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DIY Surveillance

Platform

A consumer-facing surveillance equipment store built on Magento 2 with a Hyvä front end — a full catalog, a custom dropship fulfillment module, and a content library of roughly 96 how-to guides driving organic acquisition.

Category: E-Commerce Type: Storefront + custom modules Status: Live

Overview

DIY Surveillance sells NDAA-compliant surveillance equipment direct to consumers and serious DIY installers — a different audience from the dealer wholesale channel, requiring its own catalog, pricing, and content strategy.

The storefront runs Magento 2.4.8 Open Source with a Hyvä child theme for front-end performance, hosted on Cloudways. It shares infrastructure with a second, entirely separate store, with isolation enforced at the app-user and search-index level so neither can affect the other.

Most of the surface area is content rather than code: roughly 96 how-to guides, category-level SEO copy, and 12 use-case landing pages, all managed as CMS entities and deployed through scripted, idempotent changes rather than hand edits in an admin panel.

Key Features

Tech Stack

Magento 2.4.8 Hyvä Theme PHP 8 MySQL Elasticsearch Cloudways DigitalOcean

Architecture Highlights

96+
How-to guides published
Hyvä
Modern front end on Magento 2
Dropship
Custom supplier fulfillment module
Isolated
Two stores, one shared server

Live

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