The Warren in downtown Pittsburgh. One side is a dive bar; the other side is a wine and beer shop that's staffed by sommeliers. They also have the largest supply of indie wines in the state.
Hey dragonsh — you left a comment on my submission a while back about e-commerce data models and it inspired us to write a post about nosql and hybrid e-commerce data models. Here is the nosql one (https://resources.fabric.inc/blog/nosql-ecommerce-data-model). The hybrid one is coming soon. I will delete this comment soon as it is not relevant to this thread.
I've written similar pieces about leaving jobs in the past. Since then I've stopped. For some reason publishing them was never fulfilling. I think a simple journal entry would have sufficed. I was just in need of clearing the air and forgiving people. In hindsight, a public forum wasn't the best area for doing that.
I turned part of my personal site into a membership site for aspiring remote workers.
On the membership landing page is a free signup. You get access to a 12-lesson course with tutorials and tactics I’ve used to land three FT remote jobs in my career.
The upsell was group coaching. Some people got excited about this. Only a few people paid.
I learned that unemployed people are not usually willing to pay for a service (especially if there are no video testimonials).
I’m confident that if I persevered this could have become something but I lost interest. Many people are still registering for the membership. I may return to the project soon and find a way to turn the content into a paid, self-paced course—-without paying for SaaS.
- Similar to cloud, no code is not a category itself, but rather a shift in how users interface with software tools.
- In the same way that the cloud democratized the purchase and deployment of software, no code will usher in the next wave of enterprise innovation by democratizing technical skill sets.
- No code is empowering business users to take over functionality previously owned by technical users by abstracting complexity and centering around a visual workflow.
My pleasure. Cooperpress.com has an awesome suite of newsletters, too, and their editors are pretty responsive. However, they only cover technical content related to webops.
Another good tactic is to find newsletters that cover the type of content you are creating, reach out to them, and say that you created something that might be good for their newsletter. To do this, I recommend using Google to find popular newsletters on substack and revue. Do a search like such as...site:substack.com [your content topic]. Contact the editors. Getting good content out their is the best way to build backlinks IMO.
We get the most backlinks to our site when we create an interesting technical post (example: https://resources.fabric.inc/blog/ecommerce-data-model) and share it on HackerNews and subreddits. For instance, that post I shared as an example hit the first page of HackerNews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25353148) and our backlink profile went from 100 to 218 backlinks in a matter of days. (We are a new site.)
"One summer, she collected bits of moss each time we went out and built a bank of it under the window where she would sit in bed and write. She could lay for hours like that, typing surrounded by books and snacks and pillows with the lights off. I never understood how she could write that way until after she was gone, and I no longer had the will to sit up straight."
From a technical standpoint you need to get off monolithic platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce, and even Salesforce and Oracle Commerce Cloud. These platforms stifle growth and present limitations for scaling.
What you need is something called a headless, mircroservices-based, API-first e-commerce architecture. A mouthful, I know. Fortunately there is some OSS and SaaS that makes adopting it easy. For OSS check out https://www.vendure.io/; for SaaS check out https://www.fabric.inc
The reason Amazon is able to scale so quickly and add new channels and features so quickly is because of their innovative technology and approach to technology management (e.g. two pizza teams).
You're right on the money. We are for businesses that have outgrown those platforms.
We don't surface pricing now. We need to keep our pricing flexible since we don't force businesses to purchase our entire platform like monoliths such as Salesforce and Oracle Commerce Cloud do.
Instead of purchasing Fabric's entire headless commerce platform/product package, many businesses purchase individual or a couple products to start. They integrate these into their existing systems, then purchase more products (SaaS) down the road and integrate those. This increases time to value and removes the need for a total replatform.
For instance, a multi-billion dollar company just purchased our PIM (https://fabric.inc/pim) to start. They also want us to help with system integration. The needs and use cases are just too varied to offer blanket pricing at this point.
This article did not explore that. However, order management systems by headless commerce platforms (not Salesforce) do a good job of handling this in an intuitive way.
We like to create content about alternative solutions and then plug our e-commerce SaaS. This is referred to as content marketing. As for the blogs and news articles you speak of, these platforms profit from subscriptions and ads. We profit from SaaS subscriptions. Everyone is advertising something. And that's okay. I hope you found this article useful.