The Spree Vision (SpreeConf - Dublin 2012)

Slides from my presentation on "The Spree Vision." In the talk I discussed what the vision for our company was and why it matters to us.

Transcript

1. The spree vision Sean Schofield @uberzealot
2. E-Commerce is Too Hard
3. What about sellers?
4. Sean Schofield "Online commerce is not for noobs." Text Anonymous
5. Empowering the world’s Sellers
6. why are we doing this?
7. WE like helping people and solving interesting problems
9. ACME Print Company • Family owned business • Traditional print company • Outdated distribution model
10. Not an actual photo of Tom
11. “We are prepared to spend up to Tom
12. STicker mule
13. Consulting doesn’t scale
14. we want to help hundreds of thousands of stores
15. It will be a huge challenge
16. But we can do it!
17. The elites controlLED publishing
18. The printing press
19. The open source era
20. Embraced by big media
21. powering the next wave
22. e-commerce is becoming democratized
23. Limited Distribution
24. Best case scenario
25. the open source era
26. big companies
27. powering the next wave
28. Good progress but ...
29. it’s still too hard
31. no coding necessary
32. Easy product import
33. integrated shipping
34. What does this mean for developers?
35. What does this mean for the open source project?
36. more of the same • Same Great Code • Same Great Community • Completely Open Source • No Enterprise Edition • 100% Free
37. spree will benefit
38. spreeWorks will benefit
39. more improvements coming
40. not everyone will be supportive
41. “Good luck riding the bull!” David Heinemeier Hansson
42. “Please do not use the phrase 'ecommerce platform' on your website.” Some Crackpot
43. We’re going to stay focused on our vision
44. empowering the world’s sellers
45. diana assenmacher
46. mountain shadow beads
47. the next step
48. what’s your vision?
49. empowering the world’s sellers
50. why do you do it?
51. help people
52. solvE interesting problems
53. “The new site is perfect ... I’m so happy.” Diana Assenmacher