We're a small, early-stage startup. We don't have a big team. We don't have a lot of money. We are, in essence, the underdog. We depend on friends and community to help us, inspire us, and lead us. "It takes a village" is an old adage that would be applicable…
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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 @shoptalk, we're announcing our v1.0.0 GA release. We're…
3,000 Stars
We reached 3,000 stars on our main Reaction Commerce GitHub repo! Thank you to our community for all the feedback and support. We're just getting started!…
This is Focus (Year Three Startup Thoughts)
Last month, we celebrated the three year anniversary since we started Reaction Commerce. For those following along, I wrote “This is Hard” about the first year, and “This is Interesting” about year two. For me, year three was all about focus, but before I get into some of my lessons…
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 as potential customers of yours, but then we imagine that…
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 my mind, open source equals free, so you really have…