March 27, 2026 ·
Last few days I've expressed desire to ship physical products from this website. I just made it happen. Though that's not the best part, the best part is I was able to bypass Stripe, Coinbase, Gumroad etc. while at it; not needed at my scale. But it's not like there are zero dependencies; I depend on my computer, which depends on already-built software and libraries; and I'm using two APIs, Resend for emails and Shippo for logistics, plus Ethereum for transactions. It cost me about 2 hours of my time and $25 in Claude Opus tokens.
This is the type of aspirational cypherpunk duct tape technology that impresses nobody. To someone on the street, I imagine, this is pointless complexity for not that much return. Or any return. Why not just use Stripe? Well, I wanted to. But they ask too many questions. So many questions. Over, and over. I don't care for it. As a parallel tinker, my thought was to also give Stripe's new blockchain Tempo a test run. Nope'd out of that one quick.
The product for now is a simple happenstance re-sell from my recent curiosities and post office visits, acts I and II. It's very cool to me that I now have self-owned infrastructure to sell both digital and physical products on here without any serious dependencies. Good way to spend Friday morning. Wonder what it will evolve to in the future.
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