Shed Shred

Tillkit started as the store I built for my own shop, then became a template you host yourself. Until this week it was $79. Now the core store is free.

Why: I don't think the basics of selling online should sit behind a paywall. If you can run a $5-a-month server, you should be able to run a real store and own every line of it.

Tillkit Lite (free): storefront, cart and guest checkout, Stripe payments (cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay) and pay by invoice, sales tax at checkout, customer accounts, order emails, and an admin for products and orders. Two themes, eight color presets.

• GitHub: https://github.com/storefront-ki...

• One-click deploy on Railway (store plus database, about $5 a month): https://railway.com/deploy/tillk...

It's nearly midnight in California, and in a few hours Tillkit goes live here on Product Hunt.

Picture a small shop at closing time. The register drawer slides shut, the receipts are squared away, and there's no platform bill waiting at the end of the month. That's the feeling we built Tillkit around.

Hi everyone! I run a small online shop and got tired of paying a platform every month, so I built our own store and turned the code into Tillkit: Stripe checkout, sales tax, inventory from supplier invoices and profit reports, self-hosted for about $5 a month.

I'm here to learn from other makers, especially anyone who has launched a paid developer product without an audience.

What's one thing you wish you'd done before your first launch?