Proliferating the Point of Sale: Using APIs to Unlock Local Commerce

by David Bloom @ Apistrat NYC (Feb. 2013)

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1. Golden Age of Commerce
2. Open platform for restaurant ecommerce
3. Transactional APIs and other developer tools
4. Hard lessons learned
5. Informational Closed Come to me Transactional Shop with me Open Go to them Shop with them
6. Apps everywhere
7. Build a complex app Deal with payments Handle profiles Manage lots of data Acquire inventory Keep inventory fresh Acquire customers Provide service
8. Crowds, not people
9. Tyranny of the bell curve
10. Build a complex app Deal with payments Handle profiles Manage lots of data Acquire inventory Keep inventory fresh Acquire customers Provide service
11. Acquire customers Imagination
13. Informational Closed Come to me Transactional Shop with me Open Go to them Shop with them
14. Viability of the Long Tail Tyranny of the bell curve
15. Geography reimagined
16. Platform as product
17. Inventory
18. Fulfillment
19. Payments
20. Unsexy operations
21. Fast, easy & fun
22. Clarity
23. POS ubiquity
24. POS variety
25. Context
26. Chat ordering
27. Content
28. Newspapers
29. Totally personal
30. Give up control
31. A rotten apple
32. Shop with me.
33. 5% share
34. Shop with you.
35. 65% share
36. Whole orchard
37. Infinite opportunity
38. Golden Age of Commerce
39. david@ordrin.com @ordrin 646.522.8414