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Zapier or Make vs a custom integration: the break-even
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Where Zapier or Make stops making sense and a custom integration pays off: how task billing works and five criteria to decide, plus when not to build.

Shopify now allows 2,048 variants per product, up from 100. Here is what still pushes stores past the limit and when workarounds or custom make sense.

How to scope an MVP: pick one user and one job, test the riskiest assumption, make a cut list, decide what to buy instead of build and what must be real.

A checklist of what to demand from a software agency so you own your website or app: repository, hosting, domain, keys, licences, handover and exit terms.