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2026
Vintage Cowboys
A self-hosted South African e-commerce store built on PocketBase, where every item is one-of-a-kind.
Overview
Vintage Cowboys sells single-unit vintage stock, so the usual quantity-based inventory model does not apply That constraint drives the whole backend: items move through `active` → `on_hold` → `sold`, and the store has to hold an item for the buyer who is mid-payment without ever stranding it if they abandon the flow.
Checkout reserves inventory server-side and hard-rejects with a 409 if any item in the cart is already sold or held by another buyer's fresh order. Payment goes through Yoco, whose webhook is signature-verified with a constant-time comparison and a replay window, and is idempotent.
The frontend is a React and Vite SPA with guest and authenticated checkout, coupons, and Google Places address autocomplete; Resend handles transactional email. Everything runs self-hosted on a single VPS — nginx serves the built SPA and proxies to PocketBase container.
Highlights
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Every piece is one of a kind, so stock is reserved the moment a checkout begins — two buyers can never end up with the same item
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Self-hosted end to end, with a staging environment that mirrors production and deploys that run themselves