different stack would be also appreciated!

Thank you!

dvt 5 years ago |

You should consider Shopify, Etsy, or even something like Ebay or Amazon. There's absolutely no reason to reinvent the wheel here. Ecommerce can be a real can of worms.

notsag-hn 5 years ago | |

Hi, dvt. Thank you for your answer! I should have clarified that this for now it's a low-scale project in a country where eBay/Amazon/Etsy are not widely used and that her budget for this is very low, I will be hosting the web catalog on an existing server of mine, and that initially it wouldn't require to provide any ecommerce capability other than showing the catalog.

wtracy 5 years ago |

Seems like you're asking for a CMS. Drupal or Joomla would probably meet your needs.

notsag-hn 5 years ago | |

Hi, wtracy! I was thinking of something lighter than the well-known CMSs. Just a boilerplate project with some really basic CMS capabilities. Maybe I should do it myself hah