Using a Template

This post was originally published on golifelog.com.

As I’ve written, I bought the shipfa.st Template. And although it looked good at the start, I’ve been working with it a few hours now, and I’m not sold.

Sure, I got stripe stuff up today and a basic “buy here” flow, but the Error handling is basically non-existent. The Code is good, but bare minimum. The synopsis of “shipping things faster because you don’t have to handle things yourself” just doesn’t work out for me. Of course, the template is there to generate money for the template creator, but for $199 I expected more.

So now I’m in the predicament if I should continue using the template or start over again and just use it as a reference to implement certain stuff. I’m still early in the project, so switching isn’t really a problem, but on the other side, should I really get rid of it? The perfectionist in me yells YES, really loud. As I know, I won’t be able to keep my quality expectations with the template.

One thing I learned again now, the hard (or expensive way), if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.