Arijit Dutta
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Drupal for
Product Startups
A Smart Choice
Lets Introduce ourselves
About Srijan
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India’s largest Drupal company
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100+ Drupal and QA experts
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Spread across multiple offices
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Growing number of Acquia certified Drupal engineers
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Among WorldBlu's most democratic workplaces 2009, 2010
Starting from the beginning
- Get an idea
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Enroll people
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Build working prototype
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Hit the target audience
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Receive feedback
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Improvise towards MVP
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Hit the market again
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Repeat above 3
Birth
Childhood
Adolescence
Phases of Products' lifecycle
Let us explore Drupal and all its powers
*Cliche, I know
1. Takes you to the market real fast
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Capable of handling features like
- content entry forms,
- user management,
- user roles,
- creating blocks,
- managing content,
- commenting,
- menus,
- custom urls etc
OUT OF
THE B X
2. Numerous contributed modules available
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29,471 Modules
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2,103 Themes
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Popular market features like
- commerce carts,
- facebook like likes,
- payment gateways,
- multi-language,
- vote up-down etc
are available as plug and play modules for free
3. Many distributions available
> 900 distributions available
But wait...
Doesn't other CMSs provide these options too?
Why Drupal then?
1. Site Building
Extremely configurable through the UI
PROTOTYPE
FIRST DRAFT
PLATFORM
EXTEND
2. CMS + ~CMF
Capable of wearing the Hat of a framework
Entrepreneurship is not an area of expertise,
it is an area of infinite
But wait...
What about scaling and performance?
Powered by Drupal...
- weather.com
- whitehouse.gov
- wwe.com
- economist.com
- cartoonnetwork.de
- mtv.co.uk
- many more...
...and there is HEADLESS Drupal
Backend
Frontend
REST API
Guess what...
There are modules in Drupal that will implement
REST API for you
So you can just
REST
Scaling the architecture
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Web interface
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User management
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Content entry
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Notifications
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Blocks
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Search
Case Study: Moneno.com
The concept
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Among the 10 products featured in NASSCOM's Product Launch 2011
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Reviewed by NextBigWhat(formerly pluggd.in)
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Invited for showcase in Techniche 2012, IIT Guwahati
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Official feedback partner for Ad:Tech for an event in Banglore
Initial Response
Main Features
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Separate login for users
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Ability to create questions
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Option to allow only restricted group invited by emails to answer the question or make it publicly available
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Customized homepage and static pages
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Answer counts with each question
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User dashboard
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Displaying answers in a weighted tag cloud with number of answers directly proportional to font size
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Black listing keywords, marking spam
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Built prototype in D6 in 14 days - from learning Drupal to successful internal demo - without writing any line of custom code
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Rolled out first draft in a week with additional features
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Ported application from D6 to D7 over a weekend
- Till the launch at NASSCOM's product conclave, application was running only on contributed modules
Built with Drupal
Enough for the day, any questions?
Thank you
Drupal for Products
By Arijit Dutta
