A couple of month ago, I wasn't planning to build an e-commerce platform.

A friend of mine is a fashion designer. He was preparing to launch a new collection and needed a website. At first, it sounded like a straightforward project: a storefront, product pages, checkout, and some content around the collection.

So I started building.

Like many side projects, the first version was supposed to be temporary. I thought we would launch the collection, make a few sales, and move on.