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Meet Reaction v1.0.0: Our General Availability Release!
Big news! Today, we're announcing the General Availability release of Reaction Commerce. We're now officially out of Beta, and while we've always been open (source), we're open for business! Here's my first-ever tweetstorm announcing our v1.0.0: Today at
They’d Just Build Their Own Solution
When I was out pitching Reaction Commerce to attract potential Venture Capital financing earlier this year, I got this rejection, and it still irks me: “We see an opportunity to capture those merchants (on legacy platforms) who grow too big
Open Source and Business
When I told friends I was starting a company that was building an open source commerce platform, they asked me how I would make money giving away software for free. Then, when we were fundraising, a Venture Capitalist said, “In
Part 2: Reaction Commerce: A Powerful Leap Forward for Ecommerce
As we discussed in Part 1 of my series on ecommerce, there’s a major disruption on its way. Businesses and developers are seeking new platform innovations; the technology base is shifting toward cross-platform, cloud-based infrastructure that existing ecommerce platforms
Part 1: Ecommerce is Heading Toward a Major Upheaval (and Reaction Commerce is Ready to Fill the Void)
According to eMarketer’s forecast, global ecommerce sales will increase by over 20% this year to reach $1.5T. In today’s retail market, there’s a massive shift toward ecommerce. And it means that retailers have an opportunity to
Will Native Apps For Ecommerce Go the Way of the Dinosaur?
Recently, I traveled with my Ongo Works team to San Francisco for the Meteor Dev Shop meetup where we spoke about two products we’re building on the Meteor framework, Reaction Commerce and Launch Dock. The first is an ambitious