Venturing into Social
E-Commerce Platforms
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From a researcher's perspective
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/omarsar
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@ibelmopan
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elvissaravia.com
Disclaimer: The following presentation is a very non-technical one
Who I AM - in a nutshell
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/omarsar
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Doctoral Researcher, Web Developer, Founder, Designer, Blogger, Open-Source advocate and a proud first-time dad.
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@ibelmopan
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elvissaravia.com
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mOTIVATION and VISION
Without motivation and vision it is impossible to create something with value
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State of E-Commerce
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As I said, research is important
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COMMERCE IS A SOCIAL action
-- by default
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Is there room for one more?
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kuailist.com
Fact 1 : Everybody is searching for something
Fact 2: Buying and selling should be fun, fast and easy
The Kuai List Platform
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Amazon RDS + Cloudfront + S3
Python Worker
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Cloud - PaaS
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Increase productivity and shipping of code
(NLP)
TIPS
&
EXPERIENCE
There is a Gem for everything!
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Gamification, sign up forms, concurrency, messaging &
mailing, media management, threading, payments, ...
Where to store my Data?
1. Secured
2. Easily Accessible
Piece of cake - think again!
3. Convenience
4. Scalable
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lISTEN and QUESTION
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I seriously mean it!
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First Mover advantage
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Always make a move with a strategy
Giving back to the Community
1. Building your own libraries and making them public.
2. Participate on StackOverflow
3. Share, Document and Collaborate your findings.
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Learn by teaching
What's next?
1. Analytics
2. Scaling?
5. Machine Learning to improve categorization & recommendation
4. Improve content delivery and discovery (AI)
6. Crowdsourcing solutions
Once you've started, the possibilities are endless
CONCLUSION
The best part
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/omarsar
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@ibelmopan
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elvissaravia.com
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