How I Built SirPhire — A Production-Grade PHP eCommerce Platform from Scratch
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Introduction — Why Build Your Own Platform? I've been a backend developer for over six years. I've worked with WooCommerce, Shopify, and Magento — and every time, I felt like I was fighting the platform instead of solving the business problem. They're brilliant products, but when your requirements diverge even slightly from the happy path, you end up deep in plugin hell, monkey-patching template overrides, or paying for enterprise tiers you don't need. So I built SirPhire — a fully custom, prod