I have been a fan of hn for a long time. I spent a lot of time lurking and then finally made an account. I have found a lot of the startups getting launched on or through this site as inspirational. I am not a programmer but I do consider myself a hacker. I am originally from Russia but now live in the US. This is my third business and my first online business.<p>I did all of the design and setup of artisurn.com myself using shopify. I would appreciate any feedback or tips from the community on any way to improve on what I have created.<p>I feel that the funeral business is ripe for disruption and I've chosen to start in the cremation urns category as a proof of concept. So far things have been moderately successful. I'd really appreciate any feedback. Thanks!
congratulations on your online business, I see some people don't like these sites here because you are not a Solo founder using some cool language or library. I admire your drive to setup a business online. One suggestion would be to reach out to pet cremation companies and offer them a catalog of your products so that they can recommend them to their clients. I had a pet parakeet die recently and I would've loved to have a nice box where to put his remains instead the boring and sad looking box I got. I would've paid good money for it and I know people love their pets.<p>Keep up with this great idea, add more entries in your blog and good luck to you .
"So far things have been moderately successful."<p>Please share your sales figures.HN would appreciate the insight. Your product is fascinatingly different.
I sincerely fail to understand how the listing of this site here in any way supports a supposed 'hacker ethos' or is 'disruptive' to a specific industry.<p>If I was only a tiny bit more cynical I'd presume you were merely fishing for linkage.<p>Best of luck to you in your business, of course — you've done a solid job re-styling Shopify. I just don't get what's HN-relevant here.