Speaker: Elvis Saravia
Organizers: CSIA NTHU
Venturing into Social
E-Commerce Platforms
The kuailist.com story
Who Am I?
/omarsar
/kuailist
ellfae@gmail.com
Highlights
Founded: iBelmopan (2010) - "Marry Data and Design"
Profession: IT Auditor (2010 - 2015) - "Fraud Detection"
Founded: Kuai List (2015) - "Listing made fast, social and free"
State of E-Commerce
Is there room for one more?
www.kuailist.com
"Everybody is searching for something"
mOTIVATION
yAY!!! demo time!
The Kuai List Platform
Postgresql
Python Worker
Cloud - PaaS
...
Framework: Ruby on Rails (v. 4.2.1)
Package Manager: RubyGems
...
DBMS: PostgreSQL
Migrating to: Amazon RDS
Image Repository: Amazon S3
...
Hosted on: Heroku
A platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build and run applications
entirely in the cloud.
...
Front-end Framework: Bootstrap
A framework to quickly build interfaces
in a few lines of code.
.form-group
= f.input :body, input_html: { class: 'form-control'}
= f.button :submit, class: "btn btn-primary"TIPS
&
EXPERIENCE
There is a Gem for everything!
Gamification, sign up forms, concurrency, messaging &
mailing, attachments, threading, payments, ...
Where to store my Data?
1. Secured
2. Easily Accessible
Totally depends on your requirements
3. Convenience
4. Scalable
Every service comes with an API
"A window of opportunities"
1. Some API documentations are toooooooo loooooooong...
2. Test any API for practice sake
3. Build your own API
Facebook Graph API
Facebook Graph API Policies
"Being rejected twice doesn't mean giving up"
lISTEN, lISTEN, lISTEN, ...
"I seriously mean it!"
First Mover advantage
"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 and Collaborate your projects and code
"Learn by teaching"
What's next?
1. Analytics
2. Scaling?
5. Machine Learning to improve categorization & recommendation
3. Groups (for store owners)
4. Improve content discovery
6. Crowdsourcing solutions
"Once you've started, the possibilities are endless"
Q&A
deck
By Elvis Saravia