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Potential client once asked for a clone of Amazon, for $5000, in one month. I did not take the project.

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  • 2
    But the website itself is terrible. Wrong reviews, fake reviews, prices that change as your progress to payment page, incorrect filtered results. I can imagine the back-end of that website is a dumpster fire. Only holding together because they throw hardware resources at it.
  • 2
    No one understands scale. Not just its impact on throughput but on feature sets. Chances are, your random customer's pet amazon for their 100 person company is in fact a small bespoke web shop, they just don't see the difference.
  • 0
    could've just copied the template and linked it together (No backend). The client would've been easily fooled and boom 5K in the bank! Cha-Ching!
  • 3
    Should have just deployed shopify with a bit of customisation, easiest $5000 of your life
  • 1
    @jestdotty @devRancid they had some pretty specific requirements in terms of how they wanted to be built. Including a self hosting requirement.
  • 2
    Thank God the client did not ask for you build AWS šŸ˜‰
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