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Would you have any advice to share for someone working on building an online store / e-commerce system for small businesses (not a marketplace, one a store coul
by henvic 6y ago
Would you have any advice to share for someone working on building an online store / e-commerce system for small businesses (not a marketplace, one a store could conceivable pay as a SaaS solution or deploy themselves with no strings attached - not even through licensing)?
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoSorry, I worked on this stuff so long ago that no advice I could offer today about technology is relevant. Back in 1994, we worked in C++ and used Oracle directly and loaded our shared object into Netscape Server. AFAICT, nobody in their right minds works this way today. In addition, we had to invent a whole new way of doing what was essentially mail order - there were several mail order packages available in 1994, but all of them were predicated on the notion that you either had stuff in stock, or were going to order a bunch more so that you had it in stock. Amazon was different: in the early days, we had essentially nothing in stock, so we had to invent an entirely new way of managing order flow and stock management.