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Ethercycle
Company blog · ethercycle.com/blogbusinesswebdesign
Ethercycle is the company blog at ethercycle.com, writing about business, web and design. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on making money from small-business web design as an example of a Shopify channel-partner design business. The comment is about the business model, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ethercycle is a Shopify-only ecommerce consultancy for independent private label brands. As early Shopify Experts and hosts of the Unofficial Shopify Podcast, we solve costly growth problems and turn stable stores into revenue machines.
What Hacker News says?
The best business model I've seen to service small businesses is to become a channel partners with Squarespace/Shopify/Wix/whoever, charge a fixed rate, and then optimize the hell out of your process to increase your margins. Here's a few off the top of my head: Shopify: https://ethercycle.com/ Squarespace: https://knapsackcreative.com/
Comment linking /
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