🧱 Drag-and-drop anywhere in your store, works with any theme 👩🏼🎨 Design and build new components + experiences ✌ Integrate with existing 3rd-party services 😋 Collaborate with your team on design + code + content
@rahul_shah Great question! There are lots of page builders in the Shopify app store, but most require you to create new pages (or import them): Alchemy works out of the box with any page so it's super easy to put a product upsell right into your existing blog article, for example (all without changing your Shopify theme)
Also, Alchemy integrates tightly with your store's data, so it's super easy to make text or a button dynamic (e.g. only display text if cart is above a total order value) - we've heard feedback that this kind of thing is super hard in existing page builders.
Thanks @robjama for hunting us!
👋 Hi ProductHunt! We’ve been thinking a ton about no-code while working on e-commerce products @ Facebook, Uber, and Yelp. We’re super excited to share what we’ve been working on with Alchemy.
Problem:
😭 E-commerce brands are stuck paying a ton for developers or navigating the pandemonium of templates, page-builders, clunky apps, and last decade’s web technology
😤 Teams can’t deliver the experience and content they want because existing themes and apps aren’t extensible and don’t talk to one another
👀 “Headless” solutions force brands to spend months replatforming and require developer hand-holding
How Alchemy can help:
1️⃣ Alchemy is the first no-code storefront builder that integrates into your existing Shopify store and favorite 3rd-party apps with minimum effort (no re-platforming required)
🎨 Design and launch completely customizable experiences from landing pages to complex add-ons like polls, bundles, and subscriptions
☎️ Connect everything through a single API — Read/write data from Shopify, CMS, and dozens of integrations; program logic and workflows without code
🌎 Our goal is to make e-commerce easier for makers. Anyone can build and share plug-and-play components built on Alchemy
Thanks for stopping by! If you work with a brand or you're interested in learning more, email me at noah.w.gilmore at gmail.com or DM me on Twitter for virtual coffee!
Congrats @zhuyxn and @noahsark769 on Alchemy! Having worked with a few friends on designing and launching a Shopify store virtually, "Collaborate with your team on design + code + content" is super exciting to me!
Tysm for the support! Starting and managing a Shopify store can be super overwhelming.
Having started a drop-ship business previously, one thing that would have really helped us was being able to collaborate with my team in and out of "code". Even as a developer, if I wanted to update copy, I didn't really wanna mess with code/templates 😬
The most critical thing for us to fit seamlessly into a team's existing workflow, and anyone (marketer, developer, designer) can feel empowered to build
Thanks again to @robjama for hunting!
I got really into e-commerce while drop-shipping for local SF brands before COVID. I knew what I wanted my store to look like, but it was really hard figuring out where to start (even as a developer).
Every app or page builder I downloaded looked a little off or was kinda-sorta what I wanted. Could something have the ease of Figma and the power of Shopify?
There’s been a ton of great discussion in the comments, but a few core values I’ve been thinking about
Give control back to brands — A website is the most valuable real estate online. Brands should be able to make it look and work the way they want
Build a community — When I started, I had zero idea on what I was supposed to do (do I buy a theme, do I install an app). We want to make e-commerce more accessible, so we pre-built a ton of UX components that work on any store. Teams can share components they build, and we’re hoping everyone will be able to choose from a library of thousands of production-tested components and workflows
E-commerce first — There’s a ton of no-code tools out there to build websites. We wanted to be 100% focused on helping makers sell online, while still leveraging everything they already use on a platform like Shopify (email, fulfillment, etc)
If you’ve got any thoughts at all on the project, don’t hesitate to reach out - yuxin ~ AT ~ getalchemy.app
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Awesome product—super valuable for brands that want to move fast and avoid paying expensive developers. Excited to see what else this could integrate with in the future!
@eugenehp absolutely, in fact we’ve already got that in development! One of the ways you’ll be able to make Alchemy components dynamic is based on the cohort of whatever AB test the user is in. Also, all Alchemy components come with analytics out of the box, so even if you’re not AB testing, you can check conversion rates of buttons etc with 0 clicks (frequent request we got from users)
@sanchit_bareja1 Good question - we want to enable building pretty much any web experience with Alchemy, but two examples that have worked well with the users we're prototyped with:
- Dropping a product upsell into an existing SEO/CMS page, for example having a recipe page where you sell one of the ingredients. This component can be dropped into any page and configured easily for a different product relevant to the recipe
- Building promotional launch pages for new products: we've talked with users who want to promote new product launches with a different experience than a their theme's PDP (super useful for advertising campaign landing pages), and Alchemy allows them to do this really easily, without having to edit the theme code. Users can even build interactive components like carousels etc on these pages!
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