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e-commerce is ridiculously hard - I say that as someone who built a company and an e-commerce platform. It looks pretty straightforward on the surface, but when
by madaxe_again 6y ago
e-commerce is ridiculously hard - I say that as someone who built a company and an e-commerce platform. It looks pretty straightforward on the surface, but when you start getting into discounts, into merchandising, into shipping and volumetric calculations, into tax calculation and distribution centre section, into CRM, into despatch management, into refunds and exchanges, into internationalisation, into segmentation, into all of the myriad intricacies and business rules that have to work every time, in every weird scenario, at scale, with five nines of uptime, you are deep in a world of hurt.
It’s hard to do it properly. I mean, we somehow managed, but we managed to do everything else wrong.
- Axsuul 6y agoInteresting! Can I ask what your platform is?
- madaxe_again 6y agoSure. Was - both my business, and their platform. I left after ten years 4 years ago. Since then, it seems the platform has taken a back seat. The resource with the most info that I can find is a review over at https://ecommerce-platforms.com/ecommerce-reviews/blubolt-reviews https://ecommerce-platforms.com/ecommerce-reviews/blubolt-re... . No idea if they ever did the planned admin console rewrite. It was built in flex way back when, because reasons - mostly security sandbox for sensitive data that kept it away from potentially contaminated admin browsers.