Topic

E-Commerce

6 articles

Why Salesforce Failed a Luxury Watch Retailer — and What We Built Instead
E-Commerce7 min read

Why Salesforce Failed a Luxury Watch Retailer — and What We Built Instead

A UK luxury watch and jewellery retailer tried every major CRM. None of them understood their business. Here is what we found when we replaced them with a purpose-built system, and what 30% year-on-year revenue growth actually looked like in practice.

Gaurang Ghinaiya

Gaurang Ghinaiya

June 10, 2026

How We Cut Product Image Costs by 80% for an E-commerce Seller Processing 1,500 Images Per Week
AI6 min read

How We Cut Product Image Costs by 80% for an E-commerce Seller Processing 1,500 Images Per Week

A UK-based e-commerce seller was spending three days and significant labour cost between photo shoot and live listing for every watch in their inventory. We built an automated image pipeline that reduced per-image cost by 80% and eliminated the backlog. Here is the architecture and what it actually cost to build

Gaurang Ghinaiya

Gaurang Ghinaiya

May 6, 2026

Amazon and eBay Sellers Do Not Own Their Customers
E-Commerce5 min read

Amazon and eBay Sellers Do Not Own Their Customers

When you sell on Amazon, you rent access to Amazon\'s customers. The platform owns the relationship. Here is what customer ownership actually requires — and how to build it

Gaurang Ghinaiya

Gaurang Ghinaiya

May 5, 2026

Shopify Plus vs Custom Commerce: When You've Actually Outgrown the Platform
E-Commerce4 min read

Shopify Plus vs Custom Commerce: When You've Actually Outgrown the Platform

Shopify is an exceptional platform until it isn't. Here is how to diagnose when your e-commerce business has genuinely outgrown it — and what building custom commerce actually costs and delivers.

Gaurang Ghinaiya

Gaurang Ghinaiya

April 29, 2026

The AI Feature Your E-commerce Platform Actually Needs (It Is Not a Chatbot)',
AI4 min read

The AI Feature Your E-commerce Platform Actually Needs (It Is Not a Chatbot)',

AI chatbots are the most visible e-commerce AI implementation and usually the least valuable. The highest-ROI AI applications in e-commerce are invisible to the customer — they run in the background and make every other part of the operation more efficient.

Gaurang Ghinaiya

Gaurang Ghinaiya

April 3, 2026

The Post-Sale Engineering Playbook: How to Turn First-Time Buyers into Repeat Customers
E-Commerce4 min read

The Post-Sale Engineering Playbook: How to Turn First-Time Buyers into Repeat Customers

Most e-commerce engineering investment goes into the purchase funnel. The retention opportunity — the point after the first order where a one-time buyer either becomes a repeat customer or disappears — is almost always underdeveloped

Gaurang Ghinaiya

Gaurang Ghinaiya

March 11, 2026

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