The next stage of the journey was moving Strylez to Shopify.
When I started exploring Shopify, I realised that it already had almost everything I needed to run a proper ecommerce business.
Things like products, shopping carts, checkout, payments, orders, customer management, shipping, and so many other ecommerce features were already there.
That made the process much easier.
Instead of spending my time building the entire ecommerce infrastructure from scratch, I could focus on what I actually wanted to make different.
So I started building my own Strylez website template, using one of Shopify's free themes as the foundation.
I customised the design, changed the structure and started shaping it around the Strylez brand and the virtual try-on experience.
Then came one of the more technical parts of the journey.
I had already built the virtual try-on functionality on my original website, so I needed to migrate that experience into the Shopify theme.
It wasn't simply a matter of copying and pasting some code.
I had to understand how Shopify's theme architecture worked, how the product information was structured, and how to connect my existing try-on functionality into the new shopping experience.
Eventually, I got it working.
Now I had something much closer to a real ecommerce business:
Shopify handling the ecommerce infrastructure, and Strylez focusing on the virtual try-on experience.
For me, this was an important lesson.
As a technical person, it's tempting to build everything yourself.
But entrepreneurship isn't necessarily about building everything from scratch.
It's about knowing what you should build yourself, what you should leverage from others, and where your unique value actually is.