Behind the Best Storefronts

Keynote talk from SpreeConf 2014
Feb 27, 2014 - New York, NY

Transcript

1. Behind the Best Storefronts SpreeConf 2014, NYC
2. Sean Schofield CEO & Co founder of Spree Commerce, Inc. ! Twitter: @uberzealot Github: schof
3. I do not look like this
4. This is more like it!
5. “I love your transparency”
6. I’m not crazy.
7. Welcome Back
8. Our First Conference February, 2012
9. Our Fourth Conference
10. How’s the Wifi?
11. Anybody Here From Cuba?
12. Any PHP Developers?
13. Momentum
14. Let’s Practice Clapping
15. Spree 2.2 Released
16. Spree 2.2 Highlights ➡ Major adjustments to refactoring ➡ Caching improvements ➡ Rails 4.0.3 (Latest) ➡ Ruby 2.1 (Latest)
17. Go Daddy Partnership
18. Go Daddy Partnership ➡ Spree performance and scalability ➡ Thousands of additional Spree stores ➡ Contributions to open source “core” ➡ Focus on multi-tenancy !
19. Spree Editions & Multistore
20. Spree Editions & Multistore ➡ Multiple stores on a single server ➡ Perfect for hosting multiple international sites ➡ Each site has it’s own products, languages, currencies and prices https://github.com/spree/spree_editions/ https://github.com/spree/spree_shared/
21. New $5M Investment
22. We spent all of it on this!
23. New $5M Investment ➡ Continued support for Open Source ! ➡ Accelerate development of the Spree Commerce hub ! ➡ New investors have significant e-commerce expertise
24. Connect to Any Storefront
25. Connect to Any Storefront ➡ Any version of Spree ! ➡ Any custom storefront ! ➡ Any proprietary e-comm platform
26. What’s Coming Next?
27. You’ve Asked for It ➡ Major refactor of returns and exchanges ➡ Credits ➡ Group discounts ➡ Integrations … lots and lots of integrations
28. We Remain 100% Committed to Open Source
29. Storefront Still 100% FOSS ➡ Over 11,000 contributions from nearly 500 contributors ➡ Contributions in open source have increased by 500% since our initial investment ➡ We’ll be putting more full time people on the open source project and support
30. Customers == Contributors ➡ Bonobos (tons of core contributions) ➡ Surfdome (editions, multi store) ➡ GoDaddy (API, performance, etc.) ➡ Ninefold (performance tools)
31. More OS with the Hub ➡ All the integrations will be open source ➡ Complete access to the integration source code with the ability to customize to taste ➡ Integrations will be easier to maintain on a standard platform
33. VISION What are we doing?
34. Empowering the World’s Sellers
35. Open Source is All About Empowering People
36. ➡ Saves you time ➡ Easy to customize ➡ Fix your own bugs ➡ Higher security (a.k.a. Transparency) ➡ Superior Innovation
37. Closed Source is Safe “You can keep your bugs around … like pets.” Jeff Cassimir
38. Open vs. Closed
40. How can we compete?
41. Let’s ask their customers “Netsuite is so ridiculously powerful and fantastic in concept. The execution of it is so bad it makes you want to throw up. “ Amanda
42. Let’s ask their partners “I know exactly what Amanda is talking about, and I'm not even an 'end user'. I'm one of the poor schmucks who has to DEVELOP for this piece of bloatware …The documentation is poor, incomplete and inconsistent. The 'helpdesk' is a joke“ Andy M.
43. Friends don’t let friends integrate with Netsuite They are trying to solve an important problem but they’re executing poorly
44. Netsuite “Integration” Netsuite Netsuite Netsuite Netsuite Netsuite
45. How We Look at Integration
46. This is How We Win 50,000 lines of code by 500 developers
47. This is How They Lose 8,200,000 lines of code by 8 developers
48. Empowering the World’s Sellers
49. PURPOSE Why we are we doing it?
50. We enjoy helping people and solving interesting problems.
51. “Thanks, I really appreciate it. It means a lot that you would go out of your way to help your users like this.”
52. “With the help of Spree Commerce , and a very talented developer [REDACTED], we've grown our business to nearly $15 MM in sales. Your software has been instrumental to our growth and I wanted to say thank you. ”
53. “What I especially liked is the fact that everyone genuinely loves your platform (this is very unusual). I thought I understood what open-source meant, but I did not really understand it until now.”