[joelrunyon]

Company I consulted for had 12 engineers, spent millions and 18 months to build some niche custom e-commerce solution.

They were burning money and about to go belly up.

We spend 3k on shopify plus some outsourced shopify engineers to get 95% of their solution in ~4 weeks with zero engineers.

Turned the company around and ended up doing a M/A 2 years later.