Your Next Store - AI-first platform for building commerce stores, fast

@alina_petrova3 Thank you! Yes we use Stripe exclusively and that's actually a feature, not a limitation. Because we're fully committed to one payment provider, we can go much deeper than platforms that treat payments as just a plugin.

A good example is Product Subscriptions it combines the actual subscription logic, a customer portal, and cadence management into one seamless experience. That's only possible because we can lean fully into the Stripe API rather than working around compatibility constraints.

More features like that are in the works. 🚀

@christian_onochie Great question and honestly one of our core design decisions. You get full access to the storefront codebase, no strings attached. (and the storefront code base is entirely open source)

A lot of our users are software agencies and design studios and they pushed us hard in this direction. They need complete control over design, animations, and presentation, and they should have it. Unlike tools like Lovable, we deliberately don't vendor lock you to our chat interface. The storefront is yours: clean Next.js code, built with a curated set of best practices you can actually build on.

we're also working on dedicated flows to make the agency-client handoff even smoother.

@zambrzycki thanks! The last few months were pretty intense + a lot of tooling changes and new workflows to figure out. We've been experimenting with a bunch of different approaches, but things are clicking into place now. And velocity should only go up from here! 🔥

@avz Yes, we built YNS on Vercel and Stripe from day one specifically so it scales automatically as volume grows. A good example is rePebble, which hit the top of Hacker News twice with a big Reddit community piling in at the same time. The platform handled everything just fine, with one minor hiccup in a Redis service unrelated to YNS core.

@listsgenie we're relying heavily on Stripe to do that for us! Stripe offers dynamic currency rates conversion which is the simplest way to allow your customers to pay in another currency of their choosing. Stripe also offers Tax – which is what we're using to dynamically calculate taxes for different countries, states etc.

Shipping methods are also already localized – you can define different prices and methods per countries or groups of countries.

We're also working on allowing merchants to provide different product prices in different currencies. That's WIP and we'll release it soon.

@tomik99 so @rauchg once shared with us the story of Twilio early pitch: the idea that a small set of well-defined operations could represent most telecommunications flows just by composing them. That stuck with us.

That's exactly the direction we're heading with YNS. Commerce notions and flows are actually well understood, the hard part is chopping them into the right units that can be universally and cleanly composed. Nail those primitives and you get something that scales beautifully both for humans and agents.

That's the challenge we're focused on!

@angolin64 Managing multiple stores on behalf of clients from one place is actually our primary focus. We're actively talking to agencies and adapting to that particular workflow. Recently we introduced an «agency layer» (not AI related 😅) for exactly that and we're running a few pilots. Still rough around the edges but we iterate really fast. If you're interested in a pilot, let me know!

@german_merlo1 Thank you, really appreciate it! A few people have asked something similar. We actually have one dropshipping-like integration in the works right now. Do you have any specific APIs in mind? Would love to make sure it covers your use case.