Solidus Roadmap
Alberto Vena
Gregor MacDougall
Market Trends
Market Trends
Admin
- Headless CMS
- GDPR
- i18n
- Reports (sales/user activities)
Market Trends
Business Growth
- Voice search
- Subscriptions
- Social Shopping
- Chatbots
- Mobile Friendly/App
- Modern Payment Methods
- Automating Operations
- Omnichannel
Market Trends
Tech
- PWA
- JS Front-End
- API-driven (mostly GraphQL)
Market Size
Market Size
Last updated on April 11th, 2019
Market Size
Market Size
# companies x max(range of revenues)
(Optimistic)
# companies x min(range of revenues)
(Pessimistic)
Market Size
Market Size
Average Solidus stores revenue
Market Size
How?
- Our clients
- Surveys
- Online financial statements
- Owler.com data
We are only considering stores that do 100% web sales
Average Solidus stores revenue
Market Size
Current Solidus adopters are in a market zone that has a lot of opportunities.
No resource to compete with <$1M platforms.
We are not doing wrong.
It's ok to target big stores.
Which features do they want?
Do big stores start as <$1M?
Free Rambling
Competitors
Competitors
Direct
Open-source; No Saas; code-quality centered; active community; custom-ecommerce-centered
- Spree
- Shopsys
- Saleor
- ReactionCommerce
- Sylius
- Workarea
Indirect
Got a pricing model for custom eCommerce/Saas; plug-in system; straightforward retail experience
- Shopware
- Shopify
- Magento
- Prestashop
- Woocommerce
- BigCommerce
- Squarespace
- Salesforce
- Spryker
Competitors
Competitors
We can't consider everything!
How do we choose?
Competitors
features.each do |feature|
if Competitor.indirect.with(feature).size > 4 or
Competitor.direct.with(feature).size > 1
feature.take!
end
end
Competitors
Examples
Competitors
Examples
Communicate Success stories/case studies
indirect: 9
direct: 4
👍
Competitors
Examples
Multisales channels and omnichannels
indirect: 2
direct: 0
👎
Competitors
Competitors
Examples
Free Trial/demo on the website
indirect: 4
direct: 1
👍
Competitors
Examples
Theme Store
indirect: 7
direct: 0
👎
Survey Results
Roadmap Tasks
Market Trends
Market Size
Competitors
Survey Results
Roadmap Tasks
