🚀 I Built a Dropshipping Automation Pipeline — Here's What I Learned (and What I'd Do Differently)

So, a few months ago I got curious about dropshipping — not as a "get rich quick" scheme, but as a real engineering problem. Inventory syncing, pricing algorithms, order routing, supplier APIs... turns out there's a surprising amount of code you can write in this space.

Here's my honest breakdown.

The Setup

I built a small pipeline using Node.js + PostgreSQL that:

Pulls product data from multiple suppliers via their APIs