Web hosting giant claims you can now sell online without a website – and its new tool can help you do it
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Hostinger’s “sell without a website” push is another step toward commerce abstracted into link-in-bio, chat, and social surfaces. For small merchants, the question shifts from “which platform?” to “who owns my customer graph and payments rails?” — design your stack so you can move that later.
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