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How Tyashin compares
There are five common ways to get a business online. Each is genuinely the right answer for someone. Here is where each one shines, where it starts to hurt, and how we think about it differently.
We compare approaches, not companies — no vendor names, no scoreboards.
DIY website builders
Drag-and-drop templates you assemble yourself.
Genuinely good if you need a few brochure pages and nothing more. Cheap and quick to start.
You tend to outgrow them. Deeper SEO control is limited, real commerce and automation arrive as paid add-ons that stack up, and the page format is proprietary — leaving means rebuilding.
Tyashin gives you a real Next.js codebase in a repo you own, with commerce, CRM and AI already part of the platform rather than bolt-ons.
An agency or freelancer
Someone builds a custom site for you.
The right call when you need bespoke design or complex, unusual functionality and have the budget for it.
Timelines run in months, costs are front-loaded, and afterwards you depend on them for routine changes. The growth work — SEO, content, chat, analytics — is usually a separate ongoing engagement.
You get a professional, fast site without the wait, and you can make everyday changes yourself from the admin panel.
AI prototype and site generators
Tools that generate a beautiful front end from a prompt.
Excellent for exploring a design idea quickly and showing something convincing to stakeholders.
The output is often client-rendered, so search engines struggle to index it. There is usually no real backend — no payments, no orders, no CRM — so it stays a demo rather than a business.
Tyashin is built for exactly this handoff: bring that prototype, and we turn it into a server-rendered, indexable site wired to payments, CRM and support.
A fully custom build
In-house or contracted developers building on a framework of your choice.
Maximum control, and the right answer when your product genuinely is the software.
The highest cost and longest timeline, and the work never really ends — hosting, security patches, integrations and performance all become your ongoing responsibility.
Tyashin gives you most of that control — real code you own — while the platform carries the infrastructure, integrations and maintenance.
Selling only on marketplaces
Listing your products on someone else’s platform.
Instant access to an existing audience, which is a real advantage when you are starting out.
You are renting the customer relationship. Commissions compound, the audience belongs to the marketplace, and none of the search or brand equity accrues to you.
A Tyashin storefront builds your own channel — your domain, your SEO, your customer list — and works alongside marketplaces rather than replacing them.
At a glance
| Common approaches | Tyashin | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to launch | Days for a template; months for a custom build | Days, including migration of an existing design |
| Found on Google & AI search | Varies; prototype tools are often barely indexable | Server-rendered, with sitemap, canonicals and structured data by default |
| Payments | A separate integration, or region-limited | Razorpay for INR (UPI, GST, COD) and Stripe worldwide, detected automatically |
| AI features | Third-party add-ons, priced and managed separately | Chatbot, SEO Co-Pilot and auto-blogging built in, each with a free tier |
| Making everyday changes | Depends on a developer or agency | Admin panel for content, catalog and posts; code access when you want it |
| Ownership | Often a proprietary page format you cannot take with you | Real Next.js in a GitHub repo you own, with exportable data |
When Tyashin isn't the right fit
If you need a single static landing page and nothing else, a simple builder will serve you fine. If your software is the product and needs a bespoke architecture, you want a custom build. And if you are only testing whether an idea has demand, start with a marketplace listing and come to us once it does. We would rather tell you that up front than sell you the wrong thing.
Not sure which one you are?
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