Speaker: Elvis Saravia
Organizers: CSIA NTHU
Venturing into Social
E-Commerce Platforms
The kuailist.com story
/omarsar
/kuailist
ellfae@gmail.com
Founded: iBelmopan (2010) - "Marry Data and Design"
Profession: IT Auditor (2010 - 2015) - "Fraud Detection"
Founded: Kuai List (2015) - "Listing made fast, social and free"
www.kuailist.com
"Everybody is searching for something"
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"
&
EXPERIENCE
Gamification, sign up forms, concurrency, messaging &
mailing, attachments, threading, payments, ...
1. Secured
2. Easily Accessible
Totally depends on your requirements
3. Convenience
4. Scalable
"A window of opportunities"
1. Some API documentations are toooooooo loooooooong...
2. Test any API for practice sake
3. Build your own API
"Being rejected twice doesn't mean giving up"
"I seriously mean it!"
"Always make a move with a strategy"
1. Building your own libraries and making them public
2. Participate on StackOverflow
3. Share and Collaborate your projects and code
"Learn by teaching"
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"