I found out about something called a PWA Builder. Like the app store but for progressive web apps. As your Djangify store is a progressive web app you can add it. I have no idea whether it will generate people saving the site and/or becoming buyers/signing up to email but app stores help app builders get found so no reason why a PWA store couldn't do the same. It recently accepted Djangify and Self Talk Effect is being looked it. It failed a few days ago because they didn't like the image I attached. It was just a screenshot of the site. So I got AI to make me an image instead and resubmitted it. Let's see what happens. Its free to join the Microsoft PWA directory but there is a fee for Google and Apple. https://www.pwabuilder.com/

ChatGPT helped me see the errors of my ways this morning. I am going through sales training that has me looking at offering just one thing. I am making it self-hosted Djangify. I always thought Djangify was great and now I am definitely putting my energy into selling it. One reason I hesitated even in January this year was the support element but AI has moved so much in such a short space of time that I have literally been able to create this so there is virtually no or very little support needed from me personally. I have skills files and AI can run the whole thing. This is now an AI Assisted ecommerce system UNDERVALUING WHAT I AM SELLING. Right now I have the self-hosted version for sale at £97 and chat said... I am becoming more confident that £97 is too low as the intended long-term price because you have now removed what I thought was one of the major barriers: Previously I thought: Self-hosted software + technical installation + substantial human support burden That puts downward pressure on price because you are selling something difficult to use while potentially creating a support nightmare. What you've actually built: Self-hosted software + comprehensive documentation + AI-assisted installation + AI-assisted troubleshooting + optional managed hosting That's much more interesting. You can tell people: Don't try to do everything yourself. Use AI as the operating partner for your one-person business. There is an even bigger commercial opportunity here I think the message isn't: "You can self-host Djangify if you're technical." I think it could eventually become: "You don't need to know how to code. You need to know how to work with AI." That is a very different market. And it fits what you're doing personally. You are already running your one-person business by using AI as your assistant rather than hiring people for every task. You have effectively discovered: AI makes software ownership accessible to a much larger group of people. That is actually a compelling reason for Djangify to exist.

There is an option for people to own the Djangify eCommerce system outright. Pay once and you don't have to pay the monthly managed hosting fee. You get to manage it all yourself. I don't promote this right now because it will mean supporting people with setting it up. But now, Claude Skills.md to the rescue. Not sure why this has only occurred to me now! Every purchase includes a DEPLOY_WITH_AI.md file, which is a ready-made setup guide you paste into Claude or ChatGPT to turn it into a patient, step-by-step deployment assistant. It walks you through the whole thing in order: your server, the .env file, generating your keys, starting Docker, putting HTTPS in front, logging in, and adding your Stripe keys and first product. One step at a time, waiting for you before it moves on and it never asks you to reveal a password or secret key. A free Claude or ChatGPT account is enough to follow it. Because a full setup is a long back-and-forth, a paid plan makes the session smoother. Prefer a hands-on tool that reads your files and runs the steps with you? There's also an optional Claude Code skill that does exactly that. That path needs a Claude Pro plan or higher. Between the included written documentation and your own AI assistant, you have a guide for every step - you're never left staring at a terminal wondering what's next. Interested in owning your own eCommerce system... https://www.djangify.com/shop/product/self-hosted-digital-ecommerce-platform/

Topic Cluster pages are important for SEO and being found for the main keywords that you want your site to rank for / search-led content (people who type in a keyword into search). They support you in getting known as the expert for a particular topic (in the image examples I used the keyword "sell digital products" to explain how it works). If I want to rank for that keyword on Djangify this is what I need to set up. I already use topic cluster pages on Inspirational Guidance. They are usually long pages full of information that show off your knowledge on ONE topic / keyword. When they are written well they will show up in the search engines and be used in AI results. You create the page and then create blog content that links from the cluster page to the blog post and the blog post back to the cluster page. Here is an example on inspirational guidance https://inspirationalguidance.com/journaling-personal-growth Each section links out to an article and each article links back to the page They are hard work to set up because you need one main article and several other articles written and connected but they are worth it. Plus as an expert in your field this will all be based on your knowledge AND if you really wanted to you can use AI to help you write some content and adjust it to fit your brand/voice plus add your own unique story to it. TOPIC CLUSTERS ON DJANGIFY I have added this to djangify.com - under PAGES. You create a new page and select Topic Cluster. You can then answer all the questions on that template and it will create a page that looks similar to the journaling page I shared.

SHOPIFY GOT MORE EXPENSIVE IN APRIL. IF YOU ONLY SELL DIGITAL PRODUCTS, HERE'S THE ALTERNATIVE BUILT FOR THAT. Shopify put its fees up again in April 2026. Online card processing went to 2.9% plus 30 cents, with another 0.6% added for premium cards and 1% for anything international. The Basic plan went from $29 a month to $39. That's on top of the 2% penalty Shopify still charges Basic plan sellers who use a payment gateway other than Shopify Payments. That's why searches for "Shopify alternative" spiked hard worldwide the same month, and have kept climbing in the UK specifically ever since. I checked this myself rather than just repeating it, more on that below. Here's the problem with almost every "Shopify alternative" list you'll find. They're written for someone selling physical stock: inventory tracking, shipping zones, warehouse integrations, return labels. If you only sell digital products, PDFs, guides, templates, courses, none of that applies to you. You end up paying for, or configuring around, a mountain of features built for a business you don't actually have. That's the gap I mean here. A Shopify alternative built for people who only sell digital products, not one more generic list built for people shipping boxes. WHAT I BUILT DJANGIFY FOR I built Djangify because I sell digital products myself, and I was tired of paying a platform built mostly for people who ship boxes. Inventory tracking, shipping calculators, warehouse plugins, none of that has anything to do with selling a download. What's actually in my eCommerce builder is a checkout, secure digital delivery, customer accounts, a blog, SEO built in, and AI tools to help you run it. You can run it two ways. Self-hosted: one payment, you own the complete source code outright, and you never pay a platform fee again. If you can ask AI (I prefer Claude Code) to do something and follow the steps it gives you, you can do this yourself. The setup guide is written for exactly that. Managed hosting: I run the server for you for a flat monthly fee, still with zero commission on what you sell. You pick a name, complete checkout, your shop is live in minutes.