The Out N' About Walks Store - Byte Tank
Ever since 2017 I’ve made at least one long walk or hike per week. I love walking, and shared that passion by organizing several walks via meetup, eventbrite, in my local community, in my company, and with friends.
I’ve accumulated a fair amount of miles under my feet and progressively built a catalog of favorite trails, and an opinion on what makes for an enjoyable walk.
I think many others could benefit from this knowledge, hence why I’ve opened the Out N’ About Walks Store , which is crystallization of all the above, where you will find detailed routes , videos , descriptions and hints about my favorite walks.
Setting up shop
I’m really happy with how the store nicely fits on top of all of my investments and further compounds them, rather than being a distraction.
I’ve opened this shop in a single weekend morning. No exaggeration. The process was:
Go through the latest meetup walks that I’ve organized, and gather routes, videos, images and descriptions for each.
Buy the domain getoutnabout.store from namecheap, which turned out to be a bargain.
The store was meant to be simple: upon purchase, the customer should get all the information for each walk. I could build it from scratch myself and host it, but instead I went hunting for services that could do this for me
First I tried Shopify, did the initial setup, but soon started to see that this was way too complicated and way too expensive for such a simple digital store. I can see the value this brings for merchants with complex flows, but this was not suitable for me. Too much overhead.
Tried to find some alternatives, and eventually found Payhip. It was perfect for my use case. Setup is incredibly quick. There is little to no bloat, it is free, and the customer experience is streamlined.
Configured the Payhip store and added my initial products, and connected it to the getoutnabout.store domain.
Since each product required a deliverable, I’ve opted to create the deliverable by putting all the necessary contents in a markdown file, then used a VS Code plugin to export it to PDF, uploaded it as part of each of the Payhip’s products, et voilà, I had a fully functioning store.
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